@Sohayeb and @zmorda I recommend connecting with @BlackForestBoi to see whether you might be able to collaborate around process of preparing and running the hackathons.
For example. Much of the work of preparing a hackathon happens remotely/online. And it requires people with technical skills to take on certain roles:
- Help to coordinate the process of requirements engineering, matchmaking skills and needs
- Person(s) to organise communication with teams, spread messages, organise calls and publishing of requests for the teams who seek support
- Moderator for the event
- Coaches:
- Business Models & Product development, Open Source development
- Person well connected with funding networks/opportunities
Perhaps @zmorda and @Sohayeb can find people to take on some of this work. And so all the hackathons can follow the same funnel/process as the organiser @BlackForestBoi has described here:
As for the actual challlenges for the participants you want to engage via/for the OCI Lab, perhaps this summary of a presentation on tech Moonshots for climate change could serve as inspiration
If this is of interest it could just be good idea to invite the crew who ran it ito do repeat of their excellent talks at techfest from which I took the notes above. Perhaps with a question and answer session with participants via chat after - One of the speakers and authors of the report mentioned in there, @btincq ,is already here but you would have to discuss with him and Manuela interest, availability etc .