• A Useful Tool or Integration for Everyone
In our day-to-day workflows we often find ourselves lacking a really simple tool or integration that could simplify our open source or dev work significantly.
We encourage you to think about something that is useful on a daily basis, and can optimize work with common cloud native OSS tools.
• Solve a Universally felt Challenge
As a global community of OSS enthusiasts in the cloud native ecosystem, there are users and community members around the globe leveraging its tools and frameworks.
We encourage you to think of innovative ways to solve daily OSS & cloud native ecosystem challenges that can benefit everyone - from communication to collaboration, useful examples and improvements and more.
• A Significant Product Enhancement
Many times we have excellent ideas ways to improve the OSS tooling experience, but don’t necessarily have the time to work on them with our regular workloads, and so they remain in the backlog.
You are more than encouraged to build something with any of the suggested OSS projects that does something unique, and is just super cool and nifty.
• An Exciting Demonstration of Craft
What’s a hackathon without fun?! Sometimes we just want to play around with gadgets and gizmos, and put something together that can be useful or just for fun.
If you have a significant product enhancement that brings direct value to OSS users, build ways to make these cloud native products even better.

Project Criteria

• All projects need to be coded
• The project needs to be reproducible & demoable in 5 minutes or less
• Planning & design can start from the moment of kickoff, all coding needs to be done during the two hack days
• The demo needs to be accompanied by a short presentation (as you wish - with or without slides)
• Team size should be between 3-6 participants.

You can earn bonus points towards your project with the following advantages

• Use of any of the following tools / projects in your final project (+2 points for each) - Kubescape, OPAL, ValidKube, Helm Dashboard, OpenSearch K8s Operator, or CNCF projects such as Backstage, ArgoCD, and others.
• Diversity - Of people, companies and roles (+2 points)
• Selecting a high-bounty project from the proposals to work on (+5 points)
• A project focused on anything to help the greater good - from climate change to diversity and inclusion, accessibility, or any other socially conscious project. (+5 points)

• February 6th - Call for participants and projects opens - REGISTER OR PROPOSE HERE
• March 5th - Project Ignites Meetup and Project Recruitment REGISTER
• POSTPONED - MAY - HACK DAY!
• POSTPONED - MAY - Final Demos and Happy Hour

There are three ways you can choose to participate in the hackathon:
1. If you were BORN READY for this moment, and have your own project to suggest - feel free to register to the hackathon along with your team, and then submit your project viat the project proposal form, and select your team members from the list.
2. If you would like to participate in the hackathon and DO NOT have a project idea, feel free to register and peruse the project proposals (including the HIGH BOUNTY projects and select a project you would like to participate in.
3. If you would like to join the hackathon, and are still waiting to see which projects are interesting, you can peruse the list, join our Ignite Meetup on March 1st, and join the team that had the best project pitch.
Find all of the relevant resources for registering as a participant, proposing a project, and viewing the proposed projects below.