POLKADOT HACKATHON EAST ASIA Edition - HackaDOT 2023
East Asia is a region with a large number of great blockchain engineers to find new ecosystems to apply their skills.
We propose the FIRST-EVER hackathon in East Asia to unite this potential and promote the Substrate technology and Polkadot ecosystem.
The layout of this hackathon will combine a few components we had during Sub0 2022, such as Starters & Builders Spaces, to host various workshops for developers.
The HackaDOT 2023, will be the official side event of Buidl Asia 2023 and be held both online(Phase#1) and offline(Phase#2).
In total 2.5 months of execution, from 22 March to 11 June 2023 (30 days of registration, 30 days for Pre-online hackathon, 3 days of live hackathon, and 4 days for judging period).
HackaDOT 2023 aims:
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To promote Substrate as an open-source framework for developers in East Asia.
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To navigate local developers into Polkadot Ecosystem.
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To showcase how Polkadot live-ecosystem leaders are building the use cases using our technology.
*Please see the full proposal here | Posted for Onchain Discussion
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Hello there, I'm part of the Parity Marcomms team and perhaps I can chime in and help to clarify some of your questions:
I had a meeting with the Buidl Asia organizer last week as we are also exploring the potential opportunities for the Polkadot Ecosystem at the event. During our conversation, the HackaDot event was mentioned multiple times and was highly supported by the organizer. I believe an official comms is in the planning just a matter of time. I would also imagine that official comms will only come once the proposal is confirmed.
Although I'm not part of the DevRel team, but I can confirm that both Parity Marcomms team and the DevRel team has been working closely with the Poster - providing feedback and input on the event.
Korea is a very important market for Polkadot to tap into and I hope the HackaDot event will just be the start of many more initiative for region.
I hope my answers clarify some of your questions.
Thank you for confirming some unclarity of the proposal. Our organizing team is expecting that this East Asia edition hackathon will be the great trigger to grow Polkadot's Asia pressure, which would lead to true decentralization of Polkadot presence, where our ecosystem is mostly concentrated on Europe and Americas. Please let me know any other unclear from the proposal.
Hello team,
Good initiative,
However, we are voting Nay due to the magnitude of the amount requested and the potential market effects of liquidating such amounts in a relatively short period of time.
We would like to see certain level of coordination between this proposal and some others versing on the hackathon topic, so there are checks in place to ensure there is not too much schedule overlap, the overall public is kept motivated, and market conditions are kept relatively stable.
Additionally, it has been suggested that Polkadot Bounty 17 could be a more adequate / organised option to funding this proposal, which we agree with.
Regards
Miloš
Thank you for commenting for the reason of Nays.
Since this event is the first-ever largest hackathon in East Asia, our team has set the budget a bit high to host a well-branded event. I am sorry that I haven't considered the market impact. This cost is only for the operational cost for the hackathon.
We are discussing with the Polkadot Bounty 17
If you have any questions, I am happy to answer to adjust. Thank you