FutureForge

1. **Do I need to pay any money to register for the Hackathon?**
Yes, a registration fee of Rs.500 (for Non IEEE computer society members) and Rs.200 (For IEEE computer Society members) will be collected.

2. **Do I need to have any specific qualifications to be a participant for the Hackathon?**
If you love to code, you are more than welcome to participate in the Hackathon.

3. **What is needed for me to submit the idea?**
First, each member has to individually register on the website. Participants must have a scanned copy of your ID card and the payment receipt. After registration, team head can form your team as per the webpage instructions and submit the PPT. The PPT should have the following slides - title, theme, team members, idea explanation, video link (8 minutes max) of the idea explained by the team.

4. **Do we need to have the entire idea fully working?**
The entire idea need not be fully implemented however, the submission should be functional so that the judges can review it.

5. **How is the environment? Will your environment support any language? Will you provide any IDE and DB for us to work on ideas?**
You have to develop the entire software application on your local system and submit it on HackerEarth in tar/zip file format along with instructions to run the application and source code for the final prototype submission.

6. **Does one have to be online and available for the entire duration of the Hackathon?**
No, one does not need to be logged in on HackerEarth or be online for the entire duration. You can develop the application on your local system based on the given themes and then submit it on HackerEarth on the specific challenge page.

7. **Since there is no specific technology mentioned, are there any restrictions on using number of pre-built libraries?**
There is no restriction to use any language, technology stack, or libraries. You can use any of them to create the web/mobile application.

8. **Do I need to give a demo for the product that I have built?**
If you want you can submit a small presentation or video that demos your submission, In case you are one of the winners, you might be invited to demo your application at the physical event.

9. **A complete application needs a solid backend for data storage like SQL, SharePoint etc. since its online, is it acceptable to show only the prototype ?**
Yes it's absolutely fine to submit just the prototype. If you use any database like MySQL or PostgresSQL you can also submit a database dump along with your submission. However you are allowed to submit just the prototype.

10. **If it is a team submission, does that mean all team members will have access to work at the same time?**
Yes, all team members can login from their account and do application submission on HackerEarth.

11. **Who will own the IP(Intellectual Property) Rights to the product that I have built?**
The developer/developers of the web/mobile application will have all rights and own the IP of the product. However, all code needs to be in public domain (open source) so that the judges can evaluate it.