#SPRINGathon2019

Dear business and creative folks, programmers and developers, journalists, product visionaries and subject matter experts, we are happy to invite all of you to our first SPRING Hackathon! Take part in this year’s challenge to hack the GROWTH code, and test and explore new ideas, meet colleagues from other teams and get inspired.

The Topic

With this year’s topic we want to explore how we can grow with new ideas. Key questions are: How can we reach teens with our products? How can we expand classic written news into other channels and media forms, such as video and audio products? And how do we enable further growth of our premium brands in this regard?

Jury Price Categories:

Best Code:

The team was able to transform their idea into a new, fully functional application trough their exceptional coding skills.

Best Business Idea:

The team impresses with a mature business idea that is scalable and easy to implement.

Best Innovation:

The team developed a concept that stands out from the others, as it solves a problem in a unique way. Truly out of the box thinking!

Audience Prices:

Best Pitch

The team was able to pare it down to the essentials and used their 3 min pitch time in the most entertaining, convincing and extraordinary way.

WTF-Price:

Just too crazy to put into words.

The winners for Code, Idea, Business and Pitch are eligible to win the Main Prize.

This will be publicly voted by all of Spring at the After Hackathon Event.

The Jury will be given a beforehand briefing and will base their decisions on criteria like DESIGN, CREATIVITY, EXECUTION and USABILITY, weighted with the respective main focus of the different prizes.

all Jury decisions are final!

1. Participation

The SPRINGathon is for everyone working at Spring and other invited Axel Springer subsideries! You can participate as developer as well as designer, concept developer, researcher, product owner, business guy or a journalist. You don't need to be a professional; you will be working in a team. To participate in the hackathon you have to get your free ticket on our Eventbrite page.

2. Competition Rules

2.1 Prior to the hackathon’s beginning, feel free to work on your ideas, digital mockups and other preparative things. Note: no coding should be done beforehand. Of course we love initiative work and ambitious spirits – but to be fair, we like everyone to start at the same level.

2.2 If you already have code projects you would like to extend, please disclose this at the project presentation, so that the judges can take this fact into account when deciding on the winners.

2.3 Teambuilding will be done at the beginning of SPRINGathon. We want to have teams consisting of people from different departments.

2.4 Teams can consist from 2 up to 5 members, an ideal size is 4-5. Teams should not include more than 2 members from the same department. The teams have full ownership of everything they build at our event and are free to do with it as they wish. If you like to make your project open source, then this is up to you, but this decision is to be made by your team.

2.5 Prices are planned for teams of max 5 members.

2.6 After team forming, each team must list their project as soon as possible on our GitHub Space, please name one person in charge of documenting!

2.7 The hack presentations should be functional product demos of your work and – please – not only powerpoint slides (you’re hackers here, not marketeers, so please be creative…! ;-) )

3. House Rules and Code of Conduct

3.1 We are happy to be guests at the facilities of betahaus NEUKÖLLN. They provide rooms, food, drinks and technical infrastructure, which make this hackathon possible.

3.2 Please use their equipment with respect and tidy up after yourself. Please use the provided internet connection in a legally fitting manner. Don’t hack into secured resources or download illegal media content. If we find out about misuse we will disqualify you and your team. In the case of severe misdoing we will bring you to the attention of the authorities.

3.3 Our hackathon is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, previous hackathon attendance or computing experience (or lack of any of the aforementioned). We do not tolerate harassment of hackathon participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate at any hackathon venue, including hacks, talks, workshops, parties, social media and other online media. Hackathon participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the hackathon without a refund (if applicable) at the discretion of the hackathon organisers. If you experience any kind of harassment you can contact. mail us

3.4 Photos will be taken at the event. The participants agree that the images may be used for communication afterwards, on the SPRINGathon website, internal Axel Springer and SPRING media or on websites of the partners. If you do not want to be photographed in a specific situation, please contact the photographer.

4. API’s / Data

The provided data and API’s are only allowed for use during the SPRINGathon. Any further use is not permitted and must be agreed separately with SPRING and the respective partner company. In the event of violation, we reserve the right to take legal action.