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As volunteers and developers of Wuhan2020 community, we would like to invite you to our Hackathon: Hack for Wuhan, on 6th to 8th March, 2020. Let us hack together against the global crisis.
We believe hackathon can not only inspire the next billion dollar unicorns, but also help unite mission-driven developers and innovators to combat an international outbreak crisis.
We are looking forward to the novel designs, prototypes, business or social impact models. We believe that all efforts will make a profound impact.
We will provide professional technical supports to your inspiration, and you will have the opportunity to work with mentors from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Andreessen Horowitz, GSR Venture, Google, Facebook, ByteDance and startups in Silicon Valley, China, and India.
Your every single effort for this fight against COVID-19 wherein all of us could keep the humanitarian spirits and open source values, can compose stories worth telling and precious memories to remember.
In this online Hackathon, you will team up with other participants to work out creative solutions which can help the fight against the current epidemic of COVID-19.
- To call on more people to participate and create works including product prototypes, coding, user experience design, and business or social impact models to combat the COVID-19 epidemic.
- To encourage social innovation so that we can help the fight against the epidemic with open source collaboration and hence create shared value among volunteers, institutions, businesses enterprises, and platforms.
- Timeline: March 6th - 8th, 2020
- Method: Online & remote working, distributed collaboration is recommended.
- Content: design and development competitions based on data provided by "Wuhan 2020"; submit works and pitch videos (idea, introduction, and meaning).
- Award: the participants and projects will be evaluated by the judges and the community, and the winners will be awarded.
General Theme: Solve Social Crisis and Challenges behind Coronovirus Epidemics with Digitalazation and Open Collaboration
Alternative directions include but no limited to:
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Data analytics, development, and product application related to the COVID-19 outbreak
- data annotation scheme
- data model construction
- data visualization
- product application
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Positive popularization and publicity for fighting against COVID-19
- Creation of video or music, etc
- Visual design (posters, articles, information graphs, etc.)
- Novel applications based on treaming or social media platform
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Outbreak rescue and disaster relief support and various other solutions to public crises
- Materials: Online hospital resource matching, disaster relief material identification, material dispatching, warehousing, logistics, scheduling, etc.
- Personnel: Detection plan, psychological first aid, contactless delivery, etc.
- Information: Information timeliness and transparent sharing, validation, e.g. blockchain based authenticity verification Open source information for charity and social welfare platforms E-commerce big data, data processing systems (such as online database connecting medical care, living, and materials) Personal information tracking (such as: GPS activity trajectory analysis, contact risk of infected areas, traffic trips, wifi hotspot tracking, etc.)
- Collaboration: cloud collaboration, personnel online and offline collaboration management solutions, etc.
Presentation of presented in a free way for open source works, including but not limited to:
- GitHub online submission of open source code or related links
- for open source works submitted via Github, please choose the open source protocol. For legal consultation, please * contact the conference committee for support.
- if the development data needs to indicate the uniqueness after submiiting to Github, please upload it to Zenodo and and * get the digital object identifier (DOI) identity from the platform. https://zenodo.org
- other guided commits
- Competition Process
Step | Topic | Main content |
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Step1 | Registration | Registration for Hack for Wuhan Registration Link |
Step2 | Join Wechat Group | Add wuhan2020 official assistant WeChat (18010625580) into the group, participate in warm-up activities |
Step3 | Project registration | Fill in the hackathon contestant registration summary form for project registration and teammate recruitment Link |
Step4 | Recruitment of teammates / mentors | Participate in lightning talks to gather popularity and free team + You can make an appointment for one-on-one coaching during the preliminaries (Slack team organizition) |
Step5 | Formal Development | Team development and completion of GitHub submission |
Step4 The Slack team organizition process is as follows:
- Add the official Slack workspace: wuhan2020,
- Then join the event public discussion channel: hack-for-wuhan
- In addition, each team member can set up their own dedicated channel in the work area.
