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Hey, everyone, it's DocuSign Good Code Hackathon
2020, and the hackathon has officially launched.
I'm Caly Heasman, the Developer Evangelism Director
at DocuSign, and to get you started today,
you're going to hear from me, as well
as our friends over at the Forest Stewardship
Council, about what you're going to build
and, most importantly, what you're going to win.
So first, if you haven't already,
head over to the main hackathon website on Devpost
at the link on your screen.
Be sure to sign up now so that you'll
get all of our announcements and updates
throughout the hackathon.
You can also join our hackathon Slack channel
so that you can ask questions and find
other people to team up with if you don't already have a team.
And lastly, we're going to be hosting
twitch streams, virtual events, mini contests,
all sorts of things throughout the hackathon
over on the DocuSign API Twitch channel.
We'll do live coding, demo sessions.
We'll walk you through sample integrations and use cases,
and you can ask all of your technical questions live.
So before we get into the challenge, and why we're here,
and, yes, the $10,000 grand prize for each
of the categories, which, of course, is certainly a draw,
I do have a couple of special guests joining me today
live from FSC.
The first is Joanna Nowakowksa, Deputy Technology
and Information Director from FSC,
and she will walk us through the challenges later.
But first, we're going to start with Loa Worm, FSC's
senior outreach and engagement officer, who is joining us now
and who is going to show us what we're working towards.
Loa--
Thanks, Caly, and hi, I'm Loa.
You may recognize FSC as this, a label on a forest product
from a sustainable source, but we're so much more than that.
We're a global community of companies, ENGOs
and social organization who came together more than 25 years ago
with a shared mission to realize the true value of forests
worldwide.
We have a unique democratic structure
where we give an equal voice to very different interests.
This makes us the incarnation of CSR.
This is also why we encompass such different groups
as Ikea and WWF, why we have both the Sami
people and the Masai people, and why we can stretch from Norway
to Nicaragua.
We work for a positive change in this world
through mutual recognition of local solutions
solving global problems.
We work for a world where we actually
solve the climate crisis.
We work for a world where peoples and communities
have a fair chance.
We work for a world where forests and animals
are thriving.
We work for forests for all forever.
Thanks so much, Loa.
It's a pretty powerful message, and we here at DocuSign
are so excited to be partnering with FSC.
Obviously, DocuSign is committed to the forests.
We have a DocuSign for Forests initiative, where every year
we partner with a different non-profit
who works on the important issue of saving the forests.
It's something near and dear to DocuSign's heart.
But Loa, I'd like to hear a little bit more
about what that relationship is like for FSC.
Well, we're so excited about this hackathon
and about DocuSign in general because this is a true chance
to innovate for our forests and for sustainability in general.
Of course, there is the part where you change away
from paper and prints because you
use online, digital signatures through DocuSigns, which we're,
of course, ourselves transitioning to,
but there is also the very big innovation
of ensuring sustainable forest management worldwide.
And this is where we can use technology
because all of you developers out there might not know it,
but there is very likely a certified forest near you,
and they are in need of your help.
If we want to ensure that we bring sustainable supply chains
to our forests worldwide, we have to solve a very real
problem that we're facing, and we cannot do audits currently
due to COVID-19.
And how do we solve that?
We need you.
But first, let me tell you a little bit more
about our mission.
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Wow, thanks so much, Loa, and I think that helps all of us
understand a little bit better about why
what we're doing here in this hackathon is so important.
So all right, now that we know that FSC certifies forests
all over the world and a little bit about what they do,
let's talk a little bit more about the certification process
itself.
And for this, I'm going to bring in Joanna from FSC.
Joanna?
Thank you very much, Caly.
So it all start from standards, which
includes requirements or rules for sustainable forest
management or for how forest products originating
from those certified forests should be handled,
and FSC does exactly that.
We developed standards through multi-stakeholder processes,
and then if a certificate holder is
interested in implementing our standards,
they do it on a voluntary basis.
Whether our standards is implemented or not
is verified by independent, third-party certification
bodies who come to the ground to certify
the operations every year to check the implementation
of our rules.
Certification bodies are then additionally overseen
by Assurance Services International.
And when a certification body confirms
that our standard is fully and correctly implemented,
they issue a certificate.
With this certificate, certificate holder
can label their products or put claims
on their sales materials.
We have two types of certification.
First type of certification is certification
of forest management, and in this case,
we will have a standard for foresters, telling them
what they should do with the forest
in order to achieve sustainable forest management.
We have at the moment around 200 million hectares
of certified forests with less than 2,000 certificates.
A product coming from such certification
will be usually a [? real ?] log, logs,
or different type of other [? real ?] forest materials.
However, you probably haven't seen the [? real ?] logs
or other type of [? real ?] forest material on the shop
shelf too often, right?
This is because before you can buy something
as a paper, a pen, a table, a [INAUDIBLE]
these materials needs to undergo multi-step processing
and to travel from one wood producer to another,
and this is where the second type of FSC certification
comes to play.
This is so-called chain of custody certification
or certification of the supply chain between the forest
and the final product.
We require that every entity between the forest
and the final product is certified
so that we can be sure that the material really originates
from certified forests and is well documented
and well handled along this whole supply chain.
We have at the moment more than 30,000 certificates of chain
of custody, and this type of certification
will be in the focus of our hackathon.
Thanks so much, Joanna.
I think now we all understand a little bit more
about how the certification process works.
So next if you could take us through a deep dive
of the hackathon challenges, please.
Thank you, Caly.
I am so excited that you will be helping
FSC in this important challenge because as many NGOs,
and as many other companies, we are
struggling in COVID-19 times.
Our certification process is based on annual site
physical visits of auditors to certify the operations.
So with all restrictions around traveling and COVID-19,
auditors cannot go and perform on-site verifications.
As a consequences, many certification processes
are on hold and, therefore, our mission gets compromised.
So what you can do about it?
Help us to do audits remotely.
With your help, we want to develop
an application that reflects real certification process.
We want this application to be as ready as possible
so that we can use it.
Because of resemblance to the real certification process,
this app has many steps.
And for that reason, we divided this Super App,
as we call it, into three subapplications.
First subapplication is introducing a new step
in certification process with self-assessment,
where our applicant for certification
will be describing how do they comply with our standards
and sharing the data with the auditors in advance.
In the second application, certification body
will be helped in deciding whether remote audit is
actually acceptable or not.
This is because we don't grant remote option just like that.
We do restrict it, depending on the risks
to our supply chain integrity, which
may be triggered, for example, by a certain location
or type of operation.
Ideally, resources in developing app one
will be used in this second application.
And the third application is about facilitating
the actual virtual audit, the visit
of auditor to the site to see certified operation completely
independently.
We wanted to find tools for auditor
to manage the image screen without having any control
by certified operator.
And Joanna, that's where the drones come in, right?
Exactly.
We are very excited and looking forward
for very cool innovations from developers in this part.
Now, technically speaking, the main challenge in application
number one is to develop different data schemas
and interfaces for entering and exchanging the data,
which are compatible with FSC schemas,
which we will provide you for the hackathon,
so we want you to make sure that [? this ?] [? all ?] resources
work together and speak to each other.
Additionally, we want you to find good tools
for exchanging the data and information between applicant
to certification and their auditors.
In application number two, the main challenge
is to expand farther on those schemas and those interfaces
with on one hand traditional data,
on another hand on GIS data because we
want that certification body can be supported
by spatial analytics in deciding or in assessing
whether the remote audit is even possible,
considering FSC credibility or risks to this credibility.
In application number three, the main challenge
is, again, even farther expansion of data
schemas and interfaces with the data and technology that
will be used in this virtual inspection of an auditor
of certified operation.
Ideally, the resources and tools developed in app one
will be used in application number two,
and resources developed in application number two
would be then used in application number three.
So those are three challenges from FSC,
and Joanna, this hackathon is a little bit
different than others that our developers might have
participated in before, right?
That's very right, Caly.
This is because we want to be innovative,
and we want to embrace the spirit of working together
in COVID-19 situation.
So what we want you to do is to collaborate on development
of the Super App in which those three subapplications are
integrated, and they work with each other in one flow.
Yeah, that's right.
What does that mean?
So we want to reward you for working together
in that spirit of global collaboration.
So if you can build all three of the FSC applications
yourself, or, ideally, if you can work with other groups
to combine all three apps into one single seamless app,
you will win our collaboration prize of $15,000
for the group that does that the best.
All right, so thanks so much Loa and Joanna.
We really do appreciate the partnership,
and we are really looking forward to this.
So for all of you, to sum it up, you
have several choices on what to build.
You can win for building the best app in any of the three
app categories that FSC is looking for,
which are an assessment app, grand prize of $10,000,
a qualification app, grand prize of $10,000,
or a virtual audit app for $10,000.
And I know I mentioned it a little bit before,
but it bears repeating.
You only have to build one of those apps to win,
but if you can team up with other groups
and build all three into one app,
you can win the $15,000 bonus collaboration
prize for the group that does that the best.
Additionally, we're going to give out
$2,500 to the team that makes the best use of Esri geocoding
APIs.
Our friends at Esri will also be joining us
for webinars throughout the hackathon
to talk to you about how to make the best
use of their awesome GIS data.
Or finally, if you have your own non-profit in mind
that you think would really benefit from digitizing
their processes using DocuSigns e-signature or other APIs,
we have another prize category just for you.
We will award a first place prize of $7,000
and a second place prize of $3,500
for the app that makes the best use of DocuSign's
e-signature or other APIs to creatively solve
for a critical need for any nonprofit company you choose.
And these here on the screen, really teeny tiny,
are the terms and conditions for participating.
And obviously, they're way too small to read them all here,
so please be sure to go read them over on the Devpost site.
And that's about it.
I'd like to thank my guests, Loa and Joanna from FSC.
Thank you so much.
And for all of you, we'll be hacking from July 7
through August 31.
I invite you to join me on Twitch
with the rest of the team, and we're really
excited to see what all of you are going to build.
Good luck.
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