The Goal:

Create a mobile-friendly Android mobile app for participants of the annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon (which we help sponsor and organize).

The Hackathon

The hackathon is our Ottawa version of the NASA International Space Apps Hackathon, and will be held October 18-20 at Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management Program. The event is an intense 48-hour global weekend hackathon for developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers and enthusiasts. Along with 212 cities around the world, Ottawa teams form and build products and prototypes against NASA- and (in our case) Canadian Space Agency-designed challenges that leverage spacecraft, celestial & science data. You can learn more at the current version of our hackathon website.

The Mobile App

The mobile app will improve the participant experience during the event.

Some suggested content and features will be provided at the start of the project. You can get an idea of the kind of content from our website. Some ideas for the app include an easy way to filter and view challenges, a way to receive updates and news from organizers, a list of helpful links and resources, and a way to vote for people's choice hackathon winner. It would be helpful to allow dynamic content updates from an online content management system (WordPress) pages.

The only real requirements are:

1) The app must work on popular phones using Android 9 Pie (or later)

2) We must be able to distribute the app via our website and/or email

3) Whatever solution you deliver and technical libraries you use must be compatible with the Apache 2.0 licence.

Ultimately the content, layout, and technology are up to you - use your creativity!

Your Contribution

Use your skills and creativity to design and build the Android app. We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Your work will be put to immediate use in this year's Space Apps hackathon in Ottawa, and possibly by some of our sister cities in the future!

The mobile app will be released under the open source Apache 2 licence which enables others (including yourselves) to use it for any purpose, with attribution. You will be able to showcase this app in your portfolio should you wish.