Step5 GitHub submission process is as follows:
- Fork official repository to personal github repository
- Clone personal github repository to local
- Create a personal project folder under the local ChallengeProject folder, and place the submissions in the personal folder (use the name of your corresponding work). For details, refer to the following table:
Work | Type Submissions in Folder |
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Code works | Personal Github project link, etc. (Source code is placed in personal GitHub repository, for details, please refer to the introduction below) |
Other works | Links to works, etc. (for details, please refer to the introduction below) |
- Pull Request :Submit your work folder to the official repository
In addition to the work link, the submission of the work must include ppt, no more than 5 minutes of video, or various other magical forms to show your progress so far. (PPT content can refer to the following)
- Focus on verifying the solution and proving that your idea is worth continuing.
- Be sure to explain the technical feasibility and commercial feasibility, you can Freestyle!
- Business model: How are your products / solutions acquired by customers? What's unique and new compared to existing solutions?
- Technology prototype: software, hardware? In the final presentation, it is best to include a dynamic presentation (physical * display, product demonstration, animation, video, etc.)
- Industrial design, wireframe / sample
- Current progress (percentage) of works, difficulties encountered, and future plans
PS:
- If you have other questions, you can also add our official volunteer WeChat: 18010625580
- More Hackathon related FAQ
Topic | Time | |
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Phase I | Warm Up | February 28-March 5 (Beijing Time) |
Phase II | Preliminary Round | March 6-March 7 (Beijing Time) |
Phase III | Finals | March 8 (Beijing Time) |
- From February 28th to March 5th, participating in the online game "Hack for Shanghai Master Class", the big tutors interacted with the registered players by video.
- From February 29th to March 4th, the online "Lightning Speech", participants freely sign up, introduce ideas through a 3-minute passionate speech, and recruit teammates.
- On March 5th at 17:00, the deadline for registration of the team and entries. The wuhan2020 community will invite qualified teams to enter the preliminary round the next day before 23:59 on the day of the start.
- Observation team can speak freely, choose contestants according to preferences, and communicate with them
- Deadline of organizing teams and project submission: 5pm, Mar 5th 2020 Beijing Time
- wuhan2020 Community will invite eligible teams to attend the preliminary competition in March 6th
- Tutors open one-on-one coaching sessions daily, with participating teams making appointments in advance and interacting with participating teams online
- The preliminary contestants submit project works before 17:00, March 7, Beijing time. After the assessment, the mentor group will inform the teams that entered the final before 23:59, Beijing time.
- The preliminary tutor selects the winner to enter the final. The participating teams can discuss and answer questions through the WeChat group, Slack, RunTheWorld virtual space.
- The final team will start at 8: 00-11: 00 on March 8th, Beijing time with the mentor to polish the final speech or presentation plan
- The final team will perform the final roadshow at noon on the same day at noon from 12:00 to 14:00, and the judges will provide opinions on the spot.
- The awards will be antiques on March 8th from 14:00 to 15:00.
- 1 First prize
- 2 Second prizes
- 3 Third prizes
- Best Popularity Award (Tutor Favorite Team)
- Best Popularity Award (spectator's favorite team)
PS: We will match the Tianchi competition, IBM competition, and Agora competition to provide further incubation, acceleration, and landing opportunities for outstanding projects. In addition, Hack for Wuhan itself is a stage for you to directly face big coffee investors and outstanding entrepreneurs.
Participants include, but are not limited to:
- Developers from open source communities (such as Wuhan2020 and other communities on GitHub) who have ideas and prototypes that can solve current challenges and create shared value;
- Volunteers who want to increase social impact through open source;
- Entrepreneurs who actively tackle the challenges of COVID-19 and social crises.
Registration requirements for the teams participating in the prelimianry competition:
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Please fill in the following registration form with description of your idea/project.
- If you would provide more details , please insert a link to a self-established online document in the Links column.
- wuhan2020 Hack for Wuhan committee will review all the information provided.
- Link
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Each participant may initiate or intend to join multiple ideas/projects, but each participate should in only one team/project after the registration deadline(5pm, Mar 5th 2020 Beijing Time).It's preferred to provide members' resumes in Links colum.
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Ideas/projects with following information will be preferred:
- a clear description of the project background
- a cleasr description of the problem to be solved or user needs
- having some knowledge or research on custormers or markets
Targeted Participants:
- Anyone who are interested in and wanted to learn from this event.
