Cisco FedCode Exchange Partner Hackathon 2020 Official Rules – (the “Official Rules”)

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Hackathon Name: Cisco FedCode Exchange Partner Hackathon 2020

Hackathon Website: https://cisco-fedcode-hack2020.devpost.com/

POSTER & ADMINISTRATOR 

Poster (the “Poster”): Cisco US Public Sector

The Poster is the sponsor and entity responsible for the Hackathon.

Administrator (the “Administrator”): Cisco US Federal

DATES AND TIMING  

Hackathon Submission Period:

Wednesday, July 8, 2020 (9:00 am EDT) – Sunday, August 23, 2020 (11:00 pm EDT) (the “Hackathon Submission Period”)

Judging Period:

Monday August 24, 2020 (9:00am EDT) – Monday August 31, 2020 (12:00pm EDT) (the “Judging Period”)

No Public Voting will take place.

Winners Announced:

On or around September 9, 2020 (11:00 am EDT)

The Administrator will be the official timekeeper for the Hackathon.

 

Application Requirements

What to Create

Teams are required to create a working customer solution using Cisco’s Collaboration platform. They are further required to leverage at least one Cisco Collaboration API and they must solve a Federal customer problem. Teams are encouraged to make varied and creative use of Cisco Collaboration PI endpoints and Additional Developer Tools to create their solutions.

 

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 the 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.

   

JUDGING

Judges

Eligible Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of qualified judges selected by the Poster (the “Judges”), which may include, but not be limited to, judges from Cisco engineering and sales roles as well as a subset of Federal customers. . Judges may be employees of the Poster or external, may or may not be listed individually on the Hackathon Website, and may change before or during the Judging Period. Judging may take place in one or more rounds with one or more panels of Judges, at the discretion of the Poster.

Criteria

The Judges will score eligible Submissions using the following equally weighted criteria (the “Judging Criteria”):

  1. Relevance to a Customer Problem - Measured on whether the solution solves for an actual customer scenario and requirements.
  2. Documentation and Reusability - Can someone else understand what was done, how it was done, and reuse the code, as shared to recreate and/or extend the solution?
  3. Quality of the Idea - Is the idea a strong minimal viable product for the customer to use today?
  4. Implementation - How well the idea was designed and implemented by the Team, as well as the complexity of the build and creative use of Cisco’s platform and DevOps processes and tools.
  5. Complexity - Includes the practicability and ease of implementation in a customer environment. 
  6. APIs Used - Includes meeting minimum requirements of at least one (1) Cisco Collaboration API.

 

The Teams that are eligible for a Prize, and whose Submissions earn the highest overall scores based on the applicable Judging Criteria, will become potential winners of that Prize.

Submission Review

Judges are not required to test the Application and may choose to judge based solely on the text description, images, and video provided in the Submission.

  

PRIZES

All Teams will be eligible for Cisco Hackathon promotion swag, including t-shirts & laptop stickers valued at <$20.

One (1) winning Team will be selected as the “Overall Hackathon Winner”

The winning "Team" will be eligible to be featured in a Cisco Partner Blog spotlight and the option to present their solution at an upcoming FY21 Fed Flash (Cisco Federal Team All-Hands) virtual town hall event to receive visibility in the Cisco Federal Community.

 

CONTACT

If you have any questions or comments or wish to send us any notice regarding this Hackathon, please email us at [email protected].