Outcome
The outcome is broken down into an overall objective and sub-objectives to make it more clear as this deliverable will run over a few months.
- Objective: Deliver a successful hybrid Hackathon in which teams of developers can compete on making one or multiple open-source libraries of their choice more energy-efficient. The winner receives a price money (part of the project budget)
- Identify a suitable date and confirm it with UBA as well as the BMWK (economic ministry) for the location. Concept for the Hackathon is written and signed-off by the UBA/BMWK.
- Hackathon website as well as supporting material is created and promotion is underway. Physical Hackathon location is set up and fully confirmed. Partners & SAWE/SDIA community are engaged to promote and expand the reach of the event.
- Event is delivered and well documented (videos, photos, articles) as well as the results of the Hackathon is published and promoted. Price money is paid out as a donation and winnerโs are widely celebrated and promoted.
Product/results
Publishable content
Supporting material
- What is a hybrid hackathon: Teams can show up in virtual setting (Zoom with breakout rooms) or at a physical location. They are not necessarily connected to each other, but only at the end when the winner is announced
- There will be a scoreboard that shows which team has implemented the highest improvement in energy efficiency within the library they have chosen
- We need an independent Jury to review the results and declare the winner. The jury will have 5 members. Half of the members will come from Academia and half from the software engineering practice.
- We probably need to set a rule that the improvement can not be in adapting the tests themselves (that would be cheating)
- We need to have our test laboratory in place by then, because they will need to test their results all on the same system so that the results are comparable
- We focus on a % of improvement, not actual energy use (to make it comparable and someone can actually win)
- Price money can be converted into a donation e.g. for open-source developers wanting to improve the energy efficiency of their libraries (use the same money pool tool that chris adams is using) [Award, make it more open where I can donate the money]
- It will likely be a good idea to time the event from afternoon to evening (say 16:00 - 20:00) to enable people from different time zones to participate and to have people attend next to their normal day jobs
- Minimal criteria for the library that people are selecting for the Hackathon โ use the same criteria as for our test objects
Budget
Sachkosten | 1 | |
Price money 1. Hackathon | ST | 1.700,00 โฌ |
Price money 2. Hackathon (optional) | ST | 1.700,00 โฌ |
Material for 1. Hackathon | ST | 250,00 โฌ |
Material for 2. Hackathon (optional) | ST | 250,00 โฌ |
Project Website & Hackathon Event Website | ST | 6.500,00 โฌ |