Hacktoberfest Hack Day Portimão x StartAlgarve
Hacktoberfest 2026
R. Joaquim Agostinho Fernandes 1 Cv 2 Portimão, Portimão 8500-406 Portugal
Event Description
Ready to build the future? Join StartAlgarve for an intensive, full-day mini-hackathon as we dive headfirst into Hacktoberfest 2026!
This year’s theme is all about Open-Source Artificial Intelligence. Whether you are an AI expert or just curious to see what’s possible, this is your chance to connect with the local community, learn new tools, and ship code.
Powered by MLH + Dev, this Hack Day is the perfect place to collaborate and innovate. Bring your ideas, your laptop, and your passion for open source.
We are calling all students, founders, developers, AI enthusiasts, remote workers, and locals in the Algarve to make some noise!
Happy hacking!
Who can attend?
Locations have different requirements for who can attend. This location is open to the following:
Links & Resources
Hermes Agent
The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research.
Ollama
Use open models in your desktop apps and coding agents, or build them into your application.
LiteRT-LM
LiteRT-LM is Google's production-ready, high-performance, open-source inference framework for deploying Large Language Models on edge devices. https://github.com/google-ai-edge/LiteRT-LM https://huggingface.co/litert-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-litert-lm
Agent Skills
A standardized way to give AI agents new capabilities and expertise.
Pi Agent
Pi is a minimal agent harness.Adapt Pi to your workflows, not the other way around. https://github.com/earendil-works/pi
🔮 Hermes Agent 🤖: A Practical Guide 🔥 — and How It Stacks Up Against OpenClaw & GoClaw 📊
A practical deep-dive for engineers, founders, and curious builders.
LiteRT-LM model host for ADK agents
You can use the LiteRT-LM library to efficiently run language models locally on various compute devices without requiring specialized processors such as graphics processing units (GPU) or tensor processing units (TPU). LiteRT-LM supports many models, including Google Gemma models as well as third-party models. This guide provides instructions for setting up LiteRT-LM with ADK for the following languages: Python Kotlin
How to Run a Hermes Agent on DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime provides managed, hardware-isolated microVM sandboxes with built-in tools such as Chromium to run harnesses and execute arbitrary code.
omlx.ai
Local AI, no more waiting on your Mac.
vLLM
vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving.
Gemma Skills
Skills for the Gemma and model/agent interactions
Google AI Studio
Try gemma 4 on Google AI Studio
Bring state-of-the-art agentic skills to the edge with Gemma 4
An App gallery that showcases on-device ML/GenAI use cases and allows people to try and use models locally.
Picrew awesome-agent-harness
An awesome list of Agent Harness engineering resources, including GitHub projects, tools, benchmarks, and practical guides.
Arduino Uno Q
Arduino UNO Q bridges high-performance computing with real-time control. Get power and ease of use – all wrapped up into UNO.
llama.cpp
LLM inference in C/C++
Agent-2-Agent Protocol (A2A)
An open standard enabling users to connect agents to tools and data through MCP, and to other agents through A2A.
Agent Harness — A complete guide
There isn’t much more to understanding Agent Harness than what's in here! but it's a starting point.
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StartAlgarve
A group focused on creating an ecosystem for technology startups and innovation in the Algarve.