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Build on Redis Hackathon

31 points by node-bayarea 5y ago

lipanski 5y ago
They require you to use a business email address in order to enter the hackathon (gmail is blocked).
- andrenotgiant 5y ago
  their filtering is not very good, hey.com emails work fine.
recentdarkness 5y ago
This is weird. Czech Republic (Czechia) is not in the list of eligible countries but every other of our neighbours is O.o. Including Slovakia and Austria which both are even smaller countries than Czechia by number of Residents. I wonder why this is. Edit: Judging by the comment of required business email and gmail for example being blocked, I consider this hackathon somehow with their rules arbitrary and can't consider this to be some kind of fairly judged hackathon for those prices.
- sgtfrankieboy 5y ago
  It might be a law related thing regarding prizes? iirc its also why it says "Canada (excluding Quebec)"
teachingassist 5y ago
We're gonna have six out of six men on a judging panel in 2021? Grim. [Edited for downvoters: this is important because of natural biases in human judging, it serves as an automatic warning to women and other genders that they are unlikely to be treated fairly and suggests to them that they shouldn't bother to participate. If you can't be bothered to find a single woman judge, how are you going to rate projects created and designed by or for women?]
- NicoJuicy 5y ago
  As another reference, when I look at github contributions, I can't remember seeing 1 female. Perhaps there is an overrepresentation of males, because there are more males that contribute/work in IT? Eg. First page of people in .net contains 1 female and 19 males: https://github.com/orgs/dotnet/people https://github.com/orgs/dotnet/people
  - callamdelaney 5y ago
    The exact question I was going to ask.
    - NicoJuicy 5y ago
      And I was waiting till downvotes. But even the github opensource survey mentions only 1/20 are female ( which is perfectly aligned with my example) Too bad some people don't accept facts anymore. They should fix the root causes, eg. make coding for women more popular.
- tmhrtly 5y ago
  If you're a man reading this, one of the tools you have at your disposal is to pledge not to be a part of a panel comprised of only men. It can help to prompt organisers to assess their biases. Here's one example of such a pledge you could take (either privately, or publicly): https://www.owen.org/pledge/ https://www.owen.org/pledge/
- bandana 5y ago
  I assume the judges will look at the product without looking at the author profile, why would it matter ?
  - tester34 5y ago
    devil's advocate what if their design is more girlish in style and men wouldnt get it?
- mhuffman 5y ago
zexodus 5y ago
Anybody looking for a team member?
gerty 5y ago
How proficient do you have to be in Redis to have fun in such a hackathon? I use Redis mostly in combination with Python Celery.
- pmiller2 5y ago
  That mostly depends on your definition of "fun." Assuming by "fun," you actually mean "competitive," then it depends on who else enters, I suppose, but the more proficient you are, the better.
gpas 5y ago
Why Italy is not on the list? Also this part "Canadian residents must correctly answer a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question, if selected as winner, in order to claim prize" what's up with canadians and math?
- Waterluvian 5y ago
  Laws in Canada require all sweepstakes and the like to have a challenge aspect and a no purchase necessary aspect to separate them from gambling which is quite regulated. For example, when McDonald's is doing the Monopoly peel offs you can mail them and ask for some free peel offs, which they send you from a limited supply.
- z77dj3kl 5y ago
  Interesting video on Canadians having to do math to win prices: https://youtu.be/jOmnx-V1zBo https://youtu.be/jOmnx-V1zBo
  - border43 5y ago
    Canadian here, can confirm. Every time I've ever won any prize of any kind in an official way, we have to do stupid basic algebra problems. Very odd.
worldmerge 5y ago
I used Redis for a past project, Control My Lights. It's pretty cool, very fast. Going to check this out more.
hankchinaski 5y ago
Aka lead generation campaign for their b2b sales team

31 points by node-bayarea 5y ago

lipanski 5y ago

They require you to use a business email address in order to enter the hackathon (gmail is blocked).

andrenotgiant 5y ago
their filtering is not very good, hey.com emails work fine.

recentdarkness 5y ago

This is weird. Czech Republic (Czechia) is not in the list of eligible countries but every other of our neighbours is O.o. Including Slovakia and Austria which both are even smaller countries than Czechia by number of Residents. I wonder why this is. Edit: Judging by the comment of required business email and gmail for example being blocked, I consider this hackathon somehow with their rules arbitrary and can't consider this to be some kind of fairly judged hackathon for those prices.

sgtfrankieboy 5y ago
It might be a law related thing regarding prizes? iirc its also why it says "Canada (excluding Quebec)"

teachingassist 5y ago

We're gonna have six out of six men on a judging panel in 2021? Grim. [Edited for downvoters: this is important because of natural biases in human judging, it serves as an automatic warning to women and other genders that they are unlikely to be treated fairly and suggests to them that they shouldn't bother to participate. If you can't be bothered to find a single woman judge, how are you going to rate projects created and designed by or for women?]

NicoJuicy 5y ago
As another reference, when I look at github contributions, I can't remember seeing 1 female. Perhaps there is an overrepresentation of males, because there are more males that contribute/work in IT? Eg. First page of people in .net contains 1 female and 19 males: https://github.com/orgs/dotnet/people https://github.com/orgs/dotnet/people
- callamdelaney 5y ago
  The exact question I was going to ask.
  - NicoJuicy 5y ago
    And I was waiting till downvotes. But even the github opensource survey mentions only 1/20 are female ( which is perfectly aligned with my example) Too bad some people don't accept facts anymore. They should fix the root causes, eg. make coding for women more popular.
tmhrtly 5y ago
If you're a man reading this, one of the tools you have at your disposal is to pledge not to be a part of a panel comprised of only men. It can help to prompt organisers to assess their biases. Here's one example of such a pledge you could take (either privately, or publicly): https://www.owen.org/pledge/ https://www.owen.org/pledge/
bandana 5y ago
I assume the judges will look at the product without looking at the author profile, why would it matter ?
- tester34 5y ago
  devil's advocate what if their design is more girlish in style and men wouldnt get it?
mhuffman 5y ago

zexodus 5y ago

Anybody looking for a team member?

gerty 5y ago

How proficient do you have to be in Redis to have fun in such a hackathon? I use Redis mostly in combination with Python Celery.

pmiller2 5y ago
That mostly depends on your definition of "fun." Assuming by "fun," you actually mean "competitive," then it depends on who else enters, I suppose, but the more proficient you are, the better.

gpas 5y ago

Why Italy is not on the list? Also this part "Canadian residents must correctly answer a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question, if selected as winner, in order to claim prize" what's up with canadians and math?

Waterluvian 5y ago
Laws in Canada require all sweepstakes and the like to have a challenge aspect and a no purchase necessary aspect to separate them from gambling which is quite regulated. For example, when McDonald's is doing the Monopoly peel offs you can mail them and ask for some free peel offs, which they send you from a limited supply.
z77dj3kl 5y ago
Interesting video on Canadians having to do math to win prices: https://youtu.be/jOmnx-V1zBo https://youtu.be/jOmnx-V1zBo
- border43 5y ago
  Canadian here, can confirm. Every time I've ever won any prize of any kind in an official way, we have to do stupid basic algebra problems. Very odd.

worldmerge 5y ago

I used Redis for a past project, Control My Lights. It's pretty cool, very fast. Going to check this out more.

hankchinaski 5y ago

Aka lead generation campaign for their b2b sales team