Sitecore Hackathon 2019

The 2019 Sitecore Hackathon is a free online community driven event organized by Akshay Sura and supported by Sitecore. (Shout out to Pieter and Mark).

Teams that have signed up by 6 pm EST February 15, 2019 will have the opportunity to participate in the contest. Eligible teams will have 24 hours — starting Friday March 1st 2019 at 8PM EST and ending Saturday March 2nd 2019 at 8PM EST – to build and submit a Sitecore module best implementing the idea for the Hackathon, as determined by our panel of judges. The idea(s) will be announced an hour before the Hackathon starts on March 1st.

We had to choose a date so that we can make sure the announcements can be made at the SUGCON EU 2019 on April 4th 2019 in London.

• 97 Teams participating
• Entries from over 25 countries
• Pictures from the 2019 Hackathon
• Winning Teams

Ideas for the hackathon:
– Best enhancement to the Sitecore Admin (XP) UI for Content Editors & Marketers
– Best enhancement to Sitecore Commerce Business Tools UI
– Best extension of the editing experience for SXA in Experience Editor
– Best use of SPE to help Content authors and Marketers
– Best enhancement to JSS to change a JSS component rendering behavior based on user’s session data
– Best use of xConnect and/or Universal Tracker

97 Teams from 25 countries:

1. Australia
2. Belarus
3. Belgium
4. Brasil
5. Canada
6. Denmark
7. Ecuador
8. Egypt
9. Germany
10. Hungary
11. India
12. Jordan
13. Mauritius
14. Netherlands
15. Pakistan
16. Poland
17. Portugal
18. Russia
19. Sri Lanka
20. Sweden
21. Turkey
22. UAE
23. UK
24. Ukraine
25. USA

All teams are required to submit the following as part of their entry submission on or before the end of the Hackathon on Saturday March 2nd 2019 at 8PM EST. The modules should be based on Sitecore 9.1 (Initial Release) unless your entry is commerce related, in which case you could use Sitecore Experience Platform 9.0 Update-2 with Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.0 Update-3.

• Sitecore 9.1 Module (Module install package) unless your entry is commerce related, in which case you could use Sitecore Experience Platform 9.0 Update-2 with Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.0 Update-3.
• Module Code in the Git source repository (Provided)
  • Cleanliness of code
  • Commenting where necessary
  • Code Structure
  • Standard coding standards & naming conventions
• Precise and Clear Installation Instructions document (1 – 2 pages)
• Module usage documentation on Readme.md file on the Git Repository (2 – 5 pages)
  • Module Purpose
  • Module Sitecore Hackathon Category
  • How does the end user use the Module?
  • Screenshots, etc.
• Create a 2 – 10 minutes video explaining the module’s functionality (A link to youtube video)
  • What problem was solved
  • How did you solve it
  • What is the end result

1. Community Judges
   • Michael Reynolds –
   • Kamruz Jaman –
   • Anders Laub –
   • Jason Wilkerson –
   • Mark Cassidy –
   • Neil Shack –
   • Una Verhoeven –
   • Alex Washtell –
   • Michael West –
2. Sitecore – TBD

The winning teams will each receive a $100 Amazon gift card per team member, making the total $300 per team for a three person team. The Amazon gift cards will be emailed to the email addresses on file no later than 10 days after the winning team is announced. If Amazon gift cards are not available in the region, alternate arrangements will be made.

We will showcase your company logo and/or your team photo on this website.

Bonus: Hedgehog is sponsoring prizes for this year’s Hackathon. Category winners will each receive 1 FREE license for TDS and 1 server license with 2 user count for Avtor per winning member of the winning team!

Bonus: Brimit is also sponsoring prizes this year to entice more teams to join the Sitecore Hackathon. Each winning member of the team will receive a FREE user registration for the SUGCON EU 2020 worth €350 per each member.

1. No purchase necessary.
2. Must 21 years or older at time of entry.
3. Additional terms, conditions and restrictions apply.