This year’s hackathon is about contributing to open source projects. Over the course of 24 hours, teams will find an open-source project that interests them and ideate, implement, and present a contribution to the project. If you are new to open source, don’t worry! We’ll be hosting workshops and sessions to help get new hackers introduced to open source and the process of making a contribution.

This hackathon is limited to undergraduate students at UC Berkeley.

Sign up for the hackathon here: https://ieee.berkeley.edu/hackathon-signup.

Join the discord here: http://ieee.berkeley.edu/hackathon-discord.

• Technology
  How technically impressive was the hack? Did the team tackle a difficult technical problem or use a clever or complex technique to address the issue? Were you impressed by their contribution?
• Design
  Did the team put thought and effort into the user experience? How well designed is the contribution’s interface? For example, websites will be judged based on consistency in styling or how easy they are to navigate.
• Completion
  Is the contribution functional? Does the contribution do what it is intended to do? Does the contribution improve the overall project?
• Learning
  Has the team shown growth? Did they learn something from the process? Did they experiment with technologies they haven’t used before?
• Open Source Best Practices
  How effectively did the team apply open source best practices? Including, but not limited to: use of pull requests, branches, reviewing each other’s code, writing a comprehensive README or modifying the existing one, and using issues to track tasks.
• Presentation
  Did they clearly communicate the motivation behind the project? How well did they respond to the Devpost prompts?