
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Istanbul x Hadith Tech
🚀 A One-Day Open Source Hackathon & Hacktoberfest Celebration!
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مسابقة برمجية بالعربي للحديث عن التقنية وكيفية التقدم في المستوى التقني الحالي
Rules
📅 Tomorrow’s Event Schedule:
🕘 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Arrival & Registration 📍
🥐 9:30 – 10:00 AM | Breakfast ☕
🚀 10:00 – 11:00 AM | Program Kickoff 🎤
💻 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | First Coding Session 👨💻
🍽️ 1:00 – 2:00 PM | Lunch Break
⚡ 2:00 – 4:00 PM | Second Coding Session 🔥
📝 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Project Evaluation 🏆
🥇 5:00 – 6:00 PM | Winner Announcement & Closing Ceremony 🎉
🏆 Project Evaluation Criteria
Each project will be evaluated based on the following criteria, with a maximum score of 10 points per criterion.
| Criteria | Maximum Score |
|---|---|
| 🎨 Design | 10 |
| 📱 UI/UX | 10 |
| 💻 Working Project & Functionality | 10 |
| 💡 Idea & Creativity | 10 |
| ⚙️ Tech Stack & Implementation | 10 |
| Total | 50 Points |
Evaluation Guidelines
- Design: Visual quality, consistency, and overall aesthetics.
- UI/UX: Ease of use, accessibility, and user experience.
- Working Project: Functionality, completeness, and stability of the project.
- Idea: Originality, creativity, and problem-solving value.
- Tech Stack: Effective use of technologies, code quality, and technical implementation.
🏆 The project with the highest total score out of 50 points wins!
Note: Projects without a live demo will not be checked.
⚖️ Meet the Hackathon Judges
Meet our judges for the Open Source Hackathon & Hacktoberfest! 🚀
| Abdelrahman Ismail | Abdurrahman Rajab | Ahmad Al-Ali | Jamal Mohafi |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👨⚖️ | |||
| @ismail9k | @a0m0rajab | @JamalMohafil |
🏆 Good luck to all participants!
Build, collaborate, and contribute to open source! 🚀
Prize Categories
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Best Open-Source AI Project
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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.
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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?
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Tech for good
Your challenge is to use tech to solve a local or global problem
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