The State of the League (2019)

These are the slides that I presented during the keynote address of MLH Hackcon VII.

This is going to be a HUGE year for hackers. Join me as I walk through everything the MLH community has achieved in the last year and lay the path forward for all we can achieve together in the coming one. This annual address serves as Major League Hacking's B-Corp Impact Report.

Transcript

1. State of the League August 2019
2. They call me Swift • CEO & Co-Founder of Major League Hacking (MLH). • Aspiring lawyer who became a hacker instead. • Empowering hackers for 10 years now. swift@mlh.io @SwiftAlphaOne
4. High School. My story started in
5. New Job. I needed to find a
6. There must have been a Mistake
7. Embarrassed Talking about my job made me feel
8. What is a hackathon?
9. anything like it. I’d never experienced
10. Lawyer I want to be a Hacker
11. Ch-ch-changes
12. 1,000+ Events Organized
13. 3,000+ Organizers Strong
14. 90,000+ Hackers Empowered
15. of all the developers in the United States. 10%
16. have never attended a hackathon before. 50%
17. Big & Strong. Want your communities to be both
18. Anuhya Challagundla The University of Maryland, Baltimore County
19. Doctor Anuhya wanted to be a Designer Pilot Hacker
20. when she started using her skills on personal projects Anuhya started to love coding
21. Anuhya was inspired by the community. It was nothing like what she expected!
22. How hard could organizing a hackathon really be? Well, Anuhya found out the hard way!
24. What is a Coach?
25. Fireside
27. Always Be Cultivating
28. Have no idea what they’ll build. 86%
29. $17,000+ Hardware Software Prizes Swag in benefits for your event
30. every second counts. At a hackathon,
31. Hackathon Starter Kits MLH & GitHub powered hack.mlh.io/learn Get Started:
32. A mentor is just a away. Powered by
33. of mentors resolved the issue. 95%
34. mentors.mlh.io Sign up today: The Mentor Matcher is out of beta.
35. Ducky the Debugger Meet your 2020 Season Mascot
36. Rubber Duck Debugging Ducky was inspired by
37. Working with easier ever before. than MLH is ever
38. PRESS START TO BEGIN A NEW PARTNERSHIP.
39. + Zach Latta & Linus Lee Founder, Hack Club Product, Hack Club
40. + It’s still too hard to start and grow a great hackathon.
41. + Hack Club Bank
42. + Fully managed bank account Invoices, Taxes, Cards 501(c)(3) non-profit status
43. + Spectra +
44. + hack.af/bank discounted rate until Sept 1st
45. +
46. Athul Blesson Adi Shankara Inst. of Engineering & Tech
47. Athul taught himself to code. But it was difficult & lonely.
48. That’s when Athul heard about Hack Club
50. + =
53. 10,000+ Hackers Empowered
54. He wanted every hacker to have a community like his. That wasn’t enough for Athul.
56. Important Weekend of the year. For our community, Hackcon is the most
57. Hackcon Digital October 5th & 6th, 2019
58. great organizers everywhere. There are
59. MLH is coming to Asia-Pacific. This Fall,
60. Joe Nash Former MLHer & GitHubber
62. Christopher Gu & Luis Ocampo Missouri University of Science & Technology
63. Doctor I want to be a Hacker
64. didn’t know the first thing about organizing hackathons. Chris & Luis
65. The MLH Hackathon Organizer Guide. Read & contribute: guide.mlh.io
66. Peer Groups Virtual meetups for the MLH organizer community.
67. Aren’t you from Peer Groups?
70. a strong network of hackathons & clubs across the midwest. Chris & Luis want to build
71. strong network to support them. Chris & Luis built a
72. 100+ Peer Groups
73. Community Experts. Meet your brand new
74. Peer Groups do have a problem.
75. community.mlh.io Sign up today: Digital Organizer Community
76. Sharing knowledge Growing their network Recruiting new leaders
77. Charmaine Lee The University of British Columbia
78. learn, build, & share. Charmaine wanted to
79. everyone she knew. Charmaine shared hackathons with
80. too damn high. The barrier to entry was
82. Charmaine’s community fizzled out. With nothing to do,
85. 500+ Workshops Hosted
86. 30x Workshops & many more!
88. October 12th, 2019 LEARN
89. 30 Localhost Modules 3 Local Hack Days APAC League 100’s of Peer Groups Digital Community Live + Digital Hackcon There’s a lot to do
90. hackp.ac/communities Sign up today: Official Hacker Communities
91. Snacks & Drinks! AND you’ll get a budget for hackp.ac/communities Sign up today:
92. Thanks for being you!
93. Thanks, I’m Swift swift@mlh.io @SwiftAlphaOne