The Locate Conference theme is Disruptive Technology for a Smarter Society. 

The Innovate@Locate hack looks to bring together key datasets which are essential to our prosperity, protection, sustainability and ability to grow information.

locate-geohack-3456.devpost.com is the Official Locate hack competition submission site and allows you to submit all components required for your team’s Innovate@Locate entry.   Note: submission elements and times are system controlled so not extensions are available! Teams are required to submit the following as part of their competition entry on Devpost: URL locate-geohack-3456.devpost.com

• Register all Team members in Devpost (If your team win we can only recognise registered team members).URL locate-geohack-3456.devpost.com

• A descriptive project page, listing your team members, details about your project, what data sets have been used and what competition categories (local, national and international) that you are going for.  The project page must include your Project Description Data Story.  This is a short description that describes how data has been reused and what your project is about. Submit an image that best captures your concept e.g a logo or Image. If you win an award this is what we will use to describe your project 

• Nominate your Prize Categories. When you register your Team Project on the Devpost you’ll have access to the competition prizes to compete for. Teams may register more than one entry; a new project page is required for each entry. You can nominate more that than one prize category for each for each project entry so long as the entry meets the multiple eligibility criteria. At a minimum please nominate one competition prize. We encourage projects to focus on a few prizes not all the prizes.  The best way to maximise your chance to win is to use a data set from the official list and to check for any Prize category eligibility criteria such as a specific data sets.

• Outcomes from the project itself (any code, graphics, mashups, applications, website URLs, photos of each  stage to create your artistic representation etc) which must all be made available under an open source/content licence to be eligible for prizes. If judges are able to see and play with it that is useful, but this is a minor component of the judging.   Teams can put the code/source on GitHub, Sourceforge or an equivalent repository system and must make the URL available on their team page for verification. For artistic works you may need to create a photo library or share a link to a Googledocs that contains evidence of the stages of your project.

• Data reused – On your project page you are required to record any data used. This is especially required if the prize categories entered have a data usage requirement for eligibility. Ensure that everyone agrees in advance to IP rights before commencing work. We recommend that you choose a popular open source license for your new repository such as the BSD, Apache or MIT license, e.g. http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html.

If you clone an existing open source repository, it may be necessary for you to stick with the existing license which is associated with that codebase. We also suggest you add the names of all contributors in a copyright statement co-located with the code. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you have adequate permission to use or access any code or data which you use today.

• A pre-recorded video (maximum three minutes) that demonstrates your hack in action for the judging panel. The preferred method is to use a screencast with a voice-over narration explaining your hack, why you created it, and what is being show in the video. Remember that the judging panel is viewing the videos in isolation and doesn’t necessarily have any context around your project. You may mix in other elements with the screencast, such as footage demonstrating the issues your hack addresses, interviews, live action material you’ve filmed, et cetera – but be aware that videos that don’t focus on showing off the hack itself will not be as valued as ones that do. You are encouraged to include your team name, event location, team members, and to talk about the data you have used and your data reuse story. Check out the hacker toolkit for some assistance and instruction on how to make a compelling video. Remember: Your video should not take more than a few hours out of your weekend if you keep it simple.

• 9 am Friday  18th March EST time – Devpost opens and prize categories are announced online for competition
• 9:30 Friday EST-all competitors can register as a user on Devpost.
• 5pm Friday EST – A Team Project Page and your prize category nomination must be completed in Devpost. Record all your team members on your project page and the URL to your proof of concept repository.  No new projects pages can be created after this time.  You are still able to edit your project page after this time.
• 4pm Sunday EST – Your video should be finalised and a URL linking to your video created to load on your Project page. It may take some time for your video to load once you have started the process
• 5pm Sunday EST –  You MUST have all parts of your competition entry finalised by 5:00pm Local time which includes 1) your team page, 2) your data story description and detail of data sets used 3) your Project outcomes (demo’s, code, graphics, photos submitted, and 4) your video link uploaded.

All prizes you can compete for will be announced on 11 April at your registered Official Innovate@Locate hack at Locate 2016 Conference VIP party at 7pm! 

You must nominate which prizes you are competing for on your Devpost project page.

• Best use of SMART M.app
  The Hexagon prize requires specific eligibility criteria of using SMART M.app. That use should be an core part of the submission for the best use of the Smart M.app prize.
• Best Use of Location Information
  The PSMA prize requires specific eligibility criteria of the integration of G-NAF and Administrative boundaries and demonstrate the power of location information.
• - Best use of Open Data from Western Australia
  To qualify for taking-out this prize you need to use one or more data sources from the new Open Data Service – see data.wa.gov.au and/or the Shared Location Information Platform (SLIP) – see slip.landgate.wa.gov.au.
• Usability
  Most effective Usability (including documentation and ease of use)
• Design Innovation
  Best innovative design. Structure, use of standards. Includes how well the idea was executed by the developer and the extent to which the application utilizes the maps APIs or Add-ins in a way that increases productivity.
• Solution Simplicity
  Best problem solving result includes the extent to which the application could impact the user’s productivity.
• Category definition
  The relevance to the team nominated category definition