Goguen Launch Global Hackathon

I thought that it would be appropriate have the launch of Goguen correspond to a global hackathon event to celebrate the milestone, bring awareness to the project and bring developers and dApp ideas to the ecosystem. Since I have no experience with running a project of this scale I thought it would be prudent to partner with people who do. That search led me to bemyapp the people who run hackathon.com who have provided a detailed proposal that I have attached.

If people like the idea and proposal I will reach out to the 3 Cardano entities (Emurgo, IOG, and Foundation) for participation and possibly prize money. I'd probably also look for volunteers to help. Their budget is $76,000.00 I padded it a little for unknown costs. At this point I am not looking for compensation personally.

I still have some open questions that I would like help with such as: What is a good topic for the hackathon, if the proposal is successful can the money go to hackethon.com directly, Is Goguen ready yet? Are we still to early to have a hackathon?

Honestly I suspect we are probably a little to early to launch this but I want to solicit feedback and see if people think this is a good idea and refine it. They told me it will take them 6 to 8 weeks to get their end ready to launch BTW.

Here is a link to the Google slides of their proposal:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1shUEsyHLD-0kAO9ZtjDNpy82D-6eqD3WflbLarEcYU8/edit#slide=id.g367d6047d4_0_3101

Thanks for looking!

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