RAG Hack: Microsoft’s Guided RAG Hackathon in Four Languages

What it does

This repository serves as the central landing page for Microsoft’s RAG Hack, an event spanning 25+ live streams from September 3rd to September 13th. It collects the official rules, a detailed schedule in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese, office-hour links, and a curated index of external sample repositories. In short, it is a conference website stored as a GitHub repo.

The interesting bit

Instead of shipping a single framework, the project treats GitHub like an event platform—using Discussions for team matchmaking and linking out to language-specific sample repos such as azure-search-openai-demo and serverless-chat-langchainjs. It is a refreshingly honest admission that the best “code” for a hackathon is sometimes just a very good table of contents.

Key highlights

• 25+ sessions covering RAG fundamentals, GraphRAG, vision models, agents, and responsible AI
• Language-specific tracks and samples for Python, Java, JavaScript, and C#
• Multiple Azure-backed data stores: AI Search, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB
• Linked sample repos include cost estimates and low-cost deployment options
• GitHub Discussions used as a space to find teammates and ask questions

Caveats

• The repository contains no executable source code; it is strictly an event coordination hub
• Stream dates are listed without a year, making it difficult to tell if the event is upcoming, ongoing, or past

Verdict

Worth opening if you are learning RAG on Azure and want a structured syllabus of streams and starter repos. Ignore it if you are hunting for a drop-in library or SDK.