Report on the HackDay # 8 in Yaroslavl

November 20-21, 2010 HackDay # 8 was held. The event was first held in Yaroslavl. The venue was chosen 7th building of Yaroslavl State University. P. G. Demidova (corps of computer scientists and mathematicians).
In total, 50 people took part in the event.
From the moment of launch until November 20th, 72 participants were registered on the site.
Until November 20th, 8 projects were announced on the site. At the presentation of the projects 7 projects were announced.
At the Demofest 5 projects were demonstrated.
Event photo report: http://picasaweb.google.com/yarhack/HackDay8?feat=directlink Event
video report: http://youtube.com/yarhack#p/u
Full event report:http://hackday.ru/events/hackday-8/509.html

Round table

As part of the event, a round table was held on the following issues.

1. Can a startup in Yaroslavl survive? What are the big cities (Moscow, Petersburg) creating it here?
2. Do I need events like HackDay? How to make an event better?
3. Creation of IT-community in the city and the region. If necessary? What for? How can a community be useful?

Demofest Projects

1. Wandering Desu
   Multiplayer online game. The game is a walker in which you can chat, play Tower Defense together, fight monsters and other players. One of the main achievements within HackDay is the “endless” auto-generated world.
   
2. JugglingOnCanvas A
   service for jugglers that implements site swap notation. An animation is drawn in the canvas tag (HTML5 standard): a juggler executing a site swap sequence entered by the user.
   
3. Location-aware ToDo
   Mobile application (for Android) that allows you to set a place and its corresponding task. The application itself tracks the user's location and at the right time reminds of the business planned at the current place.
   
4. Roman Algