Hacktoberfest Hack Day Linz x Young AI Leaders Linz
Join us at JKU Linz on October 30 for Austria's exclusive MLH Hacktoberfest Hack Day, a free, beginner-friendly mini-hackathon where students and professionals build open-source AI prototypes without the sleepless nights. Team up to experiment with partner tools from Google Gemma, Lovable, and ElevenLabs, receive hands-on mentorship, and compete for unique Major League Hacking swag and prizes.
Prize category
Best Open-Source AI Project
Exclusive Hacktoberfest 2026 Winner DEV Badge & MLH Swag Bag
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.