El Hackathon at #LATISM14
Education, Health, Business & the Latino Community
El Hackathon (/el/ ˈhakəˌTHän/) is a 24hr event for developers, entrepreneurs, innovators and designers to join forces and engage in collaborative computer programming. The goal is to introduce new technologies and concepts that solve problems for the Latino community or tap into the Latino market. El Hackathons is a launch pad for ideas, a place where developers, designers, entrepreneurs and curious folk can meet and build… Show more creative projects. We encourage you to develop fun projects that take into consideration issues revolving education, health, business in the Lationo community. You don’t have to be an expert developer to participate; you just need to have the drive to learn and play with code!
Tickets are for people who wish to participate and work on projects ONLY. If you are not working on a project please sign up to the LATISM conference here: http://conference.latism.org
Judges:
Felix Ortiz
Sal Mendoza
Giovanni Rodriguez
Mobile Future
Sponsor: Mobile Future
Call for Volunteers:
Want to help organize the Hackathon? Drop us an email to volunteer! oscar@minerapp.com
Prizes:
1st Place: $1,000
2st Place: $600
3st Place: $400
El Hackathon Rules:
1. Code
All projects must be programmed at El Hackathon. Code must be fresh and not pasted from previous projects. Frameworks (like wordpress, bootstrap, angular js, processing/arduino etc.) or APIs (google,facebook, instagram,foursquare, twitter, etc.) to speed up development are highly encouraged. Make sure you list which frameworks were used. Prior to El Hackathon you may work on your logo, wireframes, design, idea validation, mockups, you name it. But no coding beforehand.
2. Code Review
Hacker teams will be subject to a code-review to ensure everything was built at the hackathon.
3. Remember this is a hack!
Feel free to use any frameworks, hosting service, languages, tools, workarounds, tricks or shortcuts you’ve discovered over the years to help you build quicker.
4. Teams
you must have at least one other person in your team to participate, no robots allowed as your only teammate. Ideal team size is 3-4 people. Robots, androids and other “chatarras” can tag along if they really want.
5. What to Build
Execute a unique idea around our theme; community, health, education and business.
6. Intellectual Property
Ownership of I.P. and code belongs to the team that created it. Your team has full ownership of your product and are free to do as they wish with it.
7. Submissions
We will be using a hackathon.io to organize and list project for review. A group of judges will take a look at all the projects and make a decision based on your project demo.
8. Last and Most Important Rule
HAVE FUN! It’s El Hackathon! A chance to experiment, collaborate and socialize for the sake of creativity and innovation.
Schedule:
Thursday, Nov. 13th
6:00 PM: Doors open
7:00 P M: Intro and Welcome
7:30 PM: Share you idea, refreshments, recruit a team! (1 min each)
9:00 PM: Hacking Begins
Friday, Nov. 14th
9:00 AM: Breakfast
10:00 AM: Hacking continues
1:00 PM: Tutorials on building a Database, Wordpress, Bootstrap etc. (optional)
1:15 PM: Social Good Lunch
2:30 PM: Workshops by sponsors
3:00 PM: Workshops by sponsors
4:30 PM: Workshops by sponsors
4:30 PM: Cafecito Break
5:00 PM: Snacks
6:00 PM: Hacking
7:00 PM: LATISM Gala/ Dinner (optional break)
Rest of the night: Hacking
Saturday, Nov. 15th
8:30 AM: Breakfast is served
10:00 AM: Status update & word from sponsors?
10:30 AM Submit Hack Presentation
11:00 AM: Hack submission closed
11:30 AM: Presentations begin
1:00 PM: Winners Announced
1:30 PM: Demos to #LATISM14 Conference audience (3 min each)
3:00 PM: Hackathon c losing remarks & networking
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