GC Blockchain Codefest

How it works

Key Dates

The kick-off is Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 as part of the quarterly Government of Canada Blockchain Working Group meeting. All registrants will be forwarded an email invitation to attend the kick-off as a virtual participant using a teleconference and WebEx.

The deadline for solution submissions is Monday, April 23rd at 9:00am EST

Team Formation

The GC Blockchain Codefest is open to everyone, including the federal, provincial/territorial public service as well as students and teachers from universities and colleges in Canada. Individuals that do not have a team are encouraged to register as a participant for the location of their choice and their registration details will be forwarded to the event organizer for follow-up.

The GC Blockchain Codefest is not just for people who code; a diversity of skills, experience and ideas, contributing to a unified cause, will results in richer and more diverse outcomes.

Themes

Teams will select one theme from the provided list of public sector use cases that are listed in the Use Cases and Themes section of this page.

A team may contact TBS and propose an alternative public sector use case. However, TBS will require the following:

• The proposed theme must represent providing a benefit to the public sector and/or the people served by the public sector
• The team must submit the theme description to the Slack Channel so that everyone sees it
• The team does not try to use the proposed theme as an opportunity to purely upsell or promote a specific company or service. TBS will not showcase the submission if it is an attempt at self-promotion.

Submissions

Submissions that fail to address a public sector need or opportunity will be rejected.

The GC Blockchain Day event on April 23rd will be a showcase of all of the approved submissions

Please read the rules for more details.

Locations

The primary codefest will occur in Ottawa at the Microsoft headquarters during the week of April 16th and confirmed satellite codefest locations will occur in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, St. John’s, Seattle, Johannesburg, Accra and Cyberjaya.

Each location will have a separate EventBrite ticket to help the local organizers manage their attendees.

Each satellite location will adhere to the provided guidelines from TBS and they will independently operate their own codefest based upon the availability of a location and participants.

Collaboration tools

Slack, Twitter, GitHub, YouTube and WebEx will be used to manage the communication from the 17th - 23rd.

The following common Slack channels will be available:

• #general: Questions & Answers
• #faq: Frequently Asked Questions
• #sharing: Sharing of best practices and resources

1-2 follow-up meetings will be setup with all of the satellite location participants via WebEx.

The social tag is #GCBlockchainDay

Register

Each participant must individually register for the free GC Blockchain Codefest on EventBrite.

Participants must also join the Slack workspace and join/create a team channel by clicking here.

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