Prizes

After the hackathon ends on 8th April 2024, our judges will work to award cash prizes across key areas:

💧 Beyond Carbon

Any submission that demonstrates the application of Impact Framework beyond carbon. (e.g. water, waste, air quality).

📦 Best Plugin

A model plugin that best supports and enhances the Impact Framework model plugin ecosystem.

📝 Best Content

Best piece of content published about Impact Framework, an article, tutorial, video or how to guide.

✨ Best Contribution to the Framework

Best contribution to the Impact Framework tool itself. Adding a new feature or enhancing an existing one.

🎓 Best Undergraduate & Under 18

We are also keen to broaden the opportunities for those who are studying so have specific prizes for Undergraduate Students and Under 18s, drawn from across the main categories.

Prizes

Each prize will be judged against the following criteria:

💧 Beyond Carbon

Any submission that demonstrates the application of IF beyond carbon. For example, into one of the ecological ceilings:

• Climate change
• Ocean acidification
• Chemical pollution
• Nitrogen & phosphorus loading
• Freshwater withdrawals
• Land conversion
• Rate of Biodiversity loss
• Air pollution
• Ozone layer depletion

Overall Impact 👩🏽‍⚖️

• What potential impact will this model have on the broader sustainability movement? (potential upside)
• What things need to happen for that impact to occur? (chance of reaching the potential)

Educational Value

• Does the project help people understand more about emissions and planetary boundaries? Imagine it as a good teacher—making complex topics easy to grasp and sparking interest in learning more.

Synthesizing

• How well does the model integrate and combine information from existing research? Are any coefficients, methodologies, or techniques backed up with good citations? How can we trust the outputs of this model are correct?

📦 Best Plugin

Overall Impact 👩🏽‍⚖️

• What potential impact will this model have on the broader sustainability movement? (potential up side)
• What things need to happen for that impact to occur? (chance of reaching the potential)

Opportunity

• How well does it open the door to IF being used to measure different software ecosystems and environments, e.g., different clouds, services, and platforms?

Modular

• How well does it adhere to the Unix philosophy / micro-model arch? Does it play well with other model plugins in the pipelines? Does it do one thing and do it well?

📝 Best Content

Overall Impact 👩🏽‍⚖️

• What potential impact will this content have on the broader sustainability movement? (potential up side)
• What things need to happen for that impact to occur? (chance of reaching the potential)

Clarity

• Evaluate how well the technical content communicates complex concepts. Assess if the tutorials and videos are clear, concise, and accessible to a diverse audience, including those with varying levels of expertise.

Problem-Solving

• Effective tutorials address common issues or challenges that users may encounter. They provide troubleshooting tips and solutions, fostering a problem-solving mindset among learners.

✨ Best Contribution to the Framework

Innovation and Creativity 👩🏽‍⚖️

• Judge the innovative approaches and creative solutions introduced during the hackathon. Look for contributions that bring new ideas, improvements, or novel features to the open-source project.

Contribution Impact

• Evaluate the impact and significance of contributions made during the hackathon on the specific open-source project. Consider factors such as the enhancement of features, bug fixes, and overall project advancement.

Roadmap Alignment

• Consider how well the hackathon contributions align with the long-term goals and roadmap of the open-source project. Assess whether the proposed changes are sustainable and fit into the project's vision for future development.

Judging Criteria

Judging

• Each prize will have 3 criteria to judge the prizes by, and each criterion will be scored 1-5, 5 being the best score.
• So there is a max of 15 points each judge can give each project for each prize.
• There is a pre-judging phase and a final judging phase.
• Pre-judging is with a select group of Green Software Foundation (GSF) members to filter out the list of submissions to a Top X which is sent to the final judges.
• Final judges are selected from the sponsors of the hackathon.

Pre-judging

• Depending on the number of submissions, there will be a pre-judging session to cut down the options so the final judges will need to judge fewer options.
• Pre-judges will come from a selection of core trustworthy members of the GSF, including the chairs/projects-leads from other projects and key members of the impact framework team and staff. The GSF Executive Director ultimately decides who is included in the pre-judging list.
• Pre-judges judge based on the same criteria as below.
• In the pre-judging phase the IF core team will also judge the solutions according to the core criteria listed below, only the core team can judge the project for documentation and code quality.

Final Judging

• Once the list of submissions has been cleaned to a Top X it goes to the final judges.
• They will judge the same way as is done by the pre-judging, based on the criteria for the prizes.
• Depending on the number of submissions we may suggest the final judges to judge the main criteria for each prize indicated with 👩🏽‍⚖️ but this is still to be confirmed.

Core criteria

These criteria the IF core team will judge for each code contribution (model or framework):

Documentation and Transparency

• Is the project well-documented, and does it provide transparency in its methodologies? Think of it like reading a manual for a gadget—clear instructions and openness about how it operates.

Code Quality

• Evaluate the overall code quality. A well-documented and cleanly written codebase contributes to the project's maintainability and long-term success.

Project submissions

• When contestants submit their solution, they will first need to decide the prize they are going for.
• Each prize category has different criteria, their submission should contain entries for each of the criteria.
• The submission from the hacking team may contain more, but as a minimum it will contain:
  • Overall Pitch: A short summary of the overall project, written, and a short video if possible (2 mins)
  • Prize Pitch: A paragraph to support each criterion of the prize they are going for.
• The judges will use this information and whatever else they think is useful to judge their score.

Accessory Prizes

• Under 18s and Best Undergraduate are prizes you are automatically entered into regardless, you don't select these.
• You might win a main prize PLUS an Under 18s prize if your solution is excellent.
• You might only win the Under 18s prize.