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Polkadot Hackathon Global Series 2024: North America Edition
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 Period | 15 Feb - 13 Mar 2024 |
| Hackathon Kickoff | 14 Mar - 3 May 2024 |
| Hacking Period | 8 Apr - 29 Apr 2024 |
| Judging Period | 30 Apr - 9 May 2024 |
| PolkadotSocial: Austin | 30 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)
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.
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.
What's the reason to have the full document unavailable for downloads?
Hey @saxemberg , thank you so much for the feedback. We have seen your comments and are working to both furnish the proposal and address points #1 and #2 as soon as we can — ideally by the end of next week.
As for point #3, we usually block download access across all our proposals to prevent external parties from plagiarising them for their own usage. Do let us know if this is a concern that we should address as well.
Thanks, and we will get back to you soon!
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?
Hey @Mobb! Thanks for sharing this feedback with us.
We neglected to include this detail in our proposal (but we will amend it for clarity) but we are also partnered with PBA as one of the top-of-funnel engagements for their program applications.
What this means is that outstanding hackathon winners will have an opportunity to be fast tracked into getting accepted into PBA and continuing their builder journey from there. This has also been the case previously for the recent PBA intake, where a few of our hackathon winners from the recently concluded APAC edition were also accepted into the program itself.
We are currently consolidating the project winners and projects that have come out of our hackathons. We will update the comments here when we have that list :) I hope this helps answer the questions you might have when reviewing our proposal!