I'm really excited to finally 🚢 something big. Before I started working at GitHub, I was running hackathons. Organising them, mentoring at them, judging entries, and even participating.
I became known as the Hackathon Queen and have been involved in over 100 hackathons to date. People are always asking for tips and tricks when organising their hackathons. Organisers are also wanting lists of resources and examples of other people's work.
Instead of saying the same thing to every hackathon organiser, I thought I'd put something together to share with the world. Not only is it here to share with the world, I also created it so everyone can contribute to it.
Hackathon Tips, Tricks, and Resources
I present to you: Hackathon Tips, Tricks, and Resources.
Tips, Tricks, and Resources for running your hackathon.
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This repository contains Tips, Tricks, and Resources to help you plan, organise, and execute your hackathons. Hopefully you'll find these useful when planning your next hackathon.
There are three main sections in this repository:
🔮 Tips and Tricks
📚 Resources
📣 Discussions
Guidelines are detailed below on how to contribute to each of these documents. If there are any issues within this repo you'd like to flag, please open an issue.
Participating in a hackathon
Please note this repository is NOT geared towards participants. This repository contains information and guides for hackathon organisers and managers. It does not contain tips, tricks, or resources for participating in a hackathon.
If you are looking for a hackathon to participate in, and you want some guidance you can check out the following sites:
This is an open source repository containing lots of information for organisers. This is a curated list based on my own experiences in running multiple hackathons. The repo is set up to take contributions from others. It also has Discussions enabled, meaning organisers can come together and discuss issues, ask questions, find more resources, and share their own experiences.
I really wanted this resource to be available to everyone, but also welcoming of other people's feedback, thoughts, advice, and ideas. There are a lot of people out there with lots more experience so please feel free to share it around, make a pull request, or open a Discussion.
This is for the community and I encourage you to join the repo, star it, head into the Discussions, and download the resources for your use. If you have any questions, thoughts, or feedback, drop them below or feel free to open a Discussion!
Michelle Duke
