November 14, 2014 at 23:55Virtual hackathon with a prize pool of $ 30,000 in early December
Three weeks later, on December 6–7, the “cloud localhost” Koding conducts an online hackathon , which you can participate in from anywhere in the world. The organizers insist that this is the first hackathon in the world in this format, but it is somehow hard to believe. In any case, the event looks interesting.
During the hackathon, participants (applications from programmers and designers are accepted) will be given a list of topics from which you need to choose one and create the appropriate application based on open data and API. However, the organizers have already indicated an approximate focus: global finance, education, healthcare, climate change, travel, etc. In my opinion, anything can be added to this list.
The developers of the best applications are promised cash prizes: Koding itself allocated $ 10,000 to the prize pool, Turkcell added $ 5,000, and the best team of freelancers with accounts on Elance.com or oDesk.com will receive another $ 2,500.
There are also special partners who are ready to give away $ 1 The 000 teams that use their APIs are PubNub , Datadog, and Sprintly .
It’s worth registering now: applications are accepted until November 21, but the number of places is limited to 1,000 teams, and half of the places are already taken. The organizers say that participants from all over the world are already registered (it’s interesting to look at programmers from Antarctica, of course).
Apply for the whole team or as an individual hackathon participant; in the latter case, it will be necessary to collect partners in the preparation process already at Koding.
If you want to participate and find a Russian-speaking team - write in the comments with a description of your skills and wishes.
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nice hackathon!
During the hackathon, participants (applications from programmers and designers are accepted) will be given a list of topics from which you need to choose one and create the appropriate application based on open data and API. However, the organizers have already indicated an approximate focus: global finance, education, healthcare, climate change, travel, etc. In my opinion, anything can be added to this list.
The developers of the best applications are promised cash prizes: Koding itself allocated $ 10,000 to the prize pool, Turkcell added $ 5,000, and the best team of freelancers with accounts on Elance.com or oDesk.com will receive another $ 2,500.
There are also special partners who are ready to give away $ 1 The 000 teams that use their APIs are PubNub , Datadog, and Sprintly .
It’s worth registering now: applications are accepted until November 21, but the number of places is limited to 1,000 teams, and half of the places are already taken. The organizers say that participants from all over the world are already registered (it’s interesting to look at programmers from Antarctica, of course).
Apply for the whole team or as an individual hackathon participant; in the latter case, it will be necessary to collect partners in the preparation process already at Koding.
If you want to participate and find a Russian-speaking team - write in the comments with a description of your skills and wishes.
Have a