On 13/5/20 11:59 am, Tom Worthington wrote:
Senator Linda Reynolds, the Australian Minister for Defence, announced
today the Australian and New Zealand Defence Forces will host a joint
hackathon to strengthen supply chains.
https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/minister/lreynolds/media-releases/joint-hackathon-planned-strengthen-sovereign-supply-chains
This is to be run by the Australian Computer Society (ACS), starting
this Friday. Australians and New Zealanders have been asked to
contribute ideas to secure the logistics of our military, in the light
of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as recent bushfires, earthquakes and
floods. http://www.anzdfhack.org/
I have volunteered my experience working at Australian Defence Force
Headquarters in the 1990s, developing national policy online as part of
the Internet "Cabal", here on the Link List. ;-)
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/CLCCommsUpd/1995/56.pdf
I've never got involved in any of these. It's not lack of interest, or
even scepticism, and certainly not opposition to the idea.
Glancing through the page, it's awfully (and probably expensively)
glitzy, but it does actually include content!
But it doesn't address a key aspect I'm interested in understanding:
> ... shortlisted concepts will be offered inside pathways for further
development and funding of their idea in Defence and Industry sectors
...
> What is the hackathons IP policy for submissions?
>
> Under development.
Mmmmm.
There's a very long list of hackathons, e.g. here:
https://www.disruptorsco.com/big-list-hackathons/
Yet I can find nothing about IP, e.g. in the Wikipedia entry, or on the
govhack.org site, or in the https://hackathon.guide.
Does this mean that hackathons so rarely deliver ideas worth pinching
that defining terms relating to IP is irrelevant?
Put another way, is it primarily an active form of job application /
body-shop? For example, the promotion includes:
> Expose your talent to high profile defence collaborators and industry
professionals who are looking for your help and contribution
Or does it mean that the business model depends on people coming along
and gifting IP to sponsors?
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