emmanuelkehinde / kora_oau_2018

Official submission repository for the 2018 Kora Hackathon held at OAU, Ile-Ife.

The Kora Hackathon - July 2018 - OAU, Ife

Welcome to the 2018 Kora Hackathon held at OAU, Ife.
The Kora Hackathon is an initiative organized by Kora Network in partnership with Quidax Technologies, to foster entrepreneural innovation and groom technical talent in the Nigerian FinTech space.

Objectives and Rules

• Attendees can participate individually or in teams of at most 3 team members and teams can be formed prior to the Hackathon.
• Attendees are responsible for coming to the event with their FinTech related ideas. The Hackathon organizers and partners may also provide teams potential ideas to work on and offer prizes to the best team. Example applications include innovations in crypto-currencies, trading, investing, personal finance, retail banking, mobile payments, regulatory compliance, risk management, enterprise social, etc.
• Attendees are at liberty to use any open APIs and platforms from technology partners will be made available during the Hackathon.
• Attendees will about 36 hours coding, validating their ideas, networking and then demoing their hacks to a panel of judges. See the timetable schedule below for details.
• All 'developer code' submitted as part of the teams' entry must be written/implemented on-site at the event, over the course of the hackathon and will be further reviewed to judge the winner.

Winner Selection and Judging Criteria

The winners of the contest will be selected by a panel of judges ("Judges") assembeled by the hackathon organizers.

Winners will be judged based on the following criteria:

1. Innovative nature of the solution.
2. Utility of the product.
3. Technical and design quality of the implementation/approach applied.
4. Special consideration will be given to entries based on the following criteria: - Level of technical skill and acumen displayed by the participants. We are on the lookout ;) - Degree to which the process of development was collaborative (i.e. did you work with other contestants or team members to improve your submission? Any technical tools and workflows you apply to improve your collaborative process?) - Besides the winning price, opportunity for recruitment also exists for the participants, based on the level of the technical talent displayed.

Note: By submitting any Kora Hackathon Entry, entrants release FinTech Hackathon, Sponsors, their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, representatives, agents, and advisors from any and all liability for any claims, costs, injuries, losses, or damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the decisions of the Judges.

Getting started

After completing the initial team/participant registration with the organizers, each team lead (or individual) should proceed with the following setup steps:

1. Join the Slack group created for the purpose of this hackathon https://join.slack.com/t/korahackathon/shared_invite/enQtNDA1MzU2NzIwNzM2LWMyZWFiZTc1MWQxYmY1MGI1ZWQ1ZmFiMTg1YWE2MmQ2OTk3NWNhODcyMGUyNTA3NGUyNmIxYWYzNWY0OWM3NDQ

2. Create your own Fork of the Submission Repo (https://github.com/korahackathon/kora_oau_2018/) to your team lead's github account. To do this, the team lead should simply click the 'fork' button in the top right (On the Submission Repo).

3. You should update the team_info.md file on your own fork repo with information of you team and the solution you are building as outlined for you there.

4. On your own fork, create a team branch in the format team_<your team name> (note it is underscore-seprated). For example, if you name your team "Bad Like That", then the team branch you will create would be team_bad_like_that.

5. Add your team members to your forked repo and proceed to build your solution by on that your fork. Note that eventually, all code should be merged back into team branch you created as that's the only branch that will be submitted and reviewed.

6. Note that during the course of the hackathon, the judges might be checking in your repos and also on-site to get friendly feelers about what your doing and how it's going. It's no biggie, we just wanna say hi ;)

Still not sure how to do this? Please reach out to any of the organizers on the Slack channel.

Submission

To submit your solution for review:

1. Go to the Submission Repo (https://github.com/korahackathon/kora_oau_2018/) and confirm that a branch named exactly as the team branch your created on your own fork exists there (It should have been created automatically for you by the judges). If it hasn't, send a message on the Slack channel to them and it will be done for you.
2. On your own team's forked repo, click on the New Pull Request button. On the Comparing changes page that shows after, confirm that:

• base fork: is set to korahackathon/kora_oau_2018.
• base: branch is set to your team branch on the submission repo.
• head fork: is set to your team's forked repo where you build your solution.
• compare: is set to you team branch on your forked repo. For example, if your team is "Team Elvis" and your team branch is named team_elvis then it would be something like: (See link here)

1. Click on the Create pull request button to submit it. The judges will take up review from there.

Still not sure how to do this? Please reach out to any of the organizers on the Slack channel or follow the Github guide https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork/

Intellectual Property Rights

All submissions to the Kora Hackathon remain the intellectual property of the individuals or organizations that developed them. However, by registering, consenting to the terms of the Hackathon, and entering a Submission, the Participant agrees that the organizers and technology partners reserve an irrevocable, nonexlusive, royalty-free license to use, distribute to the public, and publicly display and perform a Submission for a period of one year starting on the date of the announcement of contest winners (July 28, 2018) as an example of work. Participants are always encouraged to open source their projects to both share their hacks with the greater community and promote innovation in this space.

Protecting Intellectual Property

By submitting a Kora Hackathon Entry or accepting any prize, you represent and warrant the following: (a) you will not submit content that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the content and to grant Kora Hackathon all of the rights granted herein; (b) you will not publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage Kora Hackathon , Sponsors, or any third party; (c) you will not submit content that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate or destructive to Kora Hackathon 's or Sponsors' brand image or goodwill; (d) you will not post advertisements or solicitations of business; (e) Kora Hackathon will not be obligated to pay any compensation to, or permit any participation by, any third party in connection with the use, reproduction, modification, publication, display or other exploitation of any of the content that you submit; and (f) the content submitted by you does not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms or other disabling devices or harmful code.

By posting or submitting a Kora Hackathon Entry to the Contest (regardless of the form or medium of such content), you hereby grant Kora Hackathon , Sponsors, their respective affiliates, and their affiliates' agents and third party contractors, without additional consideration, a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non- exclusive right and license, with the right to sublicense, to discuss, publicize, market and otherwise display content derived from or relating to the Kora Hackathon Entry ("Marketing Content"), and to distribute and use such Marketing Content for promotional and marketing purposes (either in the form submitted or in the form of a derivative or adapted work). You understand that you will not receive any compensation or credit for use of your Kora Hackathon Entry, other than what is described in these Official Contest Rules.

Copyright

Participant represents and warrants that he or she is the sole author and copyright owner of the Submission, and that the Submission is an original work of the Participant, or if the Submission is a work based on an existing application, that the Participant has acquired sufficient rights to use and to authorize others, including the Kora Hackathon , to use the Submission, as specified in the “Intellectual Property Rights” section of the Rules; and that the Submission does not infringe upon any copyright or upon any other third party rights of which the Participant is aware, and that the Submission is free of malware.