Akashathon

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Hackathon #1 Kick off call this week

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Moved kickoff call to 2/6

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Done:

• WG kick off call
• Dorahacks kick off call

Next:

• Review support applications
• Set next WG call

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Working on followups

• sponsorships
• judges
• workshops
• website launch

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Setting hackathon tracks call this week Speaking with Jackal abot "sponsored track"

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Hackathon tracks drafted Finalize tracks by EOW Create dorahacks RSVP page by EOW early next Hackathon kickoff by 4/8

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• Sent Hackathon tracks to Dorahacks to create Website for hacker registrations
• This week working on locking in kick off event for 4/8 and weekly workshops

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Website is LIVE Adding sponsored tracks - Secret & maybe Jackel Kick off event next week monday 2 workshops scheduled w/scott and anil scheduling more workshops

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Hackathon is LIVE: https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/akashathon2/detail

Hosted kick off events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDAvBnf6ZYM

Might add a few more judges and sponsored tracks

Adding one more track in 1-2 weeks

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Working on adding 2 more hackathon tracks (by eow) 67 hackers have signed up Hosting Akash workshop with week (weekly workshops)

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84 hackers have signed up Prep work for judging 4 weeks to go

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• added Filebase track
• added Citadel One judge
• 107 hackers registered
• No Akash submissions yet.
• 6 sponsored track submissions (none are good though)
• Workshop this Thursday
• Working on adding another workshop

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5th workshop schedule for May 8th

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• 11 days left.
• 2 workshops this week
• Dorahacks says most project submissions come in 3-4 days before the hackathon is over.
• Getting lots of conversations in the Discord for Fiat andAI/GPU tracks.

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164 registrations 3 Submissions qualified (out of 17)

Working on Judges submission review period Finalist demo day - Livestream

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197 registrations 21 projects+ adding a few late submission projects

Demo day is Wednesday Aiming to announce winners on Thursday

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Hackathon ended Winners announced in Dorahacks website https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/akashathon2/results

Payments are being sorted out by Dorahacks, followed up Sponsor tracks payment are handle by the sponsors, followed up

Scheduled call with George from Dorahacks to sync up post hackathon

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I just got off with a call with George from Dorahacks to recap about how Akashathon went

The good

• Payouts are done
• 20+ builds submitted and 11 finalist selected
• Decent Workshops offering for the participants

The not so good

• Not a lot of promotion by Akash in their Social Media and related channels
• Other big events going on (Akash accelerate) could’ve impacted the performance of the hackathon

Recommendations

• Do Quadratic Funding rounds with the finalist to keep the momentum going
• Get community more involved and push in social media

About Quadratic funding

Dorahacks would like Akash to have its first Quadratic funding round with the finalist

They recommend a 50k USD prize pool and other details we can ask Dorahacks

Do you think we should pursue a quadratic round for the finalist or keep this for the next Akashathon happening this year?