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title = "TADHack Global 2017 and THE Port 2017"
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path = "/blog/2017/10/11/tadhack-global-2017-and-the-port-2017"
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author = ["Luke Barnard"]
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category = ["Events"]
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## TADHack Global 2017
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At the end of September, TADHack Global was held where almost 150 teams spent their weekends hacking towards the $45k total prize money up for grabs. <a href="https://matrix.to/#/@lb:ldbco.de">Luke</a> spent the final day of the hack talking to teams hacking at IDEALondon in Shoreditch, meeting a few Matrix enthusiasts and long-time collaborators.
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Out of 10 hacks, 2 of 4 local winners won prizes locally and went on to be <a href="http://blog.tadhack.com/2017/10/02/tadhack-global-2017-winners/">global winners </a>alongside 6 other teams using Matrix as part of their hacks. Checkout the <a href="http://blog.tadhack.com/2017/10/03/tadhack-london-2017/">TADHack London Wrap-up</a> for details on all of the awesome hacks, especially <a href="https://github.com/aviraldg">Aviral Dasgupta</a>'s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOmhgSNS_6E&feature=youtu.be">Pushtime</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/qOYdDyRlDNE" target="_blank">Polite.ai</a>.
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https://twitter.com/TADHack/status/915284069046419456
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Well done to everyone who took part, and a special thanks to those flying Matrix :)
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## THE Port 2017
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The following weekend was THE Port 2017, a humanitarian-themed hackathon held at CERN, Geneva in Switzerland. Among the 7 teams participating, the Matrix team consisted of a few software developers from <a href="https://bity.com">Bity</a> including Matrix enthusiast <a href="https://github.com/OmeGak">Alejandro Avilés</a> (who very kindly helped us get a team into the hackathon). <a href="https://matrix.to/#/@lb:ldbco.de">Luke</a> and <a href="https://matrix.to/#/@dbkr:matrix.org">Dave</a> from the Matrix London office also flew out to help the cause and by the end had a very stable, working prototype by the end of the competition.
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The hack we made was a communications system backed by Matrix for use in refugee camps, an idea that hatched at the start of the hackathon (whereas the other projects were well established ideas up to 6 weeks before the event). Check out <a href="https://github.com/theport2017-matrix">the code on GitHub</a> if you're interested in the client-side apps we made over the weekend.
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https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/916672581473890304
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It was another fun weekend for the Matrix team and we look forward to the next one. Stay tuned for updates on upcoming Matrix events!
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