Eligibility Requirements 

• The Partner Hackathon is open to teams (“Teams”) of IT professionals currently employed by and representing an authorized Cisco partner (each a “Partner”).
• The Partner must have a valid Cisco BE GEO ID and Partner Participants a CCO ID.
• Each Team member must have the permission of the applicable Partner to participate in the Hackathon and accept the prizes described below if awarded to such Team.
• Team members are solely responsible for informing the applicable Partner of their participation in the Hackathon, and compliance with any applicable laws, contractual limitations and procedures established by the Partner related to their participation.
• If a Team is entering the Hackathon, they must appoint and authorize one (1) individual (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter a Submission (defined below), on their behalf. The Representative must meet the eligibility requirements above. By entering a Submission on the Hackathon Website on behalf of a Team you represent and warrant that you are the Representative authorized to act on behalf of your Team.
• The Hackathon is void where prohibited.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS 

Teams must do the following to participate in the Hackathon:

• Register for the Hackathon on the Hackathon Website at https://cisco-fedcode-hack2020.devpost.com/ by clicking the “Register for this Hackathon” button. To complete registration, sign up to create a Devpost account, or log in with an existing Devpost account. There is no charge for creating a Devpost account. This will enable you to receive important updates and access the “Enter a Submission” page.
• Only one Devpost account created by the Team’s Representative is required per Team.
• You will be required to fill out a submission form including Team name, project name, a short description of project, names & emails for all your team members.
• No limit to the number of participants on your team/from your company.
• Once interested you will receive an email with information to access a separate operating environment in Cisco’s CIDR Confluence & JIRA for your designated team. These environments will be private to each team and only team members and Cisco CIDR admins will have access.
• Build an application, integration, or solution using Cisco Collaboration platform API’s that solve real challenges for our federal customers. Further Application requirements are below.

When ready to submit your hackathon project for judging, each team much submit via Devpost with the following elements:

• Name of your solution.
• Describe the technologies used.
• Respond to the question “What does it do?” on how the solution/application/integration is to be used
• Answer the question “How the solution was built?” by describing the programming language(s), storage, or any additional relevant information pertaining to the project that the "Team" would like to disclose.
• Respond to the question “Challenges Faced” by sharing any challenges the team encountered while building.
• Provide links to your documentation and agile processes in Conf. & JIRA
• Create and submit screenshots or photographs of the solution/application/integration (additional details below)
• Complete and enter all of the required fields on the “Enter a Submission” page of the Hackathon Website during the Hackathon Submission Period (ending Sunday, August 24, 2020, at 11:00 pm EDT)
• Optional: Create and submit a video that further explains your solution and how you got there. Please no more than 7 minutes maximum. The ability to articulate and demonstrate the problem, the process, the work, and the solution in short order is critical.
• Once the above criteria and Hackathon Website text submission requirements (collectively, the “Submission”) are complete, submit your Submission before August 24, 2020, at 11:00 pm EDT for Judges to begin reviewing.

Text Description, Image, Video, and Additional Submission Materials

Text Description

The text description should clearly and concisely explain the features and functionality of your solution and what makes it unique.

• What does the solution do
• How was the solution built
• What challenges did the team face building the solution

Images (provide imagines if not providing video)

The image(s) must be photographs or screenshots of your working Solution.

• PDF format
• Capture the solution in one or more still images

Video (provide video if not providing images)

The video portion of the Submission:

1. Must be less than seven (7) minutes.
2. Must include footage that clearly explains the story solution’s features and functionality through a comprehensive demonstration.
3. Must be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo, and a link to the video must be provided on the submission form on Devpost.
4. Must not include third party trademarks, or copyrighted music or other material unless the "Team" has permission to use such material.

Code repo

Each team must share their code via a private Github repo that will be created within the CIDR Github repo (https://github.com/ciscops/cidr). This repo will be private to each team and only team members and Cisco CIDR admins will have access to it.

Given the desire is to create a Federal Developer Community the hope is that some of this code can be transitions into the public domain (e.g. open-sourced with proper licenses) via a Cisco CIDR public repo and/or Cisco DevNet’s Code Exchange. HOWEVER, the purpose of collecting this code in the context of this hackathon is for judging purposes only. Each team will have the ability to remove their code and/or keep their repo private as long as they desire. Cisco CIDR claims no rights to any code shared as part of this hackathon.

Additional Submission Materials

Teams are encouraged to submit varied forms of presentation and documentation to demonstrate their solution, including a Website, Blog post, or pitch deck via Devpost and CIDR DevOps tools.

Submission Modifications

1. [Draft Submissions] Prior to the end of the Hackathon Submission Period ( August 24, 2020 at 11:00 pm EDT), you may save draft versions of your Submission on Devpost to your portfolio before submitting the Submission materials to the Hackathon for evaluation. Once the Submission Period has ended ( August 24, 2020, at 11:00 pm EDT), you may not make any changes or alterations to your Submission, but you may continue to update the project in your Devpost portfolio.
2. [Modifications After the Hackathon Submission Period] The Poster may permit you to modify part of your Submission after the Hackathon Submission Period for the purpose of removing material that potentially infringes a third-party mark or right, discloses personally identifiable information, or is otherwise inappropriate. The modified Submission must remain substantively the same as the original Submission with the only modification being what the Poster permits.