Participants must be over 18 years of age, and teams may have no more than five members.

Individuals, and teams of individuals, must have reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry. Note: organizations are excluded from this hackathon.

Main requirement: Build (or update) an extension or plugin for VS Code, Eclipse IDE, or IntelliJ IDE that improves the workflow of developers who are maintaining a COBOL application.

Opt-in Categories:

• Everyone Loves Automation
  Eligible Solutions focused on automating a major step in the development process. Submissions will be judged based on time savings and the number of repetitive steps eliminated.
• Outside of the Box
  Eligible Solutions focused on creating a solution that no one else thought about. Submissions will be judged based on the perceived amount of value that a developer would gain from this solution. These Submissions can be super abstract, really not obvious, obscure mainframe integration.
• Why Didn’t I Think of That
  Eligible Solutions focused on solving the issues that are so obvious, no one else thought about it. Submissions will be judged based on how simple the solution is and if any other teams created a similar solution. These Submissions are obvious solutions, such as an integration with a CI/CD solution or syntax highlighting.

Submit the following materials: 

• Demo video (hosted on YouTube, Facebook Video, Vimeo, or Youku). Your video should be around 3 minutes long and include a demo of your working application.
• Repository access to your working application for judging and testing. Include a link to your repo hosting the code and all deployment files and testing instructions needed for testing your project. (Repositories may be public or private — if your repository is private, share access with testing@devpost.com AND hack-for-good-aws@amazon.com)
• Submission form on Devpost before the deadline, August 31 at 5pm ET.