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Use-a-Thon: Un concurso sobre usos innovadores para la plataforma Byteball
Contents
Resumen
La idea general es desarrollar usos beneficiosos que podrían dársele a la plataforma Byteball en una comunidad local. Es un formato de concurso, con equipos pequeños compitiendo por un premio en metálico. Los proyectos participantes serán deberán ser entregados en inglés y serán juzgados por veteranos de Byteball. Habrá ayuda constante disponible para todos los equipos y las respuestas siempre serán visibles también para los otros equipos.
Marco de la competencia
- Coordinadores dentro de la Universidad: Un equipo dentro de la universidad coordinará el concurso localmente y será conformado por la Federación de Centros de Estudiantes de la Universidad Simón Bolívar y el profesor Carlos Castañeda, del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Mantendrán contacto directo con la "Central de Competencias de Byteball", y ayudarán a los equipos a registrarse. El profesor Castañeda tendrá la decisión final de aprobar los equipos para que puedan participar del concurso. La promoción local será realizada por la FCEUSB.
Concursantes
- Equipos de dos o tres estudiantes, de los cuales al menos uno de ellos debe poseer buen nivel de inglés.
- Estar familiarizados con la plataforma Byteball no es esencial pero evidentemente los equipos deberán descubrir rápidamente qué es posible y qué no es posible realizar con los tokens en la plataforma.
Use-a-Thon #1: Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
- Dates: May 14 to June 24, 2018
- Local co-ordinator: FCEUSB at La Casita, email:
fceusb@usb.ve - Final team approval: Msc. Professor Carlos Castañeda, Social Science Department
- Byteball co-ordinator: Casper Niebe, @Punqtured on Slack, email
use-a-thon@byteball.org - Byteball jurors and helpers: (in Slack) @Punqtured, @Suirelav, @Slackjore
- Prizes: 1st place 2 GB, 2nd place 1 GB, third place 500 MB (0.5 GB)
Prize money
4.0 GB (plus 5000 bytes for transaction fees) are set aside for the prizes plus expenses. See Explorer link.[1]
General Rules
- Register team (2-3 USB students) as above by May 24, 2018
- The project must describe a real-world use case that the Byteball cryptocurrency platform could provide a solution to, to solve an actual problem in your community (can include the university)
- Each team leader must register one Byteball wallet address with @Punqtured to receive transaction fees
- Project entries in PDF format must be written in English, summary of 150 words or less, in a normal project format showing main goal, sub-goals, details and milestones as applicable
- All entries shall be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
- Deadline for handing in projects is June 24, 2018 (email with attached PDF to local co-ordinator)
- If less than five projects are handed in, the competition will be cancelled
- Byteball reserves the right to (but really hopes it won't need to) cancel the competition at its own discretion
Help
- See the presentation linked just below, including three videos showing Byteball features
- Download the platform/wallet from https://byteball.org, get millions of free tokens from the fun-coins faucet in the wallet, and enough Bytes (Byteball currency) for transaction fees from @Punqtured or @Slackjore or some other local person, and try out things
- Team contacts may ask questions directly on the Byteball Slack^ at http://slack.byteball.org (Channel #byteball_use-a-thon). Display the username "USB_TeamNNN", where NNN is your team number. Note that anyone can see these messages (there is no private help available). The three main people answering your Use-a-Thon questions are Punqtured, Suirelav and Slackjore. They are all in the UK/EU time zones (UTC +1/+2), although others may be able to answer general Byteball questions when these three are not available
- The rest of this wiki is very informative too.
^ To get on Slack, Team contacts can either:
- Go through slack.byteball.org and click one of the social media buttons Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or Linkedin. Depending on several factors (account age, number of followers etc.) you can get an immediate invite; otherwise you will receive an email from @cryptkeeper in which he will ask for other means of authentication. OR
- Email Punqtured at
use-a-thon@byteball.orgfrom your usb.ve account giving your name and Team number. Ask for the invitation. He will forward your info to @cryptkeeper.
Presentation
- Presentation (use arrow keys to move between slides)
- (Video) Presentation with commentary by Punqtured
Best documentary
The organizers will also award a prize (at least 300 MB) for the best documentary about this Use-a-Thon. No details worked out yet, but potential film-makers should prepare material (videos, photographs, interviews etc) while it is taking place.
Registered teams
"Contact" is designated team member who speaks English; bold font shows the team leader. cccccccc@usb.ve etc is team member's regular student email address.
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| 000 | jbohne | aaaaaaa, cccccccc | CARJFJ6SKDC2XGLX2XSNMIITAVRDEW2R[2] | Example only, not a real team |
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