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Discussion#2113

Polkadot Hackathon Global Series 2024: North America Edition

justinng
2 years ago
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Proponent: Tribe/AngelHack 13Ghf2T883ZobjngC1BAgR1BWvK2P7qP37gGxHDVFf3fjbmw

Requested DOT: USD$346,800.00 | 51034 DOT

Following the successes of our Polkadot Hackathon Global Series (held in APAC, Europe, and North America) across 2021-2023, we are proposing to launch 2024's Polkadot Hackathon Global Series in North America. Our goal here is to continue providing Web3 builders a safe space to learn and explore the Polkadot ecosystem, whilst uniting existing builders across different verticals within the ecosystem to demonstrate the strength of our community.

The North America edition will be a hybrid hackathon, with a virtual hacking component and an in-person finale held at the Consensus conference in Austin, Texas. 

Events Schedule:

Pre-Hackathon Period15 Feb - 13 Mar 2024
Hackathon Kickoff14 Mar - 3 May 2024
Hacking Period8 Apr - 29 Apr 2024
Judging Period30 Apr - 9 May 2024
PolkadotSocial: Austin30 May 2024

Our full proposal can be found here.

*DOT calculated via EMA7 on the day of the official submission, 5 February 2024, at 8:00:00 (+UTC) - 1 DOT ~ 6.795472 USD. Conversion: $346,800 USD ~ 51033.98 = 51034 DOT

Comments (7)

2 years ago
  1. Considering that Tribe/Angelhack has completed already a long hackathon project in 2023, can we get a consolidated link of project winners that came out of these events? Is it possible to get a consolidated budget spent report as well? What can be found so far are results on the same proposals. So links to githubs/websites would be good to have.

  2. We will reiterate the point about the "prize administration fee" . Is there a concrete reason to have 20% of the prizes (the 1/5th) being an administrative fee?. A fee which by the way has increased from 10% to 20% - Section 6.1 

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1glPH1y0jqL2l6KV6i9nowQHFxKfA1s7VxlUREFIQZWA/edit

     Shouldn't that be significantly lower as the service fee is already included in the 75k of the initial part and exchanges shouldn't take as much if you really want to give the prizes in USD? (assuming exchange to bank conversion. Direct DOT awarding shouldn't carry any prize overhead). The logic given in this document is due to "bank transfers" and it's not a good explanation in our opinion.

  3. What's the reason to have the full document unavailable for downloads?

2 years ago

Ah the never ending grift continues. If it's not failing YouTube channels then it's nothing-burger hackathons. 

why do we need this when we have PBA? Did anything concrete or real come out of your previous hackathons?

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Comments (7)

2 years ago
  1. Considering that Tribe/Angelhack has completed already a long hackathon project in 2023, can we get a consolidated link of project winners that came out of these events? Is it possible to get a consolidated budget spent report as well? What can be found so far are results on the same proposals. So links to githubs/websites would be good to have.

  2. We will reiterate the point about the "prize administration fee" . Is there a concrete reason to have 20% of the prizes (the 1/5th) being an administrative fee?. A fee which by the way has increased from 10% to 20% - Section 6.1 

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1glPH1y0jqL2l6KV6i9nowQHFxKfA1s7VxlUREFIQZWA/edit

     Shouldn't that be significantly lower as the service fee is already included in the 75k of the initial part and exchanges shouldn't take as much if you really want to give the prizes in USD? (assuming exchange to bank conversion. Direct DOT awarding shouldn't carry any prize overhead). The logic given in this document is due to "bank transfers" and it's not a good explanation in our opinion.

  3. What's the reason to have the full document unavailable for downloads?

2 years ago

Ah the never ending grift continues. If it's not failing YouTube channels then it's nothing-burger hackathons. 

why do we need this when we have PBA? Did anything concrete or real come out of your previous hackathons?

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