Spend a week hacking with the Major League Hacking (MLH) community at GHW: Cloud Week!
What is Global Hack Week?
Global Hack Week takes place throughout the year to give you a chance to complete technical challenges, network with the community, enjoy fun live sessions, build technical projects, and make new memories.
We'll have challenges, live technical sessions with MLHers, mini-events galore, and some cool content from our partners! Here’s a sneak peek:
At each Global Hack Week, you can:
⭐ Watch live technical streams
⭐ Participate in skill-building workshops
⭐ Join us for fun activities
⭐ Enter and win swag in raffles
What is Cloud Week?
Each GHW features a new theme, and this December we're spending a week of 50+ events designed to help you explore Cloud techologies.
Who is GHW for?
Global Hack Week is for anyone ready to level-up their hacking skills. We welcome all programmers, designers, artists, and hackers from around the globe to join us for these events. Whether this is is day 1 or day 1000 of your hacker journey, we want you to join us!
Can I get swag at this event?
Yes, of course! Each Global Hack Week will feature some amazing 2023 Hackathon Season swag…you’ll have to participate to find out exactly what you’re getting!
What is a Guild? How can I be a part of it?
One of the best parts of our community is that it allows people to meet and make connections with others, regardless of where you live. guilds are smaller communities within Major League Hacking. Whether you come in with a guild or not, you won’t be hacking alone.
Who organizes Global Hack Week?
Global Hack Week is organized by Major League Hacking (MLH). It is our mission to empower hackers worldwide by providing them with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to succeed.
Requirements
1) Your challenge submission must be completed within the submission period.
2) When relevant, your code must be available in some sort of public repository.
3) If you're continuing work on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on before Global Hack Week.
Prizes
Set up a Website
Set up a website with a custom GoDaddy Registry domain name!
Use promo code MLHGHWDEC23 . Check out https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-godaddyregistry
Deploy the ChatCloudflare Application
Want to give Cloudflare Workers AI a try? This repo can help you get started quickly with a chat application built using Next.js, Tailwindcss and Workers AI. Based on Nashex's wonderful GPT-4 Playground repo. Visit https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-cloudflare-app
Deploy a Cloudflare Pages or Workers application using C3 & the framework of your choice.
Deploy a Cloudflare Pages or Workers application using C3 & the framework of your choice.
C3 is a command-line tool designed to help you set up and deploy new applications to Cloudflare! It makes leveraging your Cloudflare account easy and hassle free!
Not sure what framework to use? Check out Hono at hono.dev. Visit https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-cloudflare-c3
Make a request to an LLM from your new application
If you've completed all of the previous Cloudflare challenges, you should have a working Cloudflare Pages or Workers application deployed to the cloud! Using Workers AI, we want you to make a programmatic request to an LLM! Checkout the linked documentation for some sample code to get you started. Check out https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-cloudflare-llm
Complete the GitHub Copilot Primer
Wondering how to get started with Codespaces? This Primer makes it easy by giving you the templates, videos and step-by-step resources you need to get you started running, testing, debugging and pushing code using this instant cloud developer environment. Check out - https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-github-copilot
Use GitHub actions to automate your website deployment
GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that allows you to automate your build, test, and deployment pipeline. You can create workflows that build and test every pull request to your repository, or deploy merged pull requests to your live website.Check out - https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-github-actions
The Most Innovative Startup Idea challenge
"Follow the steps below to complete The Most Innovative Startup Idea challenge! - https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-googlecloud-startups
1) Come up with startup idea
2) Purchase a domain and create an email forward i.e. setup username@business.com to forward to your personal email.
3) If you do not yet have a Google Cloud Console account, sign up using your @business.com email address.
4) Apply here using the same email in Step 3 or apply by visiting goo.gle/mlh"
Create a Hack to Share Photos on the Cloud
Build any project that allows someone to share photos via the cloud! Submit on hackp.ac/ghwdevpost
Twilio Challenge 2
Twilio Challenge 2: Send a Hello World email using the SendGrid API and a language helper library of your choice.
Check out https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-twilio-challenge2 for more instructions and submit on Devpost!
Twilio Challenge 3
Twilio Challenge 3: Using NASA's Mars Rover Photos API, modify your code to send an email containing a random picture taken from the Mars Rover.
Check out https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-twilio-challenge3 for more instructions and submit on Devpost!
Twilio Challenge 4
Twilio Challenge 4: Authenticate a domain name for your Twilio SendGrid account, so that you can use it as a verified sender.
Check out https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-twilio-challenge4 for more instructions and submit on Devpost!
Twilio Challenge 5
Twilio Challenge 5: Configure a SendGrid Inbound Parse webhook. Don't forget to set the MX record on your domain!
Check out https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-twilio-challenge5 for more instructions and submit on Devpost!
Twilio Challenge 6
Twilio Challenge 6: Write code using the language of your choice to receive incoming emails and log information associated with it to the console, such as the subject line and the addresses the email was sent to and from. Here is an example using Node.js.
Check out https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-twilio-challenge6 for more instructions and submit on Devpost!
Twilio Challenge 7
Twilio Challenge 7: Now combine all of the steps together to recreate the application from this blog post (using a language/framework of your choice), in which a user can send an email to an address and get a response containing photos from the Mars Rover.
Check out https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-twilio-challenge7 for more instructions and submit on Devpost!
Deploy a project using GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that takes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files straight from a repository on GitHub, optionally runs the files through a build process, and publishes a website. Try it out today and deploy a website using a new or existing GitHub repository. Visit- https://hackp.ac/ghwcloud-github-pages
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Major League Hacking
Judging Criteria
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There's no judging and there are no winners at GHW!
GHWs are week long hacker festivals for you to learn, share and explore!
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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