El Hackathon 2015 - Washington D.C. #LATISM

El Hackathon 2015 - Washington D.C. #LATISM15

Igniting the Latino Community to Drive the Innovation Economy.

El Hackathon - The National LATISM Hacking Marathon (Hack-athon); a 40hr event for developers, entrepreneurs, innovators and designers to join forces and engage in collaborative computer programming. The goal is to build a "Hack" over the duration of the hackathon and introduce new technologies or 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 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!

 

Attendence is FREE for people who wish to participate in the Hackathon.

El Hackathon is part of the #Latism15 conference. Hackathon participants do not need a conference ticket. You just need a laptop a great idea and the energy to work for 40 hours on your project!

To find out more about the #Latism15 conference, go here:

http://conference.latism.org/register/

We will host the event at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington D.C.

 

LOCATION:

The Comference Conference Room (The LATISM Hackathon Room)

JW Marriott Hotel in Washington D.C.

1331 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest

Whashington, DC 20004

 

Prizes:

1st Place: $2,000

2nd Place: $1,000

3rd Place: $500

 

More prizes are on the works, stay tuned!

 

Prizes by MongoDB : Two MongoDB World 16 tickets

 

Prizes by Consumer Reports : Electronics and Subscriptions!

 

 

Also Participating: 

 

FEMA | Homeland Security.

 

 

 

Schedule (Subject to change):

Wednesday:

6:00 PM: Registration 

6:30PM: Hacker Welcome

7:00pm: Hackathon starts. Networking and team building

8:00 PM: Snacks

Rest of the night:  Hacking

Thursday:

9:00 AM:   Breakfast

10:00 AM:  Hacking continues

11:00 PM:   Collaboration Session

1:00 PM: Lunch

3:00 PM:   Workshop

4:00 PM:   Workshop

4:30 PM:   Cafecito Break

5:00 PM:   Snacks

6:00 PM:   Hacking

7:30 PM:   Dinner - LATISM Gala Awards (optional)

Rest of the night:  Hacking

Friday:

9:00 AM:   Breakfast is served

10:00 AM: Status update 

10:30 AM   Submit Hack Presentation Open

11:00 AM:  Hack Submissions Closed

11:30 AM:  Presentations begin

12:30 PM: Presentations End

1:00 PM:   Winners Announced

1:15 PM:   Lunch

2:30 PM:   Top 3, Demos to #LATISM15 Conference audience (10 min each) 

3:00 PM:   Hackathon closing remarks 

5:00 PM: LATISM Closing Reception

Judges:

TBA

Judging Criteria:

Creativity
Design
Technical Ability
Impact on the Latino community (Value Proposition)

Call for Volunteers:

Want to help organize the Hackathon? Get in touch with Oscar on twitter to volunteer! contact @oscargt

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 TBA system 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.

Location: JW Marriott, Washington, DC