Read The Dirty Secret Behind Salesforce $1M Hackathon by Alicia Liu.
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Showing posts with label hackathon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hackathon. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Should developers pay to join a hackathon?
I recently pondered this question..
There have been many times where I have seen hackathons that require developers to pay to join. As much as $50.
I understood that organizing a hackathon is not easy. It requires a lot of logistics, and not to forget the very important element - FOOD.
But many of the hackathons are sponsored by big companies such as Google/Amazon/Blackberry. So the costs are covered.
Then why still ask for $$?
PS: I understood some community hackathons have no sponsors, and it is perfectly fine that developers chip in money to buy a couple of pizzas.
There have been many times where I have seen hackathons that require developers to pay to join. As much as $50.
I understood that organizing a hackathon is not easy. It requires a lot of logistics, and not to forget the very important element - FOOD.
But many of the hackathons are sponsored by big companies such as Google/Amazon/Blackberry. So the costs are covered.
Then why still ask for $$?
PS: I understood some community hackathons have no sponsors, and it is perfectly fine that developers chip in money to buy a couple of pizzas.
Monday, February 4, 2013
An App for Hosting Hackathons
If you are organizing an hackathon, you could use hackathon.io to create and manage the event.
It covers common activities such as:
It covers common activities such as:
- Invite participants
- Invite sponsors
- Invite judge
- Create schedule
- Write rules
- Feed for event
- Judging tools (vote)
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Fabulous Prizes from OnTime API App Contest
OnTime is organizing a App Competition for developers.
Sharing this as the prizes are pretty cool. I would love to win any of the 10 prizes :)
That's the way for organizing hackathons. At least have something I want to fight for!
Dateline: March 29, 2013 (plenty of time if you start now)
OnTime is a team collaboration software. I have not tried, but I think it is like Jira, Pivotal, Trello, etc. Cool that there is an API. Perhaps I can integrate SMS into it.. hmm..
Sharing this as the prizes are pretty cool. I would love to win any of the 10 prizes :)
That's the way for organizing hackathons. At least have something I want to fight for!
Dateline: March 29, 2013 (plenty of time if you start now)
OnTime is a team collaboration software. I have not tried, but I think it is like Jira, Pivotal, Trello, etc. Cool that there is an API. Perhaps I can integrate SMS into it.. hmm..
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Zappos has an API, and organizes a winter Hackathon
Zappos API can be used to search products. The API returns complete products details including the different styles, images, reviews and statistics. There is even an AutoComplete API for you to implement search auto-complete (like how Google search did)!
Pretty fun API for an online store.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
BlackBerry Hackathon in 8 Cities
This is RIM's BBM app hackathon in
- Toronto: October 6th and 7th
- Chicago: October 10th and 11th
- San Francisco: October 16th and 17th (just in time for BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011!)
- Boston: November 3rd and 4th
- Jakarta: November 14th and 15th
- Bangkok: November 17th and 18th
- London, England: November 19th and 20th
- Amsterdam: November 23rd and 24th
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