Welcome

Join us online and in person March 24-26, 2025, for the nf-core hackathon! 🗓️

You can join for free from wherever you are online, or travel to a local site to hack with other Nextflow / nf-core enthusiasts in person!

To get a feel for how the event will work, check out the similar style hackathons that we held in 2023 (16 local sites, 407 attendees) and 2024 (23 local sites, 466 attendees).

Host a local site

We are now accepting registrations from organizers interested in hosting local hackathon sites 🎉

Anyone is welcome to host a site: you don’t need to be an expert or have prior experience with hackathons.

What you’ll need:

• Access to a dedicated space for the duration of the event
• Decent wifi and a bunch of extension cables
• Enthusiasm!

Any space will do: be it a meeting room for 5-10 people through to larger spaces to accommodate more.

The steps to host a site are:

1. ✍️ Fill in the local site registraion form below
2. 👩🏻‍💻 Coordinate with the hackathon organisers to create a site-specific webpage on this website
3. 📢 Advertise - both locally and online
4. ☎️ During the event: act as a contact point with the hackathon organisers

For more details, see the About nf-core hackathons bytesize talk:

🍕 In previous years, Seqera has sponsored pizza. We’re not yet sure how much funding will be available in 2025 or what shape it will take, so please don’t plan around this.

📆 There is no closing date for local site registration, however the sooner you register your interest the better. We use the site names in the main registration form and it really helps with planning. Also if we know about your site we’ll have more time to help advertise and get folks to join!

If you have any questions, jump into the #hackathon-mar-2025 channel on the nf-core Slack and we’ll be happy to help.

Registration

You will be able to find the list of local sites and register to join as a participant in mid-to-late January.