<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Hi all,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">We’ve received some questions regarding the Hackathon, please find the answers below.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">When will you announce team? </b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Saurab will update the website later today with all the project titles, and the details to the submission forms on the Hackathon website today (<a href="https://7th-ndn-hackathon.named-data.net/" class=""><span style="color: #e4af0a" class="">https://7th-ndn-hackathon.named-data.net/</span></a>). Right now it just contains a brief description, we will update the details later. Right now we have around 20 topics and some are still updating.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">How will the team formation take place? </b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">We will send out a poll later today containing the topics and people can fill their name under the one they are interested in. This is done in a first come first serve basis.</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 17px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">What about the proposal pitching? </b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Teams will be formed in advance, since NIST can start working from 9am their time, that’s 6am pst so we should have all the teams formed by Friday night Oct.19. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">What platform you will use for the starting and ending session? And how long will these sessions last?</b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">We will use bluejeans, Prof Wang has created a link please see below, we’ll post it on the hackathon website as well. We will have one laptop from each site constantly connected with the camera and audio on, mic muted unless we wanna talk to the other sites, we can also show what’s going on in the other sites as well through the camera. One representative from each site will take care of the communication, I will be responsible for UCLA, Saurab for Memphis, Teng for Arizona, Klaus for NIST. Other remote participants can also join the link to ask questions and keep track of what’s going on. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">We will give the starting session (around 15min) and project presentation (around 40minutes to 1h) on bluejeans as well.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Bluejeans link below:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">-----------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">To join the Meeting:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="https://bluejeans.com/505221277" class="">https://bluejeans.com/505221277</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">To join via Room System:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Meeting ID : 505221277</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">To join via phone :</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">1) Dial:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>+1.408.740.7256 (US (San Jose))</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>+1.888.240.2560 (US Toll Free)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>+1.408.317.9253 (US (Primary, San Jose))</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class=""><span style="color: #454545" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(see all numbers - <a href="http://bluejeans.com/numbers" class=""><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class="">http://bluejeans.com/numbers</span></a>)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">2) Enter Conference ID : 505221277</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 17px;" class=""><b class=""> </b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">Is there any specific collaborative platform participants or teams may use – that organizer suggests?</b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">We will have a slack channel for each project. People can choose to use other real-time chatting apps (Skype etc) depending on their need.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">Can participant submit final demo and project via youtube video?</b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Yes, if some people have time conflict, they can have someone present their video for them on bluejeans or just send it to the organizers. We will also use blue jeans for the final presentation. (The speaker can present using the one laptop on each site, and others from the same site can mute). </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">If you have any other questions please feel free to email the NDN Hackathon Organizers: <a href="mailto:7th-ndn-hackathon@named-data.net" class="">7th-ndn-hackathon@named-data.net</a></div></body></html>