This is your one-stop source of information, if you're participating in ETHBerlin.
No need to register your team or idea upfront. Teams get registered when you submit to Devpost (on sunday, see below).
Hacker, looking for a team? Team, looking for an additional hacker? On Friday, 11.30pm find each other in Courtyard 1 (Food courtyard). Don’t be shy. The community is open and everyone here shares a passion for building open source technologies. Also, go to the hacker’s riot chat (#ethberlinhackers:matrix.org) or the Github repo (Team building)
- Open Track Prize: This is the main prize of ETHBerlin. There will be 10 winners. The grand bounty is of approximately 75.000 € and it’s distributed equally. You can calculate it ;)
- People’s Choice Awards: Previous Hackathons have showed that people’s favourite teams were not always among the actual winners. At ETHBerlin, we would like to give those projects a chance by rewarding the people’s favorite team with a community prize of 1000€. The winner will be determined from the top 5 teams through an Olympia prediction market tournament. For details go here. The mentors will vote initially (not on Olympia) to determine the top 5 projects. The top 5 will then be determined through the Olympia prediction market by all of the community as outlined above.
- Sponsor Prizes: Some of ETHBerlin’s sponsors have their own price awards. They can each pay out a maximum of 5000 €. These prizes will be funded and distributed via Gitcoin. Note that ETHBerlin has no influence on neither the challenge nor the judging, this is entirely up to the sponsors. You can find all the prize awards here.
- Community Improvement Awards: These are small prizes endowed with 1000 € each by ETHBerlin. Check them out here.
IMPORTANT: Note that you can submit your work to multiple prize awards, they are not exclusive! So for example you can submit your work to the open track bounty and a sponsor specific prize, just make sure to submit it everywhere where you want to participate.
- Hacking starts during the event. Teams can form and ideas can evolve before the hackathon. However, the code base, hacks, and prototypes that you create for any apps competing for prizes or bounties need to evolve only during the hackathon. Apps, hacks, and projects that were built before the event do not qualify and will be excluded from judging and any prizes.
- Teams should have a maximum of 5 team members consisting of registered hackers only.
- The project should have an open source license and what has been produced during the hackathon should be publicly available and accessible by judges and everyone else.
- A short presentation file must describe your project. It has to be accessible without special tools. Ideally a PDF, Google slides, or even a hosted recording if you like. The judges need to all be able to access those presentations.
- You need to provide a link, which acts as an entry point to your project. Ideally, this link would be a public repository containing the code, team members, presentations and documentation on how one can use your code.
- Smart contracts must be deployed to a public testnet or the Ethereum mainnet.
- Submission closes at 11:30 am on Sunday the 9. of September 2018.
Each sponsored prize has a github issue in the prizes repository. After you've decided which ones you want to apply for, you need to go to the Gitcoin bounty associated with that prize, and click on "Start Work". At the end, the sponsor would decide for a team, and pay out the bounty through Gitcoin.
These prizes are different from the Open Track prize and People's choice award.
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Submission closes at 11:30 am on Sunday the 9. of September 2018
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Judging for the Open Track Prize will happen based on whatever was provided via Devpost
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After your submission the judging team will check for the submission guidlines and will leave a comment on your github repository. Watch for comments starting at around 12pm
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Judging will happen on the 3rd floor
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Each project will be judged by two different judging groups to reduce subjective opinion
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You will present your project to each judging group once. 5mins presentation/demo + 2 mins for Q&A/Feedback
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Sponsored prizes are judged by the respective sponsor, and will have different judging criteria. -- Again: The ETHBerlin Judging team does not judge on sponsor prizes!
To learn more details about the judging process, also read the post on Medium
We've tried to split the knowledge base into different parts, so that you may find information relevant to your role, and the stage of the event, easily. Please start with going through the overview and event which contain general information.
We assume, if you're reading this document, that you know what ETHBerlin is, but just to recap:
ETHBerlin is a combination of a hackathon, workshops and talks, happening from 7th till 9th of September 2018 in Berlin, Germany. It's proudly a part of the ETHGlobal community. For more, please refer to the website.
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When you've read the general information for all of the phases above, you may find information specific to your role here:
| Hackers* | Volunteers | Speakers | Mentors | Judges | Sponsors | Community Members | Organization Team |
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Hacker: Someone who takes part in the hackathon by joining a team and working on a project, and the term doesn't exclusively refer to people with software development backgrounds.
Or "If you liked it then you shoulda put a dApp on it"!
ETHBerlin will try to use tools created within the ecosystem as much as possible for its various needs. This paves the way for adoption of web3, which we're all trying to buidl, and acts as a good testing ground for the dapps, consequently helping the respective teams to learn from this experience and make the softwares even better. For more on this, check out the article.
One of the dapps, mentioned above, that we love and use a lot, is Status. Make sure you install it and come say hi in the #ethberlin channel. Feel free to ask for couches there, or discuss sharing flat with other participants. We also have channels for getting to know eachother and building teams!
For everyone
We're really excited that you're joining us. Here are the next steps:
Here you can find information about the airports and stations in Berlin. Unfortunately ETHBerlin is not able to compensate traveling costs of participants as funding is limited and we've decided to allocate the biggest fraction of the funds to the prize pool and organizations of the events itself. However, there is a very limited subsidy on a first-come first-served basis. We encourage everyone to allow those who benefit most make use of these subsidies. To apply please write us.
There are a variety of options available in Berlin for the purpose of accomodation. From hostels to airbnb flats and hotels. We recommend the regions Treptow, Kreuzberg or Friedrichshain due to their close proximity to the venue. As part of our commitment to using dapps extensively throughout the hackathon, we're in close contact with the team behind Winding Tree, and most probably they will launch to mainnet within the next few days, in which case, you can reserve a place with ETH or LIF, their native token.
Day 1 (7. September) consists of a two-track conference in two venues:
- Factory Mitte (Rheinsberger Straße 76/77)
- Factory Görlitzer Park (Lohmühlenstraße 65)
After the conferences are done, the hackathon people will get together at Factory Görlitzer – this will be the only venue after the conferences – at 22:00 when the opening ceremony (accompanied by dinner & drinks) and team formation will take place. The Hackathon kicks off at 00:00 on September 8th.
If you are a hacker, a mentor, a registered sponsor, a volunteer, a judge or a speaker you don’t need a ticket, just your e-mail confirmation and ID.
Community tickets for Day 1 conferences will be launched via Peepeth on a Blockparty Smart Contract on September 1st. All tickets are free. Community tickets do not enable access to the Hackathon or Day 2 & 3 Workshops. Thank you in advance for respecting the hackers and their #BUIDL.
- Full Schedule includes first-day conference tracks, workshops during the hackathon, etc.
- Hackathon Schedule includes key hackathon events (registeration, etc.) and mealtimes.
ETHBerlin will cover all meals & drinks for the entire Hackathon, and conference coffee breaks. you won’t need money here, only BERLINcoin to experiment with, an open mind, a knowledge-thirsty brain & sharp-as-knives building skills.
Due to the regulations of the venue, unfortunately we cannot offer any sleeping facilities on-site, and sleeping bags are not allowed. Please make sure you take this into consideration when choosing an accomodation.
Throughout the event you can participate in a variety of bounties to win some BRLN coin! Browse the bounties here