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Nadine Testing Challenge
Test Challenge
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The organizers provide a correspondingly high-performance infrastructure, but cannot fully guarantee that the data provided will not be processed in accessible cloud computing services (e.g. for AI applications, etc.).
- Either all participants of the Hackdays or only the members of the Challenge
- Challenge members can also sign NDAs if required.
Data sets should contribute to solving the challenges. As data sets are required to solve tasks, the challenge owner's own data sets are necessary for processing in most cases. Data may only be processed on programs and servers within the network provided
The documentation of the challenges will be published on Github and on the SwissEnergy website.
The data used for the solution will not be published.
The challenges and their results are freely accessible and will be published on the homepages of opendata.ch and the BfE (Swiss Federal Office of Energy) after the event. They will be made available to interested parties (universities, engineering offices, developers, challenge owners, participants in the hackdays) for further use.
Primarily with the challenge owner. Publishing the documentation would theoretically make it possible to use them, but this has not yet been done. Complete solutions are also rarely developed as part of hackdays. Rather, they are approaches and MVPs.
Data:
As a rule, these are removed from the local server after the event. However, it is also possible to leave them on the server. In this case, they would also be available at the next event.
Models:
The documentation of the challenges is published on Github and on the SwissEnergy website. The data used for the solution is not published.
As a rule, the challenge owners take the results of the hackdays back with them and use them internally for further development > Sense and added value of open innovation.
- Data must always be provided anonymously and must meet the requirements of the data protection guidelines.
- It is at the discretion of the company to what extent the data provided should be modified in order to prevent conclusions being drawn about processes and company information (internal organizational clarifications)
- In the case of sensitive data, the organizers recommend a separate smaller event exclusively with the challenge owner