This is a work-in-progress documentation on how to use Junction App. This guidebook is open-source and we hope that you comment and create additions to the content here.
Table of contents
In Junction App, there are a lot of different stakeholders with different permissions and roles in the event.
- Participant
- Partner
- Organizer
- Team
Sign in to your account → choose the three horizontal line → Create event
Create a new event → write your event’s name and click on Create
Sign in to your account → choose the hamburger menu on top → Create event Choose the event at “Your events” → Manage Now you can see the event’s editorial page
- Cover image: uploading cover image
- Event logo: uploading a logo for the event
- Event name
- Description: here you can put links, pictures and shape your text
- Organizations organizing the event: adding other organizers
- Link to challenge descriptions (URL link)
- FAQ link (URL link)
- Demo instruction link (URL link)
- Privacy Policy for this event (URL link)
- Terms and Conditions for this event (URL link)*
- Event page customization: customizing the colors for your event page (header, side and sidebar background, text color)
*these are shown at the end of the signup process
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Published: as soon as you finalized your event you can switch to “Yes”
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Additional important information here: The event needs to be approved by the administration before it's public. It can be set published, but it will be pending until that happens.
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Project Gallery open: Yes / No - as soon as the projects have been uploaded, switch to “Yes”
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Projects submitted per challenge: basically “No” - if we want that one team can only submit only one project for a challenge they chose during the event (if we want them to submit many projects then switch to “Yes”) Event type: online / offline
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Does this event have multiple tracks?: depends on event, if “Yes”, you can give the different Tracks
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Does this event have multiple challenges?: usually “Yes”, as soon as you have the final challenges switch to “Yes” and then you must give basic informations for the challenge (Name - Unique slug - Partner name)
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Reviewing method: Gavel, peer-reviewing: teams can evaluate each other with the help of the Gavel algorithm which gives a weighted average at the end. If the event has no tracks, then all participants evaluate each other. If there are tracks, evaluation is within a track. Basically: teams may review other teams from the same track and from the same challenge! Manual review: ... Overall winner method
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Finals, public voting: Finals, manual selection: organizers can choose teams who will go to the finals Projects → choose the project, click on it → “Does this project go to finals!” check the box
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No overall winner:
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Allow vote on own projects: “Yes / No” - usually no, since we don’t want them to vote on their on projects
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Is finalist voting open: “Yes” / “No” -
- Timezone: choose according to your city
- Dates you must set up: .._ start and end of the registration .._ start and end of the event .._ start and end of project submission .._ start and end of reviewing
Here you can configure the questions to be included in the application form.
Red ones are required, green are optional and white ones are hidden.
This feature is currently under construction. If you need detailed information dumps from the database, please contact hello@hackjunction.com.
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Participants: you can check your registered participants and their status (Incomplete / Checked-in / No-show), and send them emails or download a list of them.
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Teams: you can check the registered teams and according to the method mentioned above you can also export them
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Assigned to you: Organizers can assign applications within their team for other team members to evaluate. It can be very practical if you have many people going through eg. hundreds of applications.
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Travel: relevant at offline events. Handle travel grants and other practicalities for the participants.
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Admin & tools: statistics regarding the registrations
- All projects: all projects in one place, check the box in the green strip and you can download them
- By challenge: projects by challenges, here you can generate a link for a challenge’s projects by choosing the challenge and then you will see this blue box → “Generate partner link”
- Gavel voting: here you can see the results of the gavel voting
- Gavel annotators: under construction
- Winners: you will see those teams here that you selected when you adjusted the overall winner method to manual selection
- Overview:
- Overall results: redirect to the “Overall” section
- Track results: redirect to the “Track” section (only if you have tracks)
- Challenge results: redirect to the “Challenges” section
- Overall: you can put all projects in order if you have tracks than select only the TOP 3 project
- Challenges: you can put projects in order by challenges you can select the first, second, third etc. places (choose the challenge on the left side and then pull up projects from below)
only for offline events
only for offline events
Organisers: adding and removing organisers Adding someone as an organiser: click on “Add organisers” and give the exact email address of the person (pay attention ‘cause you’ll get many options so select the proper one carefully)
- Good to know (work in progress section)
- after projects have been submitted set the projects to published in the Configuration section set the project gallery to opened -II- ask the teams to set their source code to public otherwise we’ll not be able to check them if you have an external jury, send them the project links
- Finalist voting process: