Simone Brunozzi Senior Technology Evangelist

AWS@simon

Hackathon

at AWS re:Invent 2013

Welcome!

2 days challenge

idea pitching (optional)

team forming (optional)

hacking

judging

prizes

What is a typical Hackathon

1-day challenge (Nov 12th, 2013)

Charities provide “IT Challenges”

early team forming (to save time)

hacking

judging

prizes

The re:Invent Hackathon

Challenge

Real life

1-day only: easier to have IT challenges ready

Donate your code (optional)

Change the world (a little bit)

Why Charities?

Charity

Problem

Resources

Solution needed

AWS services likely to be used

Judging criteria

Example of an IT Challenge?

Charity: DonorsChoose

Problem: predict which first time donors will return

Resources: data set

Solution needed: 90% or higher return probability

AWS services likely to be used: EC2, S3, EMR

Judging criteria:

Example of an IT Challenge?

Breakfast will start at 8:00am

9:00am - 9:15am : Event kick-off

9:15am - 10:30pm : Hacking

10:30pm - midnight : Pitching and judging

Food and beverages will be provided throughout the day

Schedule (Nov 12th)

A laptop (suitable for coding)

An active AWS account

What to bring

A big room to hack happily

Food and beveragesWhiteboards

Power strips

Wireless internet accessPlenty of AWS credits for your hacking

needs

What we provide

1) DonorsChoose.org (help students in need)2) Citizen Science

and Cancer Research UK (help research fight cancer)3)

Architecture For Humanity (solutions to social and humanitarian

crisis)4) United Way (volunteers and communities)5)

Change.org (petition platform)

Charities involved

Successfully meeting the criteria of the NGO (0-10)Appropriate

Use of AWS Services (0-5)Design, Presentation, and Creativity

(0-5)Technical Expertise (0-5)Special Points (0-5)

Total: 0-30

Judging criteria

To save time we’d like to help you form teams in advance.

Go to the survey form:

http://bit.ly/2013-hackathon-form

Team forming

Name, and AWS forums nickname

Preferred programming language

Preferred development type

AWS Knowledge

Rank your favorite Charity / challenge

Want us to setup a team for you?

Github repository

Other participants you want to hack with

Hackathon form

Build a web or mobile app that will let users register and then

look for volunteer opportunities in an area of choice.

Once the user enter a zip code, the app returns a list of the top

5 service agencies and top 5 volunteer opportunities within a

user-specified distance from the zip code, and lets the user

order the list by distance and popularity. Opportunities might be

weighted more than others.

Challenge: UnitedWay

Make the charity's open data more accessible to researchers.

Automate the loading of the latest open data CSV from S3 into

a Database with the scripted re-joining of the tables. An

interface could be a simple webpage that acts as a console for

executing queries, returning the data on-screen for display or

via CSV for download.

A researcher/developer wanting to play with the data would just

launch this automation and soon thereafter would have their

own instance up and humming.

Challenge: DonorsChoose

Create an app that helps smartphone users turn their bad

behavior into positive change. Users can donate their "pennies"

every time they are “bad”, e.g. swearing, eating cake, etc. The

money would be deducted from the user's credit card and sent

to the charity. Users can also make public challenges and invite

their friends to group challenges.

Note: real money will not be used, but simulated.

Challenge: Citizen Science UK

Create a site that allows users to 'pledge funds' to fund part of a

building. Once the funding is complete, it green-lights the

project. A model is created of the actual building to be built. The

user chooses the building detail to fund and makes the

donation from within the app. After the donation is complete the

building detail is highlighted. This will show what has been

funded and what has not.

Challenge: Architecture For Humanity

Build a real-time dashboard of hot petitions, which scales and

persists. Can you find a small but growing movement while a

large movement is happening? Assuming a data stream of

tuples (petition, user), we need a dashboard that allows our

team to find things people care about. Petitions will include

tags, locale, language, location, and categories, as well as

looking at time windows ranging from the last hour to a few

days.

Challenge: Change.org

Deal with REAL organizations

Lack of information...

Lack of guidance...

Pressing timeline...

Use your creativity to find a solution!

(you can always ask for help during the Hackathon)

This is the REAL world

Main Hackathon website:

https://reinvent.awsevents.com/hackathon.html

Hackathon survey form:

http://bit.ly/2013-hackathon-form

More info?

Simone Brunozzi Senior Technology Evangelist

AWS@simon

Hackathon

at AWS re:Invent 2013