DocuSign is committed to helping the world’s businesses take their core processes digital. Help us bring the power of DocuSign’s suite of applications, APIs, and integrations for automating and connecting the entire agreement process to non-profits.
Through our DocuSign for Forests initiative, DocuSign is also committed to protecting the world’s forests. We believe that code that supports organizations doing critical work to preserve the world's forests or other missions crucial to humanity is Good Code.
Two Ways to Win
You can help our nonprofit partner, the Jane Goodall Institute, or a worthy non-profit of your choice use DocuSign’s APIs to take their e-signature and other processes digital. We invite you to use the DocuSign eSignature and other APIs to build a web or mobile application to:
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Integrate geospatial field data collection and camera trap workflows for conserving chimpanzees and their habitats for the Jane Goodall Institute.
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Build an innovative web or mobile application that automates and connects agreement/e-signature processes for a non-profit of your choice (Greater Good Challenge). Non-profit organization must be a registered 501c3 or local equivalent to be eligible to win.
Livestream Calendar
Throughout the challenge, we will offer several livestream sessions on our DocuSign API Twitch channel, offering help and further insight into how to build a winning app. Check out our calendar below, and make sure to follow us for updates. You can also join our Slack channel to get questions answered in between livestreams.
| Date | Time (PDT) | Topic & Description |
| Wed Jul 13 | 9:00 AM |
Good Code Hackathon Kick-Off Join Lilian Pintea, Vice President of Conservation Science at Jane Goodall Institute, and Naveen Gopala, Director of Engineering at DocuSign, for a deep dive into this year's challenges and offer insight on how to build the best app for JGI or the Greater Good challenge. We will also provide an opportunity to ask your questions live. |
| Thurs Jul 14 | 9:00 AM |
Good Code Hackathon Winners Pro-Tips The winners of our 2021 Good Code Hackathon - Jane Goodall Institute challenge, Tanvir and Mehedi, will be joining us live to chat about their winning app. They will discuss learning throughout their build and offer pro-tips for Good Code and hackathons in general, plus an opportunity to ask your questions live. |
| Thurs Jul 19 | 9:00 AM |
Esri Overview Learn all about Esri APIs from the experts and ask your questions live. |
| Wed Jul 20 | 10:30 AM |
eSign 101
An interactive introduction and deeper dive into the Docusign eSignature REST API. |
| Thurs Jul 21 | 9:00 AM |
ArcGIS Survey123
The experts from Esri will be back to walk you through everything you need to know about ArcGIS Survey123 and offer you live support. |
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Tues Jul 26 |
9:00 AM |
Open Help Session The experts at DocuSign are here to help you answer questions and help you troubleshoot any problems you may be running into. |
| Wed Jul 27 | 9:00 AM |
API Tips and Tricks In this talk, DocuSign pro Inbar Gazit, will show some common useful methods to authenticate, make API calls using quickstart and talk about common gotchas and issues developers may run into when using the DocuSign APIs with plenty of time for questions by the audience |
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Tues Aug 2 |
9:00 AM |
Open Help Session The experts at DocuSign are here to help you answer questions and help you troubleshoot any problems you may be running into. |
| Wed Aug 3 | 9:00 AM |
New Sample Apps: My APICalls This live session will introduce to our latest sample app, MyAPICalls, which provides you an interactive environment where you can try out our most common API endpoints and see how the API request and response work for each. |
| Thurs Aug 11 | 9:00 AM |
Open Help Session - Final Tech Q&A This is your last chance to meet with experts at DocuSign are here to help you answer questions and help you troubleshoot any problems you may be running into. Submissions are due Friday, August 12th at 2pm PT. |
Requirements
Submit the following assets:
- A 3-minute demo video (hosted on YouTube, Facebook Video, Vimeo, or Youku). Your video should include a demo of your working application via a step-by-step visual demo.
- A way to access your working application for judging and testing by providing a URL to the publicly visible code repository, including an applicable open source license. https://opensource.org/licenses
- Please include a link to a GitHub repository containing your project. You must clearly disclose which code you wrote yourself within the timeframe of the hackathon and let the judges know about any libraries or APIs you used.
All projects must be submitted here through Devpost to be eligible for judging.
Submissions open at 7 AM PDT on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Submissions close at 2 PM PDT on Friday, August 12, 2022. Requests for late submissions will not be accepted.
Prizes
$50,000 in prizes
First Place - Jane Goodall Institute App
• $15,000 USD
• 30 min. virtual meeting with DocuSign executive
• Blog post featuring the winning app
• Opportunity to work with Jane Goodall Institute to further develop your app
First Place - Greater Good
• $10,000 USD
• 30 min. virtual meeting with DocuSign executive
• Blog post featuring the winning app
Second Place - Jane Goodall Institute App
• $7,500 USD
• Blog post featuring the winning app
Second Place - Greater Good
• $5,000 USD
• Blog post featuring the winning app
Third Place - Jane Goodall Institute App
• $3,750 USD
• Blog post featuring the winning app
Third Place - Greater Good
• $2,500 USD
• Blog post featuring the winning app
Beyond DocuSign eSignature
Award for the best implementation of a DocuSign product(s) beyond eSignature alone and/or utilizing advanced eSignature features.
• $5,000 USD
• 30 min. virtual meeting with DocuSign product development executive
• Blog post featuring the winning app
Best Use of Esri APIs &/or ArcGIS Survey123
Award for the best use of Esri APIs and/or ArcGIS Survey123 • $1,250 USD • Blog post featuring the winning app
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Inhi Suh
President, Product and Engineering - DocuSign
Lilian Pintea
Vice President, Conservation Science - Jane Goodall Institute
Kamal Hathi
Chief Technology Officer - DocuSign
Jerome Levadoux
Chief Product Officer - DocuSign
Mark Groves
Global Vice President, Platform Engineering - DocuSign
Naveen Gopala
Director, Engineering - DocuSign
Stacy Hafner
Sr. Program Manager, Developer Programs
Merlin Van Lawick
Jane Goodall Institute
Judging Criteria
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Quality of the Idea
Includes creativity and originality of the idea -
Implementation of the Idea
Includes how well the idea was executed by the developer -
Potential Value
Includes the extent to which the solution can help JGI and/or other nonprofits
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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