Take Back the Web Virtual Hackathon
What are Virtual hackathons?
Well, this has the same definition as traditional hackathons that bring together members to form teams and tackle provided issues while creating solutions to identified problems. However, Virtual hackathons are way better in the sense that they allow people from any part of the world to participate in the hackathon remotely (from the comfort of their rooms)…Sounds interesting right? Interested hackers sign up for the hackathon and are immediately invited to an online community where they create or join teams. The projects can be built and managed by members from different geographic locations by using tools like Discord or Slack for effective team communication and Github as the version control system.
Virtual hackathons have gone on to increase teamwork spirit among individuals, encourage diversity both geographically and culturally and also significantly promote networking and greater bonds among hackers. Therefore virtual hackathons have gone on to increase the quality of products being built while also reducing costs incurred in traditional hackathons.
Gitcoin Hackathons
Gitcoin has reeled out the first virtual hackathon of the year titled “Take Back The Web”. This is as a succession to virtual hackathons that have been held in the past year including:
- Ethereal Virtual hackathon held in April,2019(see prizes here)
- Beyond Blockchain hackathon held in June, 2019(see prizes here )
- Grow Ethereum hackathon held in July,2019(see prizes here)
- Ethereal Blocks hackathon held in August,2019(see prizes here)
- Road to Devcon hackathon held in October,2019 prior to the Devcon V conference in Osaka,Japan (see prizes here)
- Web3 World hackathon held in November,2019(see prizes and projects here)
And now, Take Back the Web will run from 9th of January— 23rd of January,2020(2 weeks of intensive online hacking and collaboration) Check out the prize explorer to see the bounties posted by Status, MetaMask, ETC Labs, Infura, Blockstack, Kickback, and Sablier.
You can also see information about upcoming hackathons on gitcoin here
Long Live the Web3 community!
