Hacking Times
Hacking can begin at 11am on Saturday, Nov 20th and must conclude by 12pm on Sunday, Nov 21st in order to be submitted for judging. You CANNOT use code that was written prior to 11am on Nov 20th in your submitted project. However, you're welcome to work on your project after the hackathon's over (we encourage it!) and can use code you wrote prior to Nov 20th at that point, too. If you're using code from public APIs, SDKs etc, this is not subject to the same coding start time requirement.
Group Size
Groups can technically be any size; there is no fixed upper limit. However, queer_hack will only award prizes for up to 4 group members per project. For this reason, we suggest keeping groups at 4 or less, but if some group members would be fine foregoing a prize, your group can definitely be larger. You're also welcome to work individually and submit an individual project, but we encourage collaboration! You can only submit one project, so if you're in a group, you can't submit an individual project, and vice versa.
Project Parameters
Basically, just make sure the code you submit was written by your group for queer_hack 2021 for the sole purpose of this hackathon. Don't just repurpose code from old class projects, write code ahead of time, or steal code from others.
Do I Need To Be Queer?
Yes. You must be an LGBTQ+ (not cisgender and heterosexual) college or gradaute student in order to participate in queer_hack 2021. You do not need to be a student at a specific university or out as LGBTQ+ to anyone in order to participate in queer_hack 2021.
