Hackathons

The ClerksWell Hackathon 2025 is happening!

Join us in Shoreditch on Friday 28th November for a high-energy, one-day event packed with creativity, collaboration and cause-driven coding.

We’re teaming up with 2 UK charities, Headway and Restore Hope to build digital solutions that make a real difference in people's lives.

Whether you're a seasoned developer or a creative problem-solver, this is your moment to shine! You’ll team up with brilliant minds, build something truly meaningful and pitch your solution in a live showdown to win over our panel of judges.

Prizes worth up to £10,000, including Codegarden tickets and Expert Certifications, await the winning teams!

The Challenge

Developers will work in teams of 2, so grab a teammate, get them to sign up as well and get ready to build something meaningful.

For Headway: The Brain Injury Charity

Challenge goal: help survivors communicate their condition and access personalised support anytime, anywhere.

For Restore Hope: Supporting Families in Crisis

Challenge goal: Empower families to access affordable good with dignity and track engagement through a digital system.

We’ve timed our hackathon to be just one day after the official launch of Umbraco 17, to celebrate and support the latest evolution of the platform. Use Umbraco 17 however you want in your solution and be among the first to innovate with its powerful new features (get creative with your use of Umbraco 17)

Full brief details will be shared 1 week before the event.

Sign up now to secure your place as spaces are limited and likely to run out fast.

Expect a day full of big ideas, great people, live pitches, epic prizes, and yes — plenty of snacks and drinks to keep the energy flowing.

It’s going to be fast-paced, inspiring and enjoyable for all.

We can’t wait to see what you’ll create on the day. Let’s #HackTheCause together.

To support Umbraco's Hacktoberfest, Candid Contributions and friends are hosting an online hackathon. There is no fixed agenda: people are welcome to spend their time how they want, such as:

• Getting the Umbraco CMS source code running locally to fix a bug
• Enhancing the Umbraco documentation
• Developing a package
• Writing a blog post (no-code contributions are eligible for Hacktoberfest 2022)
• Just popping by to say hello!

The hackathon will be a relaxed environment for people to share ideas, seek inspiration, get guidance, find collaborators, or just have some company whilst hacking away...

We are planning to start at 13:00 CEST on the Friday, and then again at 10:00 CEST on the Saturday. When we finish each day will depend on how long you all want to stay!

When you sign up you will be asked for your main reason for attending. This is to give us a heads up on what people might be doing. Hopefully we'll be able to put some teams together for some collaboration: we all know the best results come from working together! Or maybe you have no idea what to do, so it would be worth us planning a 'getting started' session. And just to clarify ... "I just want to say hi" is a perfectly valid reason for attending :)

To discover how you can contribute to Umbraco during Hacktoberfest, to get prepared for the hackathon or just to get started ASAP ... read the blog post from Umbraco HQ.

The hackathon will be run over Zoom and you're welcome to come and go as you please. We'll be chatting in Umbraco's Discord server too.

So sign up if you're interested in popping by, put the dates in your calendar, and see you there!

We want this to be safe space for everyone in involved: all attendees will be agreeing to Umbraco's Code of Conduct.

We’re sad that we won’t be meeting our friends, old and new, in Odense for Codegarden 2020. So we thought we’d bring a little corner of Codegarden to those who will miss what was, for many, the highlight of the Umbraco calendar.

Welcome to CodePatch! A hackathon and virtual celebration of the Umbraco community, with a sprinkling of Codegarden dust.

Follow @candidContribs for more info!

10-11 April | All Time Zones
Join Candid Contributions and fellow Umbracians around the world for a virtual hackathon this Friday and Saturday. Running 24+ hours there's space for you no matter your time zone. Come and take on an issue or drop in for a cup of tea! All skill levels welcome.

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