API & Challenges available at food{hacks}

For more information on the event please check out the event description at our event page

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APIs & Datasets with a related challenges

We will announce challenges soon. There will be a dedicated prize for this challenges, dedicated for the best solution of the problem described in the challenge.

• HelloFresh Data Challenge
• HelloFresh API Challenge
• Metro Challenge
• Lidl Challenge
• Minodes Challenge

APIs provided by our API Partners

For this APIs there is no special API prizes.

• spoonacular
• Discounto
• Imagga
• P2PKit

Challenge & API Workshops at food{hacks}

This is prelimenary workshop schedule.The workshop will be hold in the workshop room at the Rainmaking Loft. The times and order are subject to change.

Time	Workshop Topic	Presenter
11:00	HelloFresh API Challenge Workshop	Pedro Carvalho
11:30	Metro Challenge Workshop	Vahid Gharavi
12:00	Lidl Challenge Workshop	Dr. Philipp Götting
12:30	Minodes Challenge Workshop	Alexander Mueller
13:00	Imagga API Workshop	Chris Georgiev
13:30	Spoonacular API Workshop	David Urbansky
14:00	P2PKit API Workshop	Samuel Schläpfer
14:00	Discounto API Workshop	Jan Dreger (Alex Mueller)

Information for API and Challenges Sponsors and Partners

A description should include the following:

Format of an API a description

1. General API description

• What is the content of data that can be retrieved
• Give an introduction to the general datamodel

2. Goal of the challenge (if you are a challenge sponsor)

• This should include the problem that you want to tackle.
• Do you want them to use your data in a specific way or should the challenge be more open.

3. Authentification

• Describe the way users should authentificate against the api, but do not provide credentials here if you don't want to let them be public.
• If your API is closed bring the api keys or logins to the event

4. API Route description

• Describe all routes of your api
• We suggest that you provide a postman collection of all api endpoints with example parameters

5. Coding examples

• One might include python, javascript and java as example languages

Format for the dataset description

1. General Dataset description

• What is the content of data that can be retrieved
• Give an introduction to the general datamodel

2. Goal of the challenge (if you are a challenge sponsor)

• This should include the problem that you want to tackle.
• Do you want them to use your data in a specific way or should the challenge be more open.

3. Detailed dataset description

• If you provide a csv or json, please describe what each fields means and what datatype it has
• When you plan to provide a database dump, describe possibilities to play it back in

Timeline

You want feedback on your challenge/API from us:

• 16. March 2016: Hand in challenge/api description including access to the dataset and or the API (or at least a description)
• 16. March 2016: Announce the challenge/api price to Hackerstolz Team
• 23. March 2016: Hand in a first version of workshop presentation
• 23. March 2016: Hand your job postings
• 29. March 2016: Tell organisation team who will act as corporate contact at the event and hand in the final presentation
• 1. • 3. April: Enjoy the Hackathon

You don´t want feedback:

• 16. March 2016: Announce challenge/api price to Hackerstolz Team
• 23. March 2016: Hand in challenge/api description including access to dataset and or API (or at least a description)
• 23. March 2016: Hand your job postings
• 29. March 2016: Hand workshop presentations
• 29. March 2016: Tell organisation team who will act as corporate contact at the event and hand in the final presentation
• 1. • 3. April: Enjoy the Hackathon