1 December 2015

Join the Openhack: Coding for humanity

Join the Openhack, on the 4th-6th of December 2015!

Hundreds of developers, designers and motivated people from Sweden to Denmark will gather for a full weekend Hackathon in Malmö. The focus will be to leverage OpenSource code to solve challenges society faces. OpenHack will bring ideation, design, and coding to deliver creative solutions for the good of humanity.

The challenge

There are many challenges in the world that put the good of humanity to the test. We encourage all ideas that could help to address these, both on a local and global scale. One example is the currently largest refugee crises since the Second World War. More then 4 million refugees have been forced to leave their home country Syria on a dangerous and long journey. Another example is the recent earthquakes that hit Nepal on the 5th of April, which left at least 2 million Nepalis homeless. Events like these are of course very challenging for the people involved. But we believe that Open Source and creative thinking can help in bringing useful solutions.

Challenge categories

  • Most impactful for a humanitarian crisis
  • Best open source contribution
  • Best experience for public service
  • Best visual experience
  • Best gamification
  • Peoples choice award
  • Most Awesome School Challenge

Judging Criteria

You will have the opportunity to present your contribution to a jury consisting of sponsors, partners, representatives, subject matter experts and possible end-users. For a team to be considered for judging the following criteria must be met:

  • Usage of Bluemix services
  • Open Source
  • Related to one of the categories

How to contribute

We encourage everyone to come up with ideas and solutions that focus on solving humanitarian issues. At the Hackathon there will be at least two established Open Source projects represented. Both projects will bring expertise and knowledge in forms of personal, support and inspiration. If you have ideas for contribution to these, they will be more than happy to listen to you. But it’s completely up to you whether you want to hack using these projects or some other Open Source projects.