Last week æternity has seen its first beta test of a decentralized hæckathon completely organized by our voluntary community supporters (æmbassadors) ! Here is a quick fact sheet:
- 3 weeks of active preparation time
- 6 æmbassadors = 6 locations (in Europe & Latin America)
- all of them secured physical locations, but only 2 had physical hæckathons due to short time for promotion and lack of physical participants on-site, so we turned it into an online hæckathon
- 20 teams signed up globally
- most teams were from Venezuela but couldn’t participate in the end because of the nationwide contingency plans to cut off electricity for over 3 days (still ongoing in most parts of the country)
You can find the detailed history of the online hæckathon in our dedicated telegram group: Telegram: Contact @haeckathons
Hamburg hæckathon
Online participants
São Paulo hæckathon
Participants from Venezuela
São Paulo hæckathon
São Paulo hæckathon
Winning contributions:
- Thiago Souza (Bitnation):
Pitch: Aeternity - YouTube
Prototype: Dapps/dbvn.sol at master · ThiagoVSouza/Dapps · GitHub
Prototype live demonstration: Dapps dbvn sol at master · ThiagoVSouza Dapps · GitHub Mozilla Firefox 08 03 2019 12 08 05 - YouTube
- Huascar Adolfo Miranda Martínez (cryptoanalisis):
Pitch: Aeternitiy hackathon pitch - Criptoanalisis.org - YouTube
Prototype: https://dev.criptoanalisis.org/
- Anton Sotirov (Oauth2):
Pitch: The proximity based “Oauth2 for mobile” - Google Slides
Conclusion
We will have more of these decentralized hæckathons this year, with more preparation time and more locations worldwide. These should be offline hæckathons, so we can have more face to face action and better results. Apart from a reward in AE tokens, future hæckathon winners will also get the chance to be invited for future Starfleet rounds (planned for Autumn 2019). In the meantime, we recommend all teams to keep building their æpps ideas on our business section in the forum: https://forum.aeternity.com/c/community/business-ideas
Special thanks to our æmbassadors @jcdelpino (Venezuela), Martín Restrepo (Brazil), @dawgio (Hamburg), @zkvonsnarkenstein.chain & @yasparuhov (Bulgaria), @Newocork22 (Ireland) and of course @lukaskywalker.chain and Valentin from the Starfleet team for their guidance and support!