- Individual and team participants;
- By invitation only - Judges, mentors, and professionals (entrepreneurs, social innovators, venture capitalists, etc.);
- Members of Judge Committee come from world-renowned technology or business companies or social innovation institutions and have big impact to their industries;
- Judge Committee will score all the projects and evaluate novelness, commercial or social value, and feasibility of them, and decide teams to be promoted and awarded.
Live time | Number of episodes | Themes | Content | Guests | Video links |
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2/27 20:15-21:15 | First | How to build a prototype from zero to one in three days.Google product manager has something to say | (1) How do overseas technical houses participate in material rescue after the outbreak? (2) How is PM developed in Google headquarters? <3> How to complete a new product model in 3 days? |
*Bigjoe *Xander |
Link |
2/28 10:00-11:00 | Second | Realize your brain hole in 72 hours.Product design logic & Data & sense of life. | (1) What new products have emerged from the epidemic? (2) How does a 72 hour product have a sense of life? (3)How does design affect product iteration from scratch? |
*Chun Jiang *Xander |
Link |
3/3 9:00-10:00 | Third | What kind of hack spirit and implementation style do hackathon need? | (1) In the competition, how should engineers help guide the team to steadily advance the Hackathon project? Recommended process? (2)How should engineers allocate physical strength in Hackathon? How are tasks assigned? (3) How should engineers cultivate product thinking? Are these abilities useful for competition and work? (4)What development style should engineers follow? What are the differences between Hackathon and normal work and school? |
*Han Chen *Qu xiaoyin |
- Anna Fang, Founding Partner & CEO at ZhenFund
- Connie Chan, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
- Eva Woo, China Program Manager, Stanford PACS
- Xuwen Cao, Partner of MiraclePlus
- Rick Zhuang, Ex-CTO, Tmall New Retail at Alibaba
- Xue Wu (Xander), Founder of Hack for Wuhan@wuhan2020
- Wei Wang, Founder of wuhan2020
- Chen Zhu (Jaggie), Ex-Director, Investoment & AI Product Development, ByteDance
- Frank Zhao, Ph.D in Tongji University and founder of wuhan2020
- Ted Liu, Cofounder of Kaiyuanshe
- Wen Han, GSR Ventures, Investor
- Huimin Lu, Microsoft Cloud and AI Strategy Sr Manager
- Klaus Wang, Sequoia Capital, VP
- bigjoe, Product Manager,Google
- Chun Jiang, Product Design @ Scale AI
- Han Chen, Software Engineer/ Blogger
- Xiaoyin Qu, CEO of Run The World
- Kate Jia, Sr Product Designer @devicebook, Product Lead of Wuhan 2020
- Anurag Yadav, Cofounder and CEO, PrimaFelicitas
- Jingjing Fan, Founder of Datawhale and founder of wuhan2020
- Yang Li, Founder of wuhan2020, AI engineer
- Tianyu Bao, Product Manager at Uber
- Matt Zhao, Google/Software Engineer
- Sean Wang, Facebook Software Engineer
- Claire Li, Pinterest, Sr. Software Engineer
- Tianyu Wu, Facebook Senior Product Designer
- Jason Gui, Vue Glasses CTO
- Borui Wang, Polarr, Founder and CEO
- Jack Duan, Gliding Eagle Inc., Founder and CEO
- Huan Xu, Serial Entrepreneur
- Xi Fang, Founding Partner of Button
- Peter Qian, covariant.ai, Head of Engineering
- Gordon Cheng, Wilson Sonsini, Attorney
- Thomas Reese, Tech Lead of Run The World
- Yuxi Feng, Software Engineer, Google
- Zhongze Liu, Software Engineer, Google
- Lizhong Chen, Senior Engineer, Redhat
- Shishuai Wang, Machine Learning Solution Architect, AWS
- Haimo Liu, Alibaba Cloud, Staff Product Manager
- Weili Dong, CEO, President
- Frederic, Cofounder of Coderbunker
- Mohammed Ben-Thaier, Software Engineer
- Samantha Christoff, Full Stack Engineer, InfoSec Idol
- Martin Bahr, Senior Team Lead
- Xuan Jiang,Cofounder and CTO of Run The World
- Cindy Cao, Didi,Senior Software Engineer
Thanks to the following companies who support Hack for Wuhan, click the link to check the resources and application method.
This software is under the MIT License (MIT).