#HACK Sydney 2025
A codeathon/hackathon where you can use your technical skills to create lasting Gospel-centered impact.
Join a team. Respond to a challenge.
Hosted by Global Recordings Network Australia in partnership with Indigitous.
Date: Friday 3rd October and Saturday 4th October
Time: 9am to 6pm daily, but you can stay later if you want to hang out.
GRN will provide food, snacks and drinks.
Location: GRN Australia, Level 2, 1/36 Stoddart Rd, Prospect NSW 2148
You can register your interest here or for more information contact Rob McDonell.
Projects
Generation of pictures to match existing style
Artificial intelligence: GRN has hundreds of colourful pictures of biblical scenes to accompany their audio programs. More pictures are required in the same style for audio tracks that currently have no suitable image.
Platform for managing micro-volunteering
Software research: Investigate tools for managing volunteering and recommend a solution for GRN. It needs to handle very small tasks that may take as little as an hour or two.
Language Identification
Artificial intelligence and web/app development: GRN has collected audio recordings in over 6,500 language varieties since 1939. Develop a simple app or website that uses an existing AI model to identify someone’s spoken language. This will help people find the material in their own language.
Redesign of GRN website
Web design and development: Propose and implement a new elegant design for the GRN website, particularly the header and footer areas.
Improve Sunday School Lessons app
Android™ software development: GRN’s Sunday School Lessons app is its fastest growing app. Help make it better by:
- Improving navigation and search
- Adding alternate audio languages
- Adding a function for typing personal notes into each lesson.
Add third-party content to the 5fish website
Web development: To help minority language speakers discover a wider variety of Gospel content in their language, 5fish provides links to third party content such as the Jesus Film and audio Bibles. It would be nice to integrate this content better into the 5fish website so they can play the content without users needing to leave the site.
SEO/ASO
Digital marketing: Increase the reach of GRN’s websites and apps so that more people have the opportunity to hear the Gospel in their language.
Analyse GRN’s Script Library
Artificial Intelligence: Create a batch process to read all the scripts in GRN’s script library, and for each one
- Analyse for clarity and theological accuracy
- Analyse for overlap with other scripts
- Produce a summary
- Derive a list of themes
- Suggest improvements
- Rewrite for specific target audiences
Simultaneous Babel event game
Web development: Create an engaging game that utilises GRN’s extensive collection of languages. This could be used as an ice breaker at an event and help raise awareness of the diversity of languages spoken in the world. Serves as a multiplayer version of GRN’s existing Babel Language Guessing Game for Android™.
- Everyone in an auditorium opens a link on their phone and plays the game at the same time
- Scores are immediately posted
- Each participant may hear the same set of languages at the same time or a different set
- Number of rounds configurable