Hack the Hackathon
Project Description
Hosting hackathons presents a dynamic and multifaceted challenge that encompasses both technological and human factors. From a technological standpoint, ensuring a seamless and productive hackathon experience involves addressing various complexities.
Fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment is pivotal for the success of a hackathon. Encouraging diverse participation and creating a culture of teamwork can be challenging yet rewarding. Organizers need to consider factors such as team formation, communication channels, and mentorship opportunities to enhance the overall experience for participants.
Addressing issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion ensures that all participants feel valued and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and skills.
Everyone who wants to host a hackathon faces these challenges from Zero to Hero.
Cloudron, with its versatile platform, can address many of the challenges associated with hosting hackathons by providing a streamlined solution. Additionally, our initiative focuses on creating a distribution using Free and Open Source Software to offer a comprehensive toolset that caters to the diverse technological and human factors involved in hackathon organization.
Target Audience
Our target audience is actually everyone present at the hackathon itself.
In our project team everyone is welcome, there are so many factors to tackle that everyone can be useful.
From technical challenges to human to human interactions.
You are a first time hackathon attendee, a seasoned hackathon member, a hackathon host, a sponsor? We need everyone.
Hackathon Goals
With our Hackathon Project “Hack the Hackathon” we will create a template and platform for everyone to use.
Compiled knowledge from Hackathon sponsors, attendees and hosts so everyone can get started with being a host without the challenges faced by the Zero to Hero approach.
Project Lead
Johannes Zellner
Founder of Cloudron
Girish Ramakrishnan
Co-founder
Elias Hackradt
SysOps Engineer at GzEvD mbH. & Cloudron Partner
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