Mattermost Bot Hackfest

1. Do I need to pay any money to register for the Hackathon?

No. You do not have to pay anything to anyone to register yourself for any Hackathon on HackerEarth.

2. Do I need to have any specific qualifications to be a participant for the Hackathon?

No qualifications required. If you love to code, you are more than welcome to participate in the Hackathon!

3. How do I submit what I have made for the Hackathon?

You have to develop the bot on your local system, submit it to this Mattermost GitHub repository as a pull request and finally submit a link to the pull request on HackerEarth to count as a participant. Mattermost will use the GitHub repository entry to review the submission. See the repository for submission guidelines. While not mandatory, you’re encouraged to tweet your participation with hashtag #hackmattermost - Mattermost will retweet you back!

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 it can be reviewed by the judges.

5. What is the recommended environment? Will your environment support any language? Will you provide any IDE and DB for us to work on ideas?

See Mattermost developer documentation for tips on setting up your developer environment. You can use any language to develop the bot. There won’t be an IDE or DB provided for you.

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 bot 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 your bot.

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, however it's not mandatory, and only nice to have. In case you are one of the winners, you might be invited to demo your bot at a virtual or physical event, details of which will be shared with sufficient advance notice. Such an invitation would not be mandatory to accept.

9. 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 log in from their account and do a submission on HackerEarth.

10. If it is a team submission, does that mean all team members will get the prize?

Monetary prize will be allocated equally among all team members, but each member of the winning teams receives the Happy Hacking Keyboard and a Mattermost Swag Kit where applicable.

11. Who will own the IP (Intellectual Property) Rights to the product that I have built?

The intellectual property of your code belongs to your team. However, the developer/developers of the top 3 solutions may be welcomed to transfer the repository (if one exists) under the https://github.com/mattermost/desktop . During this process, the developer/developers would also sign a Mattermost contributor license agreement (CLA).