Overview

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This is currently a work in progress. I'm just getting it into Docusaurus, so it's a hot mess. As a result this page and the right/left indices are probably inconsistent. I'll be working to bring those into alignment.

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This is my first pass at creating a runbook of my/our thoughts on how to run Opportunity Hack. There are a few caveats:

• Opportunity Hack has been run in a few different formats. This runbook focuses on the full weekend varieties run in the US.
• Even though we've gotten pretty good at these, there is always room for improvement, and we tune things every year.
  • Tuning is is not completely re-examining.

Hackathon Planning

• Budget
• Prizes
• Venue
• Food
• SWAG
• Bribes

6+ months

• Coordination platform - (Devpost)
• Recruiting
  • Hackers
  • Hackees (i.e. NPOs)
  • Sponsors

2+ months

• Mentors
• Volunteers
• Judges
• SWAG
  • Give aways
  • T-shirts

1+ month

• Food
• Recruiting "roadshows"

Hackathon "weekend"

Saturday

• Registration
• Breakfast
• Opening comments
• Keynote
• Information for the day
• NPO presentations
• Team formation
  • Hacking begins
  • Github repos
  • Devpost submissions
• A bunch of meals and other stuff

Sunday

• More meals
• Get submissions done
• Teams prepping for presentations
• Judging
  • Prepping the judges
• Awards
• Drinking