Comment by parfe | Hacker News Reader

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The author writes: "After deliberating, the judges announced a new “Most Inspirational” category" but this category is not new. The author seems to have misinterpreted the course of events. Based on clicking the blog's twitter link, this is the hackathon attended by the author:

https://2013.spaceappschallenge.org/location/new-york/

https://2014.spaceappschallenge.org/location/new-york/

https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/location/new-york-ny/

And the project in question that didn't deserve the award, in the author's opinion: http://aekblaw.wix.com/asteroidascent

they also have a sample curricula http://media.wix.com/ugd/57f674_99d136685bfe400f80022bc3652e...

and a code repo https://github.com/spaceappsnyc/asteroidascent

Going to the about page: https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/about/ the word "hackathon" is not mentioned once. Instead it introduces itself as:

"an international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that takes place over 48-hours in cities around the world"

a Wix site and a sample curriculum certainly doesn't sound like an unfair entry here.

Are you sure that's the right team? Pretty much every commit in the repo is by a man, and I thought the author mentioned an all-woman team.

Their entry page lists three women and one man (same one as the Git repo commits): https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/project/asteroidascent/

i can confirm this, i was there at the hackathon

EDIT - I didn't realize those links where for 3 years of the same event...

The hackathon you link to is from 2013, the article is from 2 days ago and that repo you link had its first commit 4 days ago.

Perhaps her experience is based off what was presented 2 years ago at the actual hackathon and not what they've produced in the subsequent time?

I think the timeline is correct and the article is about 2015. The Most Inspirational of the 2015 event, which was held April 11, 4 days ago, involved a Wix website. Neither of the other years appear to.

Yeah, I realized that... decided to edit the comment with that info (rather than delete) in case someone else was gonna make the same wrong assumption as me.

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