Goals & Judging Criteria

Goals

Solid hackathons are events that bring together a group of like-minded individuals, usually developers, to collaborate on solving problems or developing new ideas around Solid technologies. The goals of the hackathon include:

• Collaboration: The hackathon provides an opportunity for people from different backgrounds and with different skill sets to come together and work on a common goal. The event encourages teamwork, communication, and the sharing of knowledge and ideas.
• Innovation: The hackathon will be focused on bringing new ideas to life using Solid technologies. The goal is to come up with fresh and innovative projects that can be used to solve real-world problems using Solid libraries.
• Learning: Participants in the hackathon can learn new skills, techniques, and technologies by working with other skilled individuals. Companies involved in the Solid ecosystem can gather feedback from participants.
• Networking: The hackathon provides an opportunity for participants to meet and connect with like-minded individuals and potential collaborators. We hope these connections can lead to future partnerships.

Judging Criteria

• Best use of social networks (25 points): Points will be awarded to teams based on the quality of the integration with a social network technology or service.
• Most creative implementation (20 points): Points will be awarded to the team that comes up with the most creative and original idea for their project.
• Best use of community management and user choice (15 points): Points will be awarded to teams based on their incorporation of data and account migration tooling to allow users to identify and change among social networks and/or social network moderation and management tooling integrating Solid.
• Best use of linked data (10 points): Points will be awarded to teams based on their use of unstructured documents, such as text (md, pdf), audio and video files. Judges will be looking at the blend between unstructured and structured (linked) data in the solution.
• Best use of Access Control Policies and security features (20 points): Points will be awarded to teams based on their use of ACP features.
• Most scalable solution (10 points): This prize will be awarded to the team that creates the most scalable solution.
• Bonus and trivia (10 points): These points can be accumulated by teams during the hackathon by participating in fun activities.

Total: 100 points (110 with bonus)