That was a very fun challenge to participate in and the format or just a part of it could as @Fuzheado say be an opportunity for engagement. I'm happy to volunteer(together with others) to make this happen.

+1, I volunteer and I'll be very glad to help reproduce this fun activity.

Very cool idea 👐

I've added the template to the description, please fill it once you know who will lead/own the session

I'm interested in partaking in this too.

Hi @Fuzheado @Abbe98 and @VIGNERON, thank you so much for offering this session!

Here's our suggestion: we would schedule a kickstart session on Friday 21st at 19:00 UTC, so you can already onboard people and form teams, and people could keep working during the rest of the weekend, and possibly present at the showcase on Sunday.
What do you think?
How long should be the kickstart session on Friday? You mentioned 2 hours, is it still what you need?
Thanks in advance!

My perception is that two hours is the total timeframe for solving the queries. The fun and challenging part was to solve them under time pressure. To make questions that will take days to solve will be unreasonably hard. The kickstart could be 5 minutes long.

Yes, the challenge itself is only 2 hours (it's already long enough, I can attest it :P).
I think it's important to prepare some page, explaning the principle of the challenge and a list of people who want to participate.

And once the challenge is over, people may coms to us - the organizers - if they have questions and comments (like they would ask in the corridor if it was an offline event), so it's good to be at the beggining of the hackathon (Friday evening or Saturday morning is both good).

Very well, thanks for your answers! We will make sure that you have a 2-hours slot and a Jitsi room, on Friday 21st at 19:00 UTC, if this still works for you :)

Should this perhaps move to the Social events column on the board?

As you prefer :)
I'm super excited about the data challenge! As a reminder, it takes place tomorrow at 19:00 UTC / 21:00 CEST.
Is there anything you need support with?

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