Excellent news, Matt! I like this format a lot more. Sergey On Aug 5, 2015 3:48 PM, "Matthew Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello NuPIC, > > TL;DR: The next hackathon event will not be an overnight hackathon, > but a one-month challenge. There will still be an On-Site event here > in the San Francisco Bay Area on Nov 13-14. > > > I am already getting questions about the details of our next > hackathon. I am still in the planning process, but I will give you as > much information as I have today in this email. I can't make any > promises that the info below is absolutely correct, but it is the most > I can tell you at this point. > > First of all, the format of the hackathon is going to be entirely > different. So different, in fact, that I'm not going to call it a > "hackathon". It will be called the "2015 Fall NuPIC Challenge". There > will not be an overnight event or an entire weekend of hacking. There > will be a ONE MONTH time period for your to submit and work on your > challenge projects. You will do this through the DevPost.com website > (formerly ChallengePost.com) that we used for our last hackathon. > > Submissions will open on Oct 16 and close on Nov 13. All participants > must create a DevPost account and register for the event in order to > submit a project. There is also a chance for you to create teams and > communicate on DevPost. All submissions from the community will be > reviewed by myself and other volunteers to ensure they are sensible > and achievable before they are added to a public gallery. Anyone can > view this gallery and comment on your projects as you are working on > them. During this time period, we'll try to provide help to remote > hackers on the mailing lists, Gitter [1], and on DevPost.com. > > At the end of the month, we will hold two events on-site here in the > Bay Area (San Jose or San Francisco). I am still searching for a > venue. > > - November 13, Friday afternoon or evening: Community Event (TBD) > - November 14, Saturday 10AM - 8PM: NuPIC Challenge On-Site > > The Community Event is still to be planned, but I will start a thread > soon to ask for volunteers to help plan and execute this event, so > stay tuned to the list. This will not be a Numenta event, although I > am happy to help facilitate it. I would very much like for the > community to lead this and decide what to do and what format to do it. > > The NuPIC Challenge On-Site will be a day similar to the last day of > our recent hackathons. I would like to have 2 or 3 educational > sessions by NuPIC experts in the morning and early afternoon, with > Challenge Demos taking up the majority of the afternoon and evening (4 > hours?). Demos will be presented to a panel of judges on-site, who > will ask questions and score each demo. > > After judging, prizes will be awarded to the best Challenge Demos. > > Remote Participation: You will be able to submit your hack remotely > and record a screencast or video of yourself doing your demo for the > judges if you cannot make it to the physical event. This video will > need to be uploaded to YouTube at least one day before the On-Site. > These remote participants will be at a bit of a disadvantage because > of the lack of interaction with the judging panel, but it is better > than no participation at all. > > As soon as I've polished the DevPost website for this event a bit > more, I will make it public and share the link with the community, > start promoting on Twitter, etc. So stay tuned for more info... > > [1] https://gitter.im/numenta/nupic-challenge > > Regards, > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > >
