awesome-hackathon

Platforms, tools, and guides for critical organizers 🌆
https://github.com/dribdat/awesome-hackathon

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Tooling
- Coaching
  - Awesome README - A list to inspire your coaches to motivate your teams to document their efforts ...with panache.
  - Treehacks-MentorBot - Slackbot that provides mentors a channel to claim help requests and attendees to submit help requests within slack. Queues requests in a #mentors channel.
  - Leadership & Governance - Handbook for open source project, that also applies well for hackathon teams.
  - HELPq - Queue application with interfaces for mentors and hackers to answer/submit questions, respectively.
  - Hangar - A Slack bot to help with judging and coaching at hackathons.
  - TreeHacks Slack Mentorship System - A Slack bot that queues requests in a #mentors channel (unmaintained as of 2015).
- Organizing
  - Planning Kit - Get information about how to design a hackathon that fits your needs.
  - BoilerBot - Take control of your Slack by creating groups, assigning tasks, and more.
  - Hubot-RedisRed - As well as [hubot-group](https://github.com/anishathalye/hubot-group), [hubot-conf](https://github.com/anishathalye/hubot-conf), [hubot-shortcut](https://github.com/anishathalye/hubot-shortcut) by HackMIT are [Hubot](https://hubot.github.com/) plugins to make organizing easier.
  - Hackme - Minimalistic hackathon registration and participant status monitoring.
  - HaQR - A modular QR code management system for hackathons and other events.
- Teambuilding
  - Team Builder for MS Teams - Sample app that allows hackathon participants to form a team based on challenges they want to tackle.
  - Steps to Building an Effective Team - A bullet-point list from UC Berkley.
  - Team building activities - 64 fun ideas from SessionLab.
  - Dridbot - Multiplatform chatbot, for pepping up the experience for participants and organizers of hackathons.
  - volunTree - Volunteer Management System for DSC Hack4Good Hackathon.
  - Team Builder for MS Teams - Sample app that allows hackathon participants to form a team based on challenges they want to tackle.
- Evaluating
  - Eventflare's Journal - Strategies for determining criteria & [recruiting judges](https://eventflare.io/journal/how-to-select-the-right-hackathon-judges-for-your-event).
  - Expo Table app - Create a Devpost Expo table frontend.
  - Gavel - A project expo judging system by HackMIT that uses fancy math to get good results.
  - @CivicWhitaker Anthology - Evaluates three years of organizing hackathons in Chicago civic tech.
  - Rankeer - An elaborate student project about management and evaluation of hackathons.
  - Ansys Developer - A set of judging criteria for hackathons.
  - Evaluation Hackathon - High-level advice on better evaluation from the IPDET hackathons.
  - Evaluation Manual - Older guidance sourced from Hacker Earth.
  - MLH Judging Plan - A science-fair type approach to evaluation.
- Promoting
  - Hackalist - A list of upcoming hackathons from around the world.
  - Hackathon Sponsorship
  - Hack Club - A curated list of hackathons organized for high schoolers.
  - Open Source Events - This website contains a monthly calendar of events and hackathons (project is archived as of Feb 5, 2024).
  - Upcoding - Get event details of competitive programming contests, hackathons etc.
  - Scrapbook - A daily streak system & portfolio for your projects.
Platforms
- Organisations
  - Hackathon.com - your-hackathon.html) promotes events globally, and offers [commercial services](https://corporate.hackathon.com/).
  - HackerEarth
  - Eventornado - in-one platform for organising a hackathon.
  - Hack2Skill - is-a-hackathon-a-complete-guide-about-hackathon) for technology innovators.
  - HYPE
  - Mercer | Mettl - hackathons/) for building tech teams and fostering collaboration.
  - Microsoft - us/power-platform/guidance/adoption/hackathons) for hackathons - see the [AcademicContent](https://github.com/microsoft/AcademicContent/blob/main/hackathon-content.md) repo for participants.
  - Random Hacks of Kindness - profits and social enterprise (see also: [RHOK, Jr.](https://rhokjr.org/) and [RHOK CPH](https://www.rhok-cph.org/)).
  - Tulula - guide/quick-start).
  - Unstop
  - HYPE
  - Hack the Hackathon
  - HackTribe
- Closed Source 🔒
  - Agorize - A French company that provides open innovation software.
  - Devfolio - Supporting India's 'largest and fastest growing community of builders'.
  - Devpost - Recognizable U.S. company, whose customers market developer tools and jobs to the community.
  - TAIKAI - Connects creators and companies, using hackathons, bounties and hiring challenges.
  - Hackworks - Open innovation challenge platform from experienced event organizers in Canada.
  - Stackref - Internal hackathon and ideation, with cloud provisioning and judging features.
  - Nosu - AI tools to manage hackathons, aiming to upend tech recruiting by quantifying hackathon performance.
  - HackHub - Canadian company with a featureful event and talent scouting app.
  - HackHQ - All-in-one hackathon management platform for internal corporate hackathons with registration, submissions, judging, voting, and live results in 30 minutes.
- Inactive 🧊
  - Find Hackathon - A Cross-Platform Mobile Application for finding Hackathons.
  - Quill - A registration system designed especially for large hackathons, maintained by HackMIT.
  - HackAssistant - Hackathon registration server.
  - HackDash - Organize hackaton ideas into a dashboard.
  - HackPortal - A platform from HackUTD for user-friendly event management.
  - HackathonManager - Hackathon registration & logistics, compatible with MyMLH.
  - Hacksuite - A fullstack suite of apps from [Devtranet](https://devtranet.tech/) for hosting virtual hackathons.
  - Hackfoldr - Organize gdoc and hackpad documents for hackathons.
  - LaraHack - Administration system designed for hackathons and similar competitions.
  - Ninjathon - Hackathon managing platform.
  - Sledge - A judging system for hackathons developed at Rutgers University.
  - React Hackathon Board - Web application to manage Hackathon events.
  - VersusVirus App - For managing teams at large online hackathons.
  - Pepper - Designed to work with MyMLH for sign in.
  - Kent Hack Enough - Legacy registration and staff management API for HackSU events.
  - project-hackathon - Hackathon management tool created at Hackafor. `typescript`
  - ApplicantAtlas - Made for managing applicants, RSVPs and other communications.
  - Hackatuning - Early stage hackathon management platform. `js`
  - chronicel - A minimal registration system for a smaller, more personal hackathon.
  - Nucleus - Hackathon application system that integrates with MyMLH, Slack and more from HackTX.
  - Scout24 - Hackathon management system from a company.
  - hms - Hackathon Management System for Azure by knoffhoff.
  - Odyssey - A hackathon management platform, built by HackSC.
- Open Source 🌳
  - Opportunity Hack - Skills-Based Volunteering for Social Good, matching people to projects.
  - Dribdat - **Hackathons for impact, based on open data and web standards.** `python` `js`
  - Hibiscus - An all-in-one, plug-and-play hackathon platform, created for HackSC.
  - JunctionApp - All-in-one hackathon platform for organisers, maintained by Junction.
  - OpenHackathon - Platform with Git-based Cloud Development Environment based on Next.js.
  - Civic Tech Exchange - Online platform for Democracy Lab projects.
  - DeltaHacks Portal - The attendee & admin portal for DeltaHacks 10, the hackathon for change.
  - Hack the Back - An elegant backend, with ready-made GraphQL and REST endpoints.
  - Hackerspace3 - Competition Management System for the GovHack Hackathon. `ruby`
  - Halo - Hackathon Management System built on Django.
  - Hackathon Management System - A comprehensive WordPress plugin by [Teplitsa](https://hms.te-st.org/). `php`
Guides
- Evaluating
  - Dribdat wiki - Community sourced guidelines from an open source project.
  - GitHub Guide to Hackathons - Join a community connected by code, with tips & tricks from GitHub.
  - Hackathon Hackers Guide - Collection of high quality hackathon resources. See also [Etiquette](https://medium.com/hackathon-hackers/hackathon-hackers-etiquette-cbcb9d1cda54#.dmgz1wp4y) and [Subgroups](https://github.com/HackathonHackers/groups).
  - hack.athon.uk - A wiki for helping hackers get into hackathons and organise them!
  - Handbuch Jugend-Hackathons - (In German) An in-depth guide to organizing youth events.
  - Mattermost Handbook - Practical guidelines from the open source Mattermost chat server.
  - McKinsey: Demystifying the hackathon - For digital transformation of large organizations.
  - Mediawiki Handbook - Suggestions from the Mediawiki community (which powers Wikipedia).
  - OpenDataLab.eu Handbook - Open 4 Citizens hackathon handbook from an EU project.
  - Ultimate Ethereum Hackathon Survival Guide - From a popular Web3 community.
  - Hackathon Guidelines - Opendata.ch - Principles for hackathons from the Swiss open data community.
  - Mattermost Handbook - Practical guidelines from the open source Mattermost chat server.
  - Hackathon.guide - A step-by-step guide by seasoned organizer Joshua Tauberer.
  - Hackathon Leitfaden - (In German) Printed guide for municipalities.
  - Hackday Manifesto - How to make your event a success, and avoid common pitfalls.
  - MLH Organizer Guide - Guide from Major League Hacking, popular at US schools.
  - Hackathon Toolbox - Suggests technical tools by stage of hackathon development.
  - Hack Tools - Theodoros Ploumis has great advice for attendees, evaluators and organizers.
  - MLH Software for Hackathons - A short and tidy list of hackathon software that overlaps with the one you're reading now.
  - Hack4TheFuture Guidebook - from an EU project, a book on running international events.
  - Guides et documentation data.gouv.fr - (In French) Documentation for open government data hackathon organizers.
  - LauzHack How-To - Guides for the student organizers of flagship and mini-sized hackathons in Lausanne.
  - Hackathon Guidelines - Opendata.ch - Principles for hackathons from the Swiss open data community.
  - OpenDataLab.eu Handbook - Open 4 Citizens hackathon handbook from an EU project.
  - OpenHatch In-Person Event Handbook - For getting your open source project ready for new contributors.
  - Participant - content/uploads/2021/04/Hackathon-Handbook-010720.pdf) handbooks.
  - Zotero - Awesome Hackathon - A web library of references on research into the Impacts, Landscape, Motivation and Organizing of hackathons.
Footnotes
- Evaluating
  - generator-awesome-list - hackathons](https://github.com/cconsidine/awesome-hackathons) by Camille Considine.

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