Radio - EY GDS Hackathon

1. Do I need to pay any money to register for the Hackathon? No. You do not have to pay anything to anyone for this hackathon.

2. Do I need to have any specific qualifications to be a participant for the Hackathon? If you love to code, you are more than welcome to participate in the Hackathon.

3. How do I submit what I have made for the Hackathon? You have to develop the application on your local system and submit it on the HackerEarth site in tar/ zip file format along with instructions to run the application and source code.

4. Do we need to have the entire idea fully working? The entire idea need not be fully implemented. However, the submission should be functional so that it can be reviewed by the judges.

5. How is the environment? Will your environment support any language? Will you provide any IDE and DB for us to work on ideas? You have to develop the entire software application on your local system and submit it on HackerEarth in tar/ zip file format along with instructions to run the application and source code.

6. Does one have to be online and available for the entire duration of the Hackathon? No, one does not need to be logged in on HackerEarth or be online for the entire duration. You can develop the application on your local system based on the given themes and then submit it on HackerEarth, on the specific challenge page.

7. Since there is no specific technology mentioned, are there any restrictions on using number of pre-built libraries?

   The Expected Statistical Solution for all 6 themes are mentioned below:

   Solution should ideally suit for deployment in Azure cloud platform.

   1. The tools can leverage open source/ custom libraries/ Application Program Interface (API) from cloud platforms. 
   2. Existing Software As A Service (SaaS)/ hosted solutions (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Service etc.) except Azure should not be leveraged.

   Preferable technology stack is C#, .net and Python for Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Machine Learning (ML). You are also free to use libraries that are not licensed under Affero General Public License (AGPL).

8. Do I need to give a demo for the product that I have built? If you want you can submit a small presentation or video that demos your submission, however, it's not mandatory, and only good to have. In case you are one of the winners, you might be invited to demo your application at a virtual event, details of which will be shared with sufficient advance notice.

9. A fully developed application need to have a solid backend for data storage like SQL, SharePoint, etc. since its online, is it accepted to show only the prototype of it? Yes, it's absolutely fine to submit just the prototype. If you use any database like MySQL or PostgresSQL you can also submit a database dump along with your submission. However, you are allowed to submit just the prototype.

10. If it is a team submission, does that mean all team members will have access to work at the same time? Yes, all team members can login from their account and do application submission on HackerEarth.

11. Who will own the IP(Intellectual Property) Rights to the product that I have built? Participants agree that participating in the Hackathon does not grant him/ her, the license (expressly, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise) or any right of ownership to the data and resources. The intellectual property of the participants' code belongs only to the EY organization.

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