A project by IT Community of Uzbekistan

ITCom Hackathons Bot

A Telegram bot for hackathon registration and team building at IT Community events. Participants sign up, put a team together and find the people they are missing without leaving the chat.

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Already used at large hackathons, and planned for every IT Community hackathon that follows.

What it does

Registration and teams in one place

Signing up for a hackathon, forming a team and looking for teammates are three different problems. The bot keeps all of them in the same chat.

Registration

Sign up for a hackathon

The bot registers participants for the hackathons that IT Community runs.

Teams

Create a team or join one

Participants either start a team of their own or join a team that is already forming.

Team code

A name and a unique code

Every team has its own name and a unique code that identifies it inside the bot.

Recruiting

Find the people you are missing

Teams that are short of a person can look for them through the bot instead of asking around in chats.

How it works

From signing up to a full team

  1. 1 Register

    Sign up in the bot

    Participants register for the hackathon directly in the chat.

  2. 2 Team

    Start a team or enter a code

    A new team gets a name and its own code. Anyone who has that code can join the team it belongs to.

  3. 3 Recruit

    Fill the open spots

    Teams that still need people use the bot to find them among the other participants.

Where it is used

Built for large hackathons

The bot went through hackathons with a large number of participants, where registration and team formation have to hold up at scale, and it is planned as the registration tool for the community hackathons that follow.

  • AI500! HackathonA large-scale hackathon where the bot handled registration and teams.
  • Future hackathonsOne tool for every hackathon IT Community runs from now on.
Main goal

Why the bot exists

01

Simpler registration and team building

Signing up and putting a team together happen in the same place, in a few messages, instead of across forms and separate chats.

02

One tool for participant management

Organisers keep participants, teams and their composition in a single system, which matters most when a hackathon is large.

Taking part in the next hackathon?

Registration for IT Community hackathons opens in the bot as soon as a hackathon is announced.

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Looking for a team

If you are coming to a hackathon alone, the bot is also where teams that are short of a person are looking: itcomuzbot.

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