Hacktoberfest Hack Day Baku x Tea && Compile
Hacktoberfest 2026
65A Atatürk prospekti Baku, Baku AZ1069 Azerbaijan
Event Description
One Saturday. One café. Your idea, built with AI.
Hacktoberfest 2026 is about open-source AI, and this Hack Day is for people who would rather build than watch. Bring a half-baked idea (or none at all) and by 15:00 you'll have something running, in front of a room of people who get it.
HOW THE DAY WORKS
- Come solo or with friends. Teams of up to 3, formed on the spot if you need one.
- Pick your own idea: a bot, a script, a tool, an agent, a weird experiment. If you built it and it uses AI, it counts.
- Use whatever helps you build: open-weight models, open-source tools, or an AI coding assistant. Projects that are open source and use open-weight models get extra love in the final vote.
- At the end, push your project to a public repo (we'll help if it's your first time) and show a 2-minute demo.
- No judging panel. Friendly demos, and the room votes for its favourites.
DETAILS
📅 Saturday, October 17, 2026
🕙 10:00–15:00
📍 CoffeeLea Atatürk, Baku
💸 Free to attend.
👥 Limited seats (it's a café!)
🎒 Bring: a laptop, a charger, a GitHub account (or we'll set one up at the door)
WHO IT'S FOR
Students, graduates, developers and self-taught tinkerers, 18+. Never touched an AI API before? Perfect, that's exactly who we're hoping for.
Hosted by Tea && Compile, a new open-source and Linux community in Baku.
Who can attend?
Locations have different requirements for who can attend. This location is open to the following:
Schedule
- 10:00 — Check-in, grab a drink, find a seat
- 10:20 — Welcome: what Hacktoberfest is and how the day works
- 10:30 — Quick-start: building with open-source AI (10 min, for anyone without an idea yet)
- 10:45 — Idea round: pitch your idea in 60 seconds, form teams or go solo
- 11:05 — Hacking time 🛠️
- 12:45 — Short break
- 13:00 — Hacking continues
- 14:00 — Wrap-up: push your project to a public repo (we'll help if it's your first time)
- 14:15 — Demos: 2 minutes each
- 14:45 — The room votes, winners announced
- 14:55 — Group photo
- 15:00 — End
Additional Information
Links & Resources
Agent Skills Explained: What They Are, What They Aren't, and How to Use Them
Overview of the Agent Skill Open Standard and SKILL.md authoring.
Open link →A Developer's Guide to Open-Weight LLM API Integration
Guide to deploying and integrating large open-weight LLMs.
Open link →How to Run Google's Gemma 4 Locally with Ollama
Local setup and edge execution for models under 10B parameters.
Open link →Hermes Agent: A Practical Guide
Setting up and orchestrating workflows using open-source agent harnesses.
Open link →Zero to demo in 5 hours: a survival guide
A practical plan for your first AI hack day: check for existing projects, shrink your idea, pick tools that work on an ordinary laptop, build in thin slices, publish as open source, and deliver a 2-minute demo.
Open link →Hosted by
Rasul Gojayev
I am a first-year master's student and developer based in Baku, Azerbaijan, organizing this event independently. My goal is to bring the local developer community together - students from any university, recent graduates, and self-taught developers - to learn about and build with open-source AI tools. This is the first Hacktoberfest event in Baku, and I want to create an accessible entry point into open source for people here.