The State of the League (2020)

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

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 2020
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. 1,200 + Events Organized
12. 95,000 + Hackers Empowered
13. 39 % of hackers identified as female or non-binary.
14. Lia Yeh University of California, Santa Barbara
15. Sarina Abrishamcar University of California, Santa Barbara
17. We powered 16 hackathons focused on empowering underrepresented hackers last season.
18. We’re lagging in racial & ethnic diversity.
19. It’s time to change that.
21. Nothing has changed. Everything! ^
22. 70 % of hackers are unsure they’ll attend events in-person this year.
23. 10 % of hackers participated in an online hackathon before COVID-19.
24. Virtual events are scary.
25. Jacklyn Biggin University of Leeds, United Kingdom
27. Virtual events were here to stay.
28. 16 hackathons in 16 weeks. We planned
29. [VIDEO]
30. 35 % of hackers plan to keep hacking at virtual hackathons after COVID.
31. MLH Virtual Hackathon Organizer Guide. We codified all the best practices we learned into a guide that will teach you how to organize a world-class virtual hackathon from start to finish. guide.mlh.io
32. Virtual Peer Groups – You’re not alone! Peer Groups are like mini Hackcons year-round. Hear directly from other organizers & collaborate to come up with solutions to the challenges you’re facing together. hackp.ac/peer-groups
33. Software Prizes Coach Mini-Events Everything you love & more.
34. +
35. Introducing Hacker Swag Packs. Your hackers will each receive a personalized swag pack in the mail with goodies to help them show off their hacker pride. Tons of Stickers Promo Credit Personalized Letter Season T-Shirt
36. Ellie the Electric Elephant. Meet your 2021 Season Mascot
37. Swag Logistics. Tap directly into MLH’s
38. Fully Remote Hardware Lab. Introducing the
39. Weekend Tech Workshops. Make your event beginner friendly with
40. New Peer Groups New Member Event Perks Virtual Organizer Guide
41. What does it mean to have a local community in a remote world?
42. Strong communities gather regularly.
43. Nigel Brown University of California, San Diego
44. The skills & network I gained through MLH helped me land a great job at IBM. “
45. Fragmentation is one of the biggest risks to our community.
46. Weekly Event Series. Bring your club together at our new
47. Introducing OrganizerHQ. The software platform that MLH built to help organizers plan more than 2,000 events. It streamlines the planning process & makes organizing simple. organize.mlh.io
48. It’s planning & event management all in one! Public event website Attendee registration Custom questions organize.mlh.io
50. All the MLH Localhost content you love. The entire MLH Localhost library is available on organizer HQ for you to organize for your community today and it’s easier than ever to get started. organize.mlh.io
51. A global celebration of learning, building & sharing.
52. 17,000 + Local Hack Day Attendees
54. OrganizerHQ Access LHD + Hacktoberfest Weekly Localhost Workshops
55. 45,000 + Hackers lost their jobs due to COVID.
57. 150 MLH Fellows are about to graduate!
58. Prosper Opara Federal University of Technology Owerri
59. Joining the Fellowship was a game changer for me. The skills I learned helped me launch my career & land my first full-time job as a Software Engineer. “
61. Explorer Fellowship Build out your portfolio of personal projects & try new technologies in series of hackathon-like sprints. Open Source Fellowship Learn how to be a great Open Source citizen by contributing to major projects on GitHub. This Fall, we’re launching our second fellowship program.
62. Part-Time. Now you can do the fellowship
63. Need-Based. Stipends & Scholarships are now
64. Interview Fast Track Top Teams from Member Events join the
65. Need-based Stipends Fast Track Prizes New Fellowship Options
66. Nothing has changed. Everything! ^
67. Team MLH will be right there with you, every step of the way!
68. We’re hiring Coaches! mlh.io/coaches
69. Thanks, I’m Swift swift@mlh.io @SwiftAlphaOne