Name: TM Forum Hackathon; Smart Citizens in a Smart City
Start: 2015-05-29T09:00:00.000-04:00
End: 2015-05-30T07:45:00.000-04:00
Location: TM Forum Hackathon; Smart Citizens in a Smart City

Official Rules for the TM Forum Smart Citizens Hackathon

Overview

The Hackathon is designed to showcase TM Forum’s API suite, as well as its ability to integrate various data streams and platforms
Hacking will take place between 1pm 29 May to 1pm 30 May. All submissions must be on Challengepost by 1pm, all times are CET.
Certain TM Forum Hackathon sponsors may also offer prizes during the Hackathon. We are not responsible for providing those prizes, and we do not have any role in the determination of winners
Sponsor and Administrator ● The Hackathon is sponsored and administered by TM Forum. 240 Headquarters Plaza, East Tower, 10th Floor; Morristown, NJ 07960-6628 USA
These rules were last updated on May 1, 2015.

Eligibility

The Hackathon is open to registered participants who are at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in the jurisdiction where they reside, whichever is older.
If you are an employee of a corporation, government agency, or an academic institution, you are responsible for ensuring that your participation in the Hackathon complies with any policies your corporation, agency, or institution may have regarding participation in contests of this type. We are not responsible for any disputes arising between you and your employer.

Registration and Check-in
- In order to participate in the Hackathon, you must register at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tm-forum-hackathon-smart-citizens-in-a-smart-city-registration-16678819799?aff=webpage by midnight CET on Tuesday, May 26th.
- You must also check-in onsite and in person at the Hackathon between 930am and 1030am on Friday May 29.
- A maximum of five eligible individuals will permitted per team. Your entire team must register as a team on ChallengePost by 10am, 30 May 2015. Pick your team members carefully because after this point, you will not be allowed to switch teams, or add or remove team members.
- You will be issued a badge on site that you must wear visibly while at the venue.

Entry
- You must submit your team’s Entry at http://tmforumhack.challengepost.com by 1 PM on May 30, 2015. Your Entry consists of:
- Your mobile App
  - App title
  - App tagline
  - App description (should be approximately 500 words);
  - App screenshots or image, with a maximum size of 5mb; format should be JPG, PNG or GIF
  - Git Commit submissions must be submitted as described in the section below.
- By submitting an Entry, you represent and warrant that:
  - Any code you supply for your entry was newly written
  - If applicable, any code that has been copied by you and included as part of your entry is publicly available in accordance with the General App Requirements below
  - You have fully complied with these Official Rules.
- We reserve the right to disqualify any entry that is offensive, as determined by us, at our sole discretion. Please ensure your Entry is appropriate for all viewing audiences.
General App Requirements
- You must create a mobile app using any combination of TM Forum, Fi-Ware, and Ericsson APIs and IBM’s Bluemix Platform. Except for publicly available code of the type referred to in the Other Technologies section below, all code submitted as part of your entry must have been newly written by you or your registered team members during the Hackathon. “Newly written” means that you cannot in any way copy code that already privately exists. The idea for your entry may have existed before the Hackathon.
- Allowed Technologies:

TM Forum and Sponsor Platforms and APIs
Other Technologies : You are also able to use source code, sample code, libraries, SDKs, and APIs as long as these technologies are: Publicly discoverable and available for public use in developing applications., and provided that such code or previous versions must (a) have been publicly available on the internet before September 1, 2014, and (b) be indexed and reachable through Google’s search engine, and (c) be easily accessible (i.e., anyone can download or access if signup is required, access must be granted within 3 hours).

We reserve the right to assess your eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules at any point during the Hackathon. If we require any assistance in order to assess your compliance, you must promptly provide that assistance. If you do not provide the requested assistance in a timely manner, or if we have reason to believe that you are not complying with the Official Rules, you may be disqualified, in our sole discretion.

Git Commit
- Each registered team will be required to commit their code to a public or private repository on GitHub between 12pm and 1pm on May 30, 2015.
- The Git Commit must include all source code of your app including CSS and supporting media
- If, for whatever reason, your team is unable to submit via Git, then the source should be zipped up and submitted via e-mail within the deadlines [email protected]
- Failure to meet the Git Commit requirements will result in disqualification.

