The Goal

Create an open source self-hosted (not Wordpress.com) WordPress website to help us host and manage the annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon (which we help sponsor and organize). Our current website is static html, CSS, and JS, and is hard to update and maintain.

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 Website

The site will provide public information to prospective attendees and sponsors, facilitate blog and social media campaigns that promote the event, list the hackathon challenges and important attendee information, provide bios for organizers sponsors judges & mentors, showcase previous and current hackathon winners, and display photos of the event. The site will also allow archiving of previous years' events.

Your solution will include a deployment script to deploy the website along with any plugins and content.

Content and detailed requirements will be provided at the start of the project. You can get an idea of the kind of content from our website.

Your Contribution

Use your skills and creativity to design and build the hackathon website using WordPress and free (open-source) plugins. Create a cool theme for the new site.

Your work will be put to immediate use as Space Apps Ottawa's new public website!