Come hack something cool!
Incentives:
We all have cool projects that we really want to code, but, due to our busy Berkeley schedules, just can't seem to find the time to work on projects outside of school. Well coders, this is our night! This is your night!
Come out and code something cool!
We will provide 5 large meals: dinner, midnight sushi, early morning dinner, breakfast, and lunch. We will provide unhealthy snacks, healthy snacks, energy drinks, fruit, and food all night long!
We will give out big prizes: 1st place is big shiny 24'' LCD monitors, 2nd place is 128gb SSDs, 3rd place is Kindle Fires. We're giving small gifts to two honorable mention teams, an all newbie team, and a good4theworld project.
Logistics:
Coding starts at 6pm Friday.
Coding ends at noon Saturday.
Presentations begin afterwards.
Our wonderful sponsors are Ness and Heroku!
**Hackathon Kickoff**
Our kickoff event is Thursday Feb 16th 6:30-8:30pm in the Woz. Come learn about our event, learn about Ness, and learn about Heroku!
Update: Ness is giving a talk about the technologies they use in web development. Heroku is giving a live demo of their technology.
Note: Kickoff start time changed from 6pm to 6:30pm.
Registration for the Hackathon is day-of.
It is important to write a good description of your project (about 1-2 sentences). "We coded a cool project using Kinect," while interesting, says nothing about your project whatsoever. (Yes, that was my sentence on the registration page last semester.)
Using svn or git for your team is strongly advised and can be set up before 6pm. We judge on whatever code you produce that night.
Update: We are requiring Github submissions this year.
Github has excellent tutorials on how to use git and how to setup a repository on github. This type of technology can be life-saving for group projects. For those who know svn, you can use svn with github via git+svn.
http://help.github.com/
Our judges include CSUA alumni, representatives from Heroku and Ness, and our very own faculty Brian Harvey!
Teams of 4 students preferred.
Yes, you can code alone or in pairs or in a group of 5 if you want, but we're only handing out 1 prize to a lone star, 2 prizes to a team of 2, proceeding up to 4 prizes for a team of 4+ people. You'll have to distribute the prizes amongst your group.
To be eligible for prizes, your team must consist entirely of CAL undergraduates, with teams of 4 or lower receiving preference. The point of this hackathon is to write that hack you've always wanted to do, or really want to do right now! Prizes, while super awesome, are merely an incentive to get you to stay up all night long, as is the 24 hours of food.
There are 3 large prize groups! 1st place winners get first pick at the prizes, then 2nd place group, then 3rd place. There are also prizes for newbie, good for the world, etc.
Heroku is super useful for development and I'm sure many of you will end up using them for your hacks. Let it be known that the use of Heroku's services will not affect judging one way or the other. And in case you didn't know, Harvey is a big fan of Scheme.
Come! Hack! Thrive! It's going to be one hell of a night!
Hackathon and Kickoff are ASUC sponsored/ADA accessible.