Judging

Criteria
- Innovation
- Usefulness
- TM Forum APIs
- Integrated Solution
Judges will be representatives of TM Forum, IBM, Orange Telecom, Ericsson, and the local area of Cote d’Azur
Deliberation will be complete by 530pm on May 30th

Prize Details
- Prizes
  - Grand Prize – 5,000 Euros and TM Forum Live! Award Package
  - eHealth Prize – 2,000 Euros
  - Connected Car Prize – 2,000 Euros
  - Urban Park Prize – 2,000 Euros
  - Sponsor Prizes – Various, see main website for details
- The prize money will be divided evenly among all registered team members. The prize money will be sent to the winners via wire transfer, within one month from the receipt of all necessary forms from members of a winning team.
- Each member of the winning teams will be required to sign an Affidavit of Eligibility and a Liability and Publicity Release, and any applicable tax documents in order to receive a prize. If you do not sign the required forms or provide the required information within thirty days following our request we may disqualify you from receiving a prize.
- Taxes shall be the sole responsibility of each winning team member. We shall have no responsibility for any taxes associated with any prize. Each member of the winning teams may be responsible for paying income or other taxes on the prize.

How Your Entry May be Used

You do not transfer ownership of your Entry (or any part of it). However, by submitting an Entry, you grant us an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide rights and license to: (a) use, review, assess, test, and otherwise analyze your Entry and all its content in connection with the Hackathon; and (b) feature your Entry and all its content for promotional purposes (including, but not limited to, in advertisements, press releases, presentations, and trade shows) in all media, now known or later developed. You also agree to sign any necessary documentation that may be required for us and our designees to make use of the rights you granted.
You acknowledge that we, other entrants or others may have developed or commissioned materials similar or identical to your Entry, or may develop something similar in the future, and you waive any claims you may have resulting from any similarities to your Entry.
Please note that after the Hackathon, you and/or your Entry may be publicized in advertisements related to the Hackathon. These advertisements may be distributed online and posted on our site or third-party websites.
While we reserve the rights set forth above, we are not obligated to use your Entry for any purpose, even if it has been selected as a winning Entry.
If you do not want to grant us these rights to your Entry, please do not enter this Hackathon.
Nothing in these Rules shall be interpreted as granting you permission to use or display any of the TM Forum or sponsor trademarks (including any logo or brand) or rights in any TM Forum or sponsor technologies or Intellectual Property. You agree to contact us prior to promoting or publicizing your participation in and, if applicable, you winning the Hackathon.

General Terms

By registering and participating in the Hackathon, you indicate your full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements in these Official Rules.
We may modify any provision of these Official Rules, at any time, by posting updated rules at http://tmforumlive.org/hackathon. You are responsible for checking this site regularly. Because we will endeavor to provide important notices to you via the e-mail address you have provided at registration, it is important that you regularly check that e-mail address.
Without limiting our rights and remedies, we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to disqualify any individual or team who: (a) fails to comply with any provision of these Official Rules, (b) cheats or tampers with the operation of the Hackathon, or otherwise acts in a disruptive or inappropriate manner; or (c) engages in conduct that is unlawful, offensive, or otherwise leads us to conclude, at our sole discretion, that public association with you could cause controversy or embarrassment to us or our partners.
In the event that the operation, security, or administration of the Hackathon is in our judgment impaired in any way, we may, in our sole discretion, without limitation: (a) suspend the Hackathon to address the impairment and then resume the Hackathon; (b) award the prize according to the criteria set forth above from among the eligible entries received up to the time of the impairment, (c) extend any deadlines, or (d) take any other reasonable action as we deem necessary and appropriate to the circumstances.
By entering, you agree to release, defend and hold harmless TM Forum, IBM, Orange, Ericsson, Fi-Ware, our respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents (the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of your participation in the Hackathon, including, but not limited to: (a) unauthorized human intervention in the Hackathon; (b) technical errors that may impair your ability to participate in the Hackathon;(c) errors in the administration of the Hackathon; (d) any claim or allegation that your participation in this Hackathon, or your Entry, was in violation of these Rules, or that your Entry infringes any copyright, trademark, or any other intellectual property right; (e) disputes between team members; (f) disputes between team members and their employers; and (g) claims relating to damage to persons or property relating in any way to your participation in the Hackathon. f) Except where prohibited, you agree that any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, the Hackathon or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action.
Our failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. The Hackathon is subject to local and national laws and regulations and is void where prohibited.

Privacy and Publicity

Information you submit to us when you participate in the Hackathon will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy. In addition, when you submit information on a website run by a third party in connection with this Hackathon, your information may be used by that third party in accordance with its privacy policy.
You may be filmed or photographed while you are participating in the Hackathon. Except where prohibited, by participating in the Hackathon, you agree that we may use your name, likeness, photographs, audio-visual footage, comments, and any other record of your participation in the Hackathon