MountainHacK

Code of conduct

MountainHack Participant agreement

By entering in to the MountainHack hackathon you agree to abide by this Code of Conduct. Our hackathon is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of the following:

  • Gender
  • Physical appearance
  • Age
  • Disability
  • Body size
  • Race
  • Ethnicity
  • Nationality
  • Religion
  • Previous hackathon attendance or lack of
  • Computing experience or lack of
  • Chosen programming language or tech stack

We do not tolerate harassment of hackathon participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate at any hackathon venue, this includes the following:

  • Hacks
  • Talks, presentations, or demos
  • Any parties associated to the hackathon
  • Social media
  • Any other online media

Hackathon participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the hackathon at the discretion of the hackathon organisers YSDA (Young Social Development Actors) .

Judging Criteria

Teams will be judged on these four criteria. Judges will weigh the criteria equally. During judging, participants should try to describe what they did for each criterion in their project.

  • Technology: How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components?
  • Design:Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface?
  • Completion: Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted?
  • Learning: Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before?

These criteria will guide judges but ultimately judges are free to make decisions based on their gut feeling of which projects are the most impressive and most deserving.

So don’t worry about coming up with the next big idea or building the next Facebook. You’ll have plenty of time for that outside the hackathon, just focus on learning, having fun, and making new friends. At the end of the day the skills you learn and the friends you make might lead to the next big thing—but you don’t have to do that to win a hackathon.

Code licence

During the MountainHack competition, all repositories are made private and are only accessible by the member of the teams and the judge of the competition. At the end of the events, all the repositories will be made public and the code produced will be available under The MIT License.

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