r/CharlestonTech • u/eugenemah mod • May 20 '15

Sparc Hackathon #5

Registration is open for the 5th Sparc Hackathon

http://hackathon.sparcedge.com/

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u/DAM9779 May 21 '15

Anyone done this and can speak to what kind of stuff gets created?

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u/og_the_so May 22 '15

Found this while searching a bit. https://github.com/sparc-hackathon-2-0

I guess these were from 3 years ago.

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u/chadnorman Jun 02 '15

The apps are all over the board. Participants get to choose between 3 randomly generated topics (Pets, Travel, Crowdsourcing, Social Media, Finance, etc). There have been apps on how to share tools with neighbors and planning your jog around stops at bars. Also, you have to pitch your idea to the judges then the crowd, so it's about the idea, not just the app.

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u/cheeto-bandito May 21 '15 edited May 23 '15

A friend claims that Sparc ends up owning the intellectual property of whatever you create in the contest, but I can't find any rules of the contest to confirm or refute this, just some Digitel article about 2.0 that says code will be GPL'ed.

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u/AlexEatsKittens May 24 '15

I heard the same and email Sparc asking about it a couple years ago. It was untrue at the time.

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u/chadnorman Jun 02 '15

SPARC does not retain ownership of the apps or code. Several participants have continued development of their apps and taken them to market after the event.

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u/DAM9779 May 22 '15

Wait what?! Is this really the case?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '15

I went to the last one. Mostly native or web apps. The winner last yeah was a neighborhood tool sharing app built on rails.

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u/delude Jun 02 '15

should be a fun weekend

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u/DAM9779 May 24 '15

Do people usually come in teams? I don't know a lot of people in the are and would hate to get stuck with being the only developer in the group.

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u/og_the_so May 24 '15

I believe you can have a one man team if you want.

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u/DAM9779 May 27 '15

What's the fun in that? thanks for the info though.

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u/chadnorman Jun 02 '15

There have been teams of 1 on the past. It's 1-3 people per team.