HackNLP

These Terms & Conditions are intended to regulate the relationship between DEPARTAMENT D’ENGINYERIA I SERVEIS I SISTEMES D’INFORMACIÓ (hereinafter, “ESSI-UPC”) and the Hackers who decide to participate in the event HackNLP organized by ESSI-UPC.

For the purposes of this Agreement, the parties agree that, when used capitalized herein, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless they are otherwise defined in this Agreement.

The “Organizer” refers to ESSI-UPC with address at C/ Jordi Girona, num. 1-3, Campus Nord UPC, Edifici Omega, 08034, Barcelona (Spain).

The “Hacker” refers to any person who decides to sign up accepting these T&C and participates in the event organized by the Organizer by competing in the Hacktaton.

The event “HackNLP” refers to the Event organized by the Organizer, which is a Hackathon.

By virtue of this Agreement the Participant or Attendee agrees to participate in the event HackNLP organized by ESSI-UPC, a hackathon based on the OpenReq project components and NLP/ML technologies.

1. There is no minimum team size, however, the maximum size is 3 people. There will be 1 prize for each member of the team, independently of the team size.
2. Teams should be made up exclusively of students (or recent graduates within one year of having graduated).
3. All team members should be present at the event.
4. All work on a project should be done at the Hackathon.
5. Teams can work on an idea that they have worked on before (as long as they do not re-use code).
6. Teams can use libraries, frameworks, or open-source code in their projects. Working on a project before the event and open-sourcing it for the sole purpose of using the code during the event is against the spirit of the rules and is not allowed.
7. Adding new features to existing projects (especially components introduced by OpenReq development) is allowed. Judges will only consider new functionality introduced or new features added during the Hackathon in determining the winners.
8. Teams must stop hacking once the time is up.
9. 14. Teams can be disqualified from the competition at the organizers’ discretion. Reasons might include but are not limited to breaking the Competition Rules, breaking the Code of Conduct, or other unsporting behaviour.
10. Prizes might be declared deserts under criteria of the Organizer.

Demos

After hacking finishes, teams will show their projects to the judges. Presentations cannot last more than 5 minutes.

You are strongly encouraged to present a demo of what you have built. Pitches or presentations are discouraged. You are not judged on the quality of your pitch or the quality of your idea.

Judging Criteria

Teams will be judged on these three criteria. Judges will weigh the criteria equally. During judging, participants should try to describe what they did for each criterion in their project.

• Results: How good are the results with the respect to the challenge the project tries to solve? Are they better/equal/worse than the ones provided? Are there any remarkable improvements?
• Efficiency: Is it an efficient solution? Does it only work at a small PoC or could it be extend to a bigger, general, realistic UC? Has this dimension been considered while building the solution?
• Innovation: Does the project contributes in some way on the filed the challenge is based on? Which are the main features of the proposal? Do they provide an improvement on the solution?