Please join us to learn about the AWS re:Invent hackathon format, charities involved, code challenges, and ask any questions you may have.

1. Simone Brunozzi
Senior Technology Evangelist
AWS@simon
Hackathon
at AWS re:Invent 2013

2. Welcome!

3. 2 days challenge
idea pitching (optional)
team forming (optional)
hacking
judging
prizes
What is a typical Hackathon

4. 1-day challenge (Nov 12th, 2013)
Charities provide “IT Challenges”
early team forming (to save time)
hacking
judging
prizes
The re:Invent Hackathon

5. Challenge
Real life
1-day only: easier to have IT challenges ready
Donate your code (optional)
Change the world (a little bit)
Why Charities?

6. Charity
Problem
Resources
Solution needed
AWS services likely to be used
Judging criteria
Example of an IT Challenge?

7. 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?

8. 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)

9. A laptop (suitable for coding)
An active AWS account
What to bring

10. A big room to hack happily
Food and beveragesWhiteboards
Power strips
Wireless internet accessPlenty of AWS credits for your hacking
needs
What we provide

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Main Hackathon website:
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/hackathon.html
Hackathon survey form:
http://bit.ly/2013-hackathon-form
More info?

22. Simone Brunozzi
Senior Technology Evangelist
AWS@simon
Hackathon
at AWS re:Invent 2013