DocuSign is committed to helping the world’s businesses take their core processes digital. Help us bring the power of DocuSign’s suite of applications, APIs, and integrations for automating and connecting the entire agreement process to non-profits. 

Through our DocuSign for Forests initiative, DocuSign is also committed to protecting the world’s forests. We believe that code that supports organizations doing critical work to preserve the world's forests or other missions crucial to humanity is Good Code.

 

Two Ways to Win

You can help our nonprofit partner, the Jane Goodall Institute, or a worthy non-profit of your choice use DocuSign’s APIs to take their e-signature and other processes digital. We invite you to use the DocuSign eSignature and other APIs to build a web or mobile application to:

  • Integrate geospatial field data collection and camera trap workflows for conserving chimpanzees and their habitats for the Jane Goodall Institute.

OR

  • Build an innovative web or mobile application that automates and connects agreement/e-signature processes for a non-profit of your choice (Greater Good Challenge). Non-profit organization must be a registered 501c3 or local equivalent to be eligible to win.

Livestream Calendar

Throughout the challenge, we will offer several livestream sessions on our DocuSign API Twitch channel, offering help and further insight into how to build a winning app. Check out our calendar below, and make sure to follow us for updates. You can also join our Slack channel to get questions answered in between livestreams.

Date Time (PDT) Topic & Description
Wed Jul 13 9:00 AM

Good Code Hackathon Kick-Off

Join Lilian Pintea, Vice President of Conservation Science at Jane Goodall Institute, and Naveen Gopala, Director of Engineering at DocuSign, for a deep dive into this year's challenges and offer insight on how to build the best app for JGI or the Greater Good challenge. We will also provide an opportunity to ask your questions live. 

Watch the Recording

Thurs Jul 14 9:00 AM

Good Code Hackathon Winners Pro-Tips

The winners of our 2021 Good Code Hackathon - Jane Goodall Institute challenge, Tanvir and Mehedi, will be joining us live to chat about their winning app. They will discuss learning throughout their build and offer pro-tips for Good Code and hackathons in general, plus an opportunity to ask your questions live. 

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Thurs Jul 19 9:00 AM

Esri Overview

Learn all about Esri APIs from the experts and ask your questions live.

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Wed Jul 20 10:30 AM

eSign 101

An interactive introduction and deeper dive into the Docusign eSignature REST API.

Watch the Recording

Thurs Jul 21 9:00 AM

ArcGIS Survey123

The experts from Esri will be back to walk you through everything you need to know about ArcGIS Survey123 and offer you live support.

Watch the Recording

Tues Jul 26

9:00 AM

Open Help Session

The experts at DocuSign are here to help you answer questions and help you troubleshoot any problems you may be running into.

Watch the Recording

Wed Jul 27 9:00 AM

API Tips and Tricks

In this talk, DocuSign pro Inbar Gazit, will show some common useful methods to authenticate, make API calls using quickstart and talk about common gotchas and issues developers may run into when using the DocuSign APIs with plenty of time for questions by the audience

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Tues Aug 2

9:00 AM

Open Help Session

The experts at DocuSign are here to help you answer questions and help you troubleshoot any problems you may be running into. 

Watch the Recording

Wed Aug 3 9:00 AM

New Sample Apps: My APICalls

This live session will introduce to our latest sample app, MyAPICalls, which provides you an interactive environment where you can try out our most common API endpoints and see how the API request and response work for each.

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Thurs Aug 11 9:00 AM

Open Help Session - Final Tech Q&A

This is your last chance to meet with experts at DocuSign are here to help you answer questions and help you troubleshoot any problems you may be running into. Submissions are due Friday, August 12th at 2pm PT. 

Watch the Recording

 

Requirements

Submit the following assets: 

  1. A 3-minute demo video (hosted on YouTube, Facebook Video, Vimeo, or Youku). Your video should include a demo of your working application via a step-by-step visual demo. 
  2. A way to access your working application for judging and testing by providing a URL to the publicly visible code repository, including an applicable open source license. https://opensource.org/licenses 
  3. Please include a link to a GitHub repository containing your project. You must clearly disclose which code you wrote yourself within the timeframe of the hackathon and let the judges know about any libraries or APIs you used.

All projects must be submitted here through Devpost to be eligible for judging.

Submissions open at 7 AM PDT on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Submissions close at 2 PM PDT on Friday, August 12, 2022. Requests for late submissions will not be accepted.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$50,000 in prizes

First Place - Jane Goodall Institute App

• $15,000 USD
• 30 min. virtual meeting with DocuSign executive
• Blog post featuring the winning app
• Opportunity to work with Jane Goodall Institute to further develop your app

First Place - Greater Good

• $10,000 USD
• 30 min. virtual meeting with DocuSign executive
• Blog post featuring the winning app

Second Place - Jane Goodall Institute App

• $7,500 USD
• Blog post featuring the winning app

Second Place - Greater Good

• $5,000 USD
• Blog post featuring the winning app

Third Place - Jane Goodall Institute App

• $3,750 USD
• Blog post featuring the winning app

Third Place - Greater Good

• $2,500 USD
• Blog post featuring the winning app

Beyond DocuSign eSignature

Award for the best implementation of a DocuSign product(s) beyond eSignature alone and/or utilizing advanced eSignature features.
• $5,000 USD
• 30 min. virtual meeting with DocuSign product development executive
• Blog post featuring the winning app

Best Use of Esri APIs &/or ArcGIS Survey123

Award for the best use of Esri APIs and/or ArcGIS Survey123 • $1,250 USD • Blog post featuring the winning app

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Inhi Suh

Inhi Suh
President, Product and Engineering - DocuSign

Lilian Pintea

Lilian Pintea
Vice President, Conservation Science - Jane Goodall Institute

Kamal Hathi

Kamal Hathi
Chief Technology Officer - DocuSign

Jerome Levadoux

Jerome Levadoux
Chief Product Officer - DocuSign

Mark Groves

Mark Groves
Global Vice President, Platform Engineering - DocuSign

Naveen Gopala

Naveen Gopala
Director, Engineering - DocuSign

Stacy Hafner

Stacy Hafner
Sr. Program Manager, Developer Programs

Merlin Van Lawick

Merlin Van Lawick
Jane Goodall Institute

Judging Criteria

  • Quality of the Idea
    Includes creativity and originality of the idea
  • Implementation of the Idea
    Includes how well the idea was executed by the developer
  • Potential Value
    Includes the extent to which the solution can help JGI and/or other nonprofits

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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