FR: Integrated Judging

[krubenok]

In a similar vein to #802, it seems like there's an opportunity to ingrate the project judging and submission process into the main API and dashboard. While Gavel has some excellent math behind it, the user management and project onboarding leave a lot to be desired. If the information is already present in the main API, it seems logical to integrate this functionality.

In terms of backend support, there'd be a few parts involved. This comes to mind as a start:

• Submitting a project by a team of hackers with all relevant fields to describe a project.
  • Open question of how this would work in hackathons where there is IRL expo style judging, seems cautious to also have everything submitted electronically.
  • This would remove the need to devpost which has always been a huge point of day of confusion for hackers on Sundays.
• Create a new role of user "judge" that could be superimposed onto other types of users (example: volunteers, organizers, and sponsors could also be judges in addition to their normal role)
• Similar to hacker admittance, implement similar math to gavel to record pairwise comparisons and product rankings
  • As a bonus implement support for sub-categories within the pairwise comparison for sponsor and category prizes
• Implement project querying and listing in the same manner that admins and browse the list of hackers.
• Implement support for prize claiming as part of the API
  • This (for the last 8 McHacks, I'm not even kidding) has been a huge point of annoyance for hackers who won prizes. Collecting addresses, delivery information, etc... when people have won a prize.

In terms of front end support, I expect that most of the UI would be very similar to the hacker admission UI for pairwise comparison so decent value for that work.

cc: @pierreTklein am I missing some things?

[brarsanmol]

I agree with the sentiment around this, once again I had a conversation with Logan about this. We have some of the groundwork laid out for submissions and such, we should integrate our own version of judging (Gavel development has plateaued so I don't for-see any groundbreaking changes occurring there).

I don't foresee this is as something that dev team can take on for the 2022 - 2023 year, more long term.

Edit: Also — should we focusing on deprecating DevPost? It seems like the go-to platform to find Hackathons now, and from using the platform if used correctly it provides a lot of exposure and traffic of Hackathon's. I personally have found a couple interesting Hackathon's from it and have signed up. I think we should shift our focus from only using DevPost as a submission platform to a platform for promotion as well.

I believe there is a feature on DevPost where you can set your Hackathon as accepting applications until X date and redirect to your own applications platform, not sure if McHacks is using that currently.