On December 30th 2022, 180 hackers from around the world travelled to the Delhi NCR for Epoch — a 42-hour high-school hackathon over New Year's. With clubs & hackers in 130+ countries, Hack Club is a truly global community. After many magical summer events in the USA, Epoch was Hack Club's first flagship event outside of the United States. The Hack Club community came together to organise Epoch, the goal of this repository is to document that journey for future organisers to reference.
Epoch was organised in public on the Hack Club Slack by dozens of Hack Clubbers. We've kept them open for your exploration. Looking through them will give you insight into the challenges we faced and how we overcome them.
| Channel | Purpose |
|---|---|
#epoch-bts |
Everything & anything related to organising Epoch. |
#epoch-food-n-fun |
Coordinating meals and side activities. |
#epoch-swag-n-prizes |
Designing & sourcing swag as well as selecting & purchasing prizes. |
#epoch-theme-n-judging |
Planning for Epoch's theme selection and judging process. |
#epoch-workshops |
Organising workshops for Epoch. |
#epoch-suppliers |
Sourcing supplies & swag from distributors / manufacturers. |
#epoch-satellites |
Organising a series of smaller Epoch satellite events in the USA. |
#epoch-cross-event-activity |
Coordinating an escape room-esque event for all Epoch events to participate in, together. |
#epoch-vt |
Organising a Epoch satellite hackathon in Shelburne, VT, USA. |
#epoch-ba |
Organising a Epoch satellite hackathon in Oakland, CA, USA. |
#epoch-texas |
Organising a Epoch satellite meetup in Austin, TX, USA. |
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
outline.md |
Epoch's vision, budget, staffing, and problem statements. |
safety.md |
Epoch's general safety and COVID-19 policies / protocols. |
/judging |
Proposals for how judging should run at Epoch. |
/theme |
Proposals for how we should choose Epoch's theme. |
See 🟣 Issue #3 for additional context surrounding /judging & /theme.
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
www-epoch |
Epoch's website! |
epoch-register |
Website for registering for Epoch. |
epoch-registrations |
Slack bot for registering for Epoch. |
epoch-prompter |
A static Next.js site to choose a prompt for Epoch. |
epoch-mission-control |
Escape-room-style event for Epoch. |
epoch-reaction-listener |
Slack bot to assign participants to teams for mission-control. |
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| 🏦 HCB | Epoch's transparent account on HCB. |
| 🎨 Figma | Home of our branding assets & swag designs. |
| 🛹 Project Board | Project board for the early stages of the project. |
| 🔢 Budget | Open-source budget for Epoch (includes transactions on the Indian credit card). |
| 📃 Venue Outreach | Email copy used for venue outreach. |
| 📃 Announcements | Copy used for announcements on Slack & Twitter as well as to Hack Club's mailing list. |
| 📕 Parent's Guide | Guide for parents with key safety information. |
| 📃 Stipend Policy | Policy on how stipends should be distributed. |
| 📃 Info Email | Extensive email for logistical information for attendees. |
| 🎤 Opening Ceremony | Slides used to introduce Hack Club & Epoch. |
| 📃 Ice Breaker Activity | Planning for ice-breaker activity in the opening ceremony. |
| 📃 Food Menu | Menu for meals offered at Epoch. |
| 📃 Workshops | Schedule for workshops hosted at Epoch. |
| ⏰ Run Of Show | The run of show for Epoch |
| 📃 Ideas Braindump | A random brainstorm by @sampoder and other Hack Clubbers. |
| 📸 The Photo Album | Thousands of photos from Epoch, free for use by Hack Clubbers! |
| 📸 Attendee's Photos | See Epoch from an attendee's perspective. |
Epoch was made possible by dozens of Hack Clubbers. Thank you. A special thank you to our Temporal Agents: Aaryan, Akshay, Anisha, Arash, Arav, Arsh, Ashish, Christina, Dev, Fayd, Gaurav, Kara, Karan, Mahi, Neil, Nila, Nishant, Ojas, Sam, Shatakshi, Tej, Khaleel & Zach.
| Year | Project | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Epoch | This repo! |
| 2022 | Assemble | The first high school hackathon since the pandemic! (repo) (finances) (photos) |
| 2021 | The Hacker Zephyr | A cross-country hacker adventure on a train. (repo) (finances) |
| 2020 | Summer of Making | $50k in hardware donations to teen hackers around the world + the creation of Scrapbook (code) (finances) |
| 2019 | Flagship Summit | IRL meetup of high school hackathon organizers and coding club leaders (photos) |
| 2018 | HCB | We built and launched the first version of HCB (read the 1st and 2nd announcement) |
| 2016 | Hack Camp | Summer camp / further writing & testing workshops |
| 2015 | Hack Camp | Summer camp / testbed for Hack Club's first workshops (content)(code) |