Our technical partners offer to solve tasks related to blocking circumvention, promoting VPNs, fighting censorship, and propaganda. Tasks are solved according to the “bounty-hunt” principle: each challenge has an assigned price – from $200 to $1000 for successful implementation. Teams will receive these cash prizes if the mentor (the technical partner in charge of the task) rates the work well.

This is an offline hackathon, so only teams or single participants who are personally present at the site can participate. The project must be completed and submitted to the jury no later than 5 days after the end of the hackathon. The jury makes a decision no later than 72 hours after the submission of the project.

A successfully solved task cannot be solved again by another team. The technology partner (team mentor) may ask to add something to the completed work before accepting your project. The technical partners reserve the right to decide whether a specific task is completed or not. Payment for a successfully completed task is transferred to a bank account, Paypal or Bitcoin.

Challenges for the hackathon

Challenges will be published no later than May 10th, 2023.

Hackathon guidelines

After registration, we invite participants to choose tasks (Challenges) and find a team. Communication during the hackathon takes place in general chat. Invitation to the chat will be received by registered participants by mail.

Before 18:00 (Riga time) May 19th, 2023

You need to register on the website, ticking the box to participate in the hackathon. Using the link in the email after registration, join the general chat of participants, select the task and find a team (single participants without a team can also solve the challenge).

May 19th, 2023 (Friday)

Opening of the Hackathon and setting of goals.

May 20th, 2023 (Saturday)

This is an offline hackathon. Teams are invited to the venue. The organizers allow no more than 2 remote participants in each team as an exception.

Following May 20th, 2023

Within 5 days after the hackathon (by May 25, 2023), teams must send the organizers a Challenge (a description of the work done in English and the code) for review and evaluation. The jury makes a decision no later than 72 hours after the submission of the project.

The technology partner (team mentor) may ask you to revise the challenge before accepting it.

Evaluation and selection of winners

The technology partners (task authors) will publish the results of the review and evaluation on the hackathon on the website. They reserve the right to decide whether the work on a particular task has been completed.

For successfully solved Challenges the organizers of the Hackathon will transfer a monetary prize to the team representative specified in the description of each Challenges. The funds are transferred to a bank account, Paypal or Bitcoin.

The total prize fund of the hackathon is $10,000.

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