All participants must RSVP for their host city through each host city's respective web site on Fishackathon.co/register. To find a complete list of participating cities visit Fishackathon.co. Fishackathon reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time. If you are entering as part of a company or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you indiviually, and / or your employer. If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has a full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a prize. You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer's or company's policies and procedures.

Only works created between the start time and end time of each entrant's selected host city are eligilble for prizes.

The start and end times for your local Fishackathon will be determined by the indvidual host cities. All entrants must be registered and have an RSVP with a host city through Fishackathon.co/register. The RSVP page for eah host site will be updated periodically and host site organizers will reach out to registrants with event details closer to the event.

All event attendees will also need to register on Fishackathon2016.Devpost.com to be able to submit their presentation to Devpost global Fishackathon gallery at the end of the event. Presentations should be submitted as soon as possible once the event is over and no later than Monday, April 26, 2016 at 5PM EST (Tuesday, Apr 27, 2016 5AM SGT) .

Additional Requirements:

• Submissions must be entirely the original work of the entrant(s) - whether it is an individual or team;
• Submissions must not contain any advertisement or solicitation;
• Submissions must not contain anything that is or may be construed as: (i) threatening, hasrassing, degrading or hateful; (ii) defamatory; (iii) fraudulent or tortious; (iv) obscene, indecent or otherwise objectionable; or (v) protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express prior consent of the owner of such right;
• Submissions must not contain any material that would give rise to criminal or civil liability or that encourages conduct that constitues a criminal offense; and 
• Submissions must otherwise comply in all respects with these Rules and the Policies

 Any and all works created during the Fishackathon are developed under the Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License legalcode.

Fishackathon and its representatives will have no responsibility for, and will have the right to
refuse at its sole and absolute discretion, any entries that have been altered, tampered with,
misdirected, incomplete, non-conforming, corrupt, lost, late, or ineligible, whether due to
Internet or e-mail server failure or otherwise. Proof of transmission of a submission shall not
constitute proof of receipt. It is each entrant’s responsibility to keep Fishackathon.co and their
representatives informed of any changes to entrant’s contact or other information during the
Fishackathon. The U.S. Government reserves the right to develop any of the applications that
are created through the contest Fishackathon. By agreeing to participate in this event and
signing these rules, the contestants who have created the open source application(s) waive
any future claims against the Government for compensation.  

Judging is a highly subjective process, but Fishackathon.co encourages each host city's local panel judges to use the criteria below as a framework for their discussion. They're mindful that their selection represents their city's best at the global judging. Each local host site's judging panel should be about 3 -5 individuals representing fisheries experts and technology experts. Judging will be based by the following criteria:

Quality of Idea:

    0: The solution is not unique or innovative

    1: The solution provides a better/faster/clearer way to solve the problem.

    2: The new project solves a problem that has been overlooked/ignored in the past, or solves a problem with a new angle/on a bigger scale/on a higher level.

    3: The solution addresses the problem at a deeper level, making existing solutions/efforts unnecessary through disruption

Impact:

    0: Problem is not relevant to sustainable fisheries.

    1: Solutions addresses a relevant problem for sustainable fisheries, but it is diffcult to implement or scale and the team does not have a clear plan to move the project forward.

    2: Solutions addresses a relevant problem for sustainable fisheries, and it is hard to implement or scale, but the team have a clear plan to move the project forward.

    3: Solution has a predictably sustainable lifecycle and can easily be scaled.

Interface:

    0: Not usable.

    1: Usable but it is not intuitive without clear instructions

    2: Usable and clear without instructions

    3: Both intuitive and visually appealing

A panel, selected by and for the host city, of (minimum of 3) judges will use the criteria above to select a finalist for consideration of the global Fishackathon prizes at the end of the weekend.

All entrants of the Fishackathon agree to use his or her name/or likeness and the submissions for promotional purposes by Fishackathon, Fishackathon representatives, and their agencies without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law.