Anyone and everyone of the age of majority is welcome to participate!

Create a MESG Application and at least one MESG Service that fits into one of the following themes.
Applications should connect to the services you use by defining the data flow between them.
Application can re-use existing Services. Check out the curated list of Awesome Services.
Applications might contain additional business logic depending on what you're building.
Keep in mind, it's always a good practice to create generic services and put business logic inside the application.

Themes

Computing

• Cloud Computing
• Connect existing cloud computing providers (e.g.: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Create easy-to-use MESG Services that delegate execution to the cloud provider
• Local Computing
• Execute a generic task in local virtual machine (e.g.: run JavaScript code in a secure JavaScript Virtual Machine)
• Execute a specific and resource-intensive task locally with dedicated and efficient software (eg: image processing)
• Decentralized cloud computing
• Execute a task on decentralized cloud computing platform (e.g.: iExec, Golem)

Payments

• Fiat currency
• Receive and/or emit a fiat currency payment
• Connect existing fiat payment processor (eg: Stripe, MangoPay, PayPal)
• Cryptocurrency
• Receive and/or emit a cryptocurrency payment
• Using Blockchains directly and/or a scalability solution on top of Blockchain (e.g.: Lightning Network, Plasma Cash)

File storage

• Cloud
• Connect an existing cloud file storage provider (eg: AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Create easy-to-use MESG Services that delegate storage to a cloud provider
• Local
• Store files locally within a MESG Service
• Decentralized
• Connect a decentralized file storage network (eg: IPFS, Sia)
• Manage the cost of the storage (if applicable)

Notifications

• iOS / Android notifications
• Emails
• SMS Notifications
• Webhook notifications

Applications must meet the following requirements to be eligible for the Hackathon:

• Application can re-use existing Services. Check out the curated list of Awesome Services.
• No programming language or tool restrictions, as long as the application and services are compatible with MESG’s gRPC API
• Services must be deployable on a clean computer running only MESG from the Github repository with the single line command "mesg-core service deploy https://github.com/USERNAME/SERVICE_REPO"
• Applications should be easily installable & startable on a clean computer
• Application and Services source code must be uploaded to GitHub in repositories
• Include a link to your application code on GitHub
• Complete and enter all of the required fields on the “Enter a Submission” page of the Hackathon Website (each a “Submission”) during the Hackathon Submission Period, and follow the requirements.

Submission Recommendations (The following are optional, but strongly recommended):

• Application should connect the services you use by defining the data flow between them. Application might contain additional business logic depending on what you’re building. Keep in mind that, it’s always a good practice to create generic services and put business logic inside application.
• Participants should register on the MESG Forum.
• Participants should post a new topic on the MESG Forum in the category “Hackathon” with “hackathon” tag to present their project from this hackathon and introduce themselves and/or their team

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