Yahoo Hack Together is a virtual hackathon and an opportunity to join our open source communities and improve the projects that power the products and apps you love.
There are a variety of ways you can participate ranging from contributing code, designs, proofreading, technical documentation, translations, accessibility, and user experience.
We are excited to offer the following categories:
$100 SWAG BUNDLE
Top merged PR per project
$100 SWAG BUNDLE
Individual(s) with the most merged pull requests.
$50 SWAG BUNDLE
Individual(s) with the second most merged pull requests
T-Shirt & SWAG BUNDLE
First 300 individuals with a merged pull request
Security
Project Description
Arkime (formerly Moloch) is a large scale, open source, indexed packet capture and search tool.
Language
Javascript, C, Vue, Perl, HTML
Security
Project Description
Platform for X.509 certificate based service authentication and fine grained access control in dynamic infrastructures.
Language
Java, Javascript, Go
Design
Project Description
Denali's themeable design system provides the ease of building with a framework without sacrificing your unique visual style.
Language
Javascript, CSS, SCSS
Data
Project Description
A Java library that lets you stand up model driven GraphQL/JSON-API web services for CRUD or analytics.
Language
Java
Dev Ops
Project Description
Hurl is an http server load tester with support for TLS, HTTP2, multithreading, parallelism, and url ranges. Hurl is primarily useful for benchmarking http server applications.
Language
C++, C
Dev Ops
Project Description
Libraries that synchronizes the Athenz domain data including the roles, services, and policies into corresponding Kubernetes AthenzDomain custom resources.
Language
Go
Data
Project Description
A library that provides solutions for managing big data off the JVM heap. These thread-safe solutions allow applications to store data off-heap significantly reducing memory footprint and GC overhead.
Language
Java, Python
Dev Ops
Project Description
Screwdriver is a self-contained, pluggable service to help you build, test, and continuously deliver software using the latest containerization technologies.
Language
Javascript, Go, Ruby
Data
Project Description
Vespa lets you do selection, organization and machine-learned model inference over billions of constantly changing data items, serving thousands of queries per second with latency below 100 milliseconds.
Language
Java, C++
Data
Project Description
Yavin is a framework for rapidly building custom data applications that offers both a UI and an API. In addition, Yavin can be deployed as a standalone Business Intelligence tool.
Language
Javascript, Typescript
Security
Dates
Wed. March 17, 2:00-3:00PM ET
Wed. March 24, 2:00-3:00PM ET
Security
Dates
Mon. March 22, 11:00AM-12:00PM PT
Wed. March 24, 11:00AM-12:00PM PT
Thu. March 25, 11:00AM-12:00PM PT
Mon Mar 22 11:00AM-12:00PM Israel Time
Tue Mar 23 11:00AM-12:00PM Israel Time
Wed Mar 24 11:00AM-12:00PM Israel Time
Design
Dates
Mon. March 22, 12:30 - 1:30pm PT
Wed. March 24, 11:30am - 12:30pm PT
Friday March 26, 11:30am - 12:30pm PT
Data
Dates
Mon. March 22, 9:00AM-10:00AM, Central Time
Wed. March 24, 3:30PM-4:30PM, Central Time
(Special timing can be also arranged upon participants request)
Data
Dates
Sun. March 21, 11:00AM-12:00PM, Israel time
Wed. March 24, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PST/9:30PM-10:30PM, Israel time
Special timing can be also arranged upon participants request
Dev Ops
Dates
Thurs. March 11, 6PM - 6:30PM, PT
Thurs. March 25, 6PM - 6:30PM, PT
Data
Dates
Mon. March 22, 10:00AM-11:00AM, Central Time
Wed. March 24, 4:30PM-5:30PM, Central Time
(Special timing can be also arranged upon participants request)
To request accommodations please contact us at hacktogether@verizonmedia.com or +1 312 803 5150. Accommodation requests should be made by March 14, 2021, one week prior to the event.
Yes! We are excited to offer several ways in addition to writing code to get involved. After all, good code is just one piece of a successful open source project: Accessibility Reviews (For those with experience using and testing with assistive technology), reviewing documentation, translations, user experience reviews (projects & websites), social media content suggestions & improvements.
Check out our Contributing Guides
Yes, you can read them here.
Yes - all aspects of the Hackathon are online. The event website, tutorial & intro videos, contribution guidelines, documentation, source code, Slack channel, are all available online.
You are welcome to work with a team on open issues but only one individual will be eligible to win prizes for each prize category.
Yes, Verizon Media employees can participate but please see internal guidance for rules & policy.
Please visit our Code of Conduct page to learn more about our commitment to an open and welcoming environment.
Thank you to the following projects and teams
Denali Design,
GitLab Hackathon
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