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tags: [Mobile, Open Source]
author: anja_kienzler
author_email: daniel.wehrle@haufe-lexware.com, anja.kienzler@haufe-lexware.com
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A Hackathon is a kind of software prototype development marathon. This year the second Freiburg hackathon took place. The target was to develop an application for “Newcomers” to the city of Freiburg in 48 hours (Friday evening to Sunday morning). We accepted this challenge with the idea to create less-stressful way to manage the necessary administrative procedures at “Burgeramt Freiburg” (city government administrative services) for foreigners and employees alike with the possibility to extend the system to other official city departments at a later point.
![Hackathon Logo]({{ site.url }}/images/FR-hackathon-2016/2016_09_08_11_22_05_Hackathon_2016.png){:style="margin:auto"}
### The technologies
Among newcomers, smartphones are more common than personal computers, and we decided to build an smartphone app instead of a website because the solution required personal user settings and an offline mode function which we shall address below. The project goals we defined were: