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Hacktoberfest Hack Day Baku x Tea && Compile

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One Saturday. One café. Your idea, built with AI.

Hacktoberfest 2026 is about open-source AI, and this Hack Day is for people who would rather build than watch. Bring a half-baked idea (or none at all) and by 15:00 you’ll have something running, in front of a room of people who get it.

HOW THE DAY WORKS

  • Come solo or with friends. Teams of up to 3, formed on the spot if you need one.
  • Pick your own idea: a bot, a script, a tool, an agent, a weird experiment. If you built it and it uses AI, it counts.
  • Use whatever helps you build: open-weight models, open-source tools, or an AI coding assistant. Projects that are open source and use open-weight models get extra love in the final vote.
  • At the end, push your project to a public repo (we’ll help if it’s your first time) and show a 2-minute demo.
  • No judging panel. Friendly demos, and the room votes for its favourites.

DETAILS
📅 Saturday, October 17, 2026
🕙 10:00–15:00
📍 CoffeeLea Atatürk, Baku
💸 Free to attend.
👥 Limited seats (it’s a café!)
🎒 Bring: a laptop, a charger, a GitHub account (or we’ll set one up at the door)

WHO IT’S FOR
Students, graduates, developers and self-taught tinkerers, 18+. Never touched an AI API before? Perfect, that’s exactly who we’re hoping for.

Hosted by Tea && Compile, a new open-source and Linux community in Baku.

Challenges

Best Use of Gemma 4

It’s time to see how much you can build with a lightweight, open model. Gemma 4 packs multimodal intelligence into an open-weights model that you can access through the Gemini API. So, what can Gemma 4 bring to your project?

  • Multimodal Experience: Work with text and images to create an assistant that understands more of what users share.
  • Focused AI Tools: Build a focused AI tool for learning, creativity, productivity, or your community.
  • Rapid Prototyping: Experiment with an open model while using the Gemini API to move quickly from an idea to a working prototype.

Bring your idea to life… what will you build with Gemma 4 today?

Best Open-Source AI Project

Build an original project that uses open-source or open-weight AI as an important part of how it works. Teams could create an agent skill, build with an open-weight large or small language model, or build or adapt an open-source model harness. These are examples within one challenge, and teams may combine them.

Open-source or open-weight AI must be an important part of the project.

The project must be published in a public GitHub repository and use an open-source license.

An agent skill must comply with the Agent Skill Open Standard.

A model-harness entry must include an original implementation or meaningful changes to an existing open-source harness.

Add Submission

Submissions aren’t open for this event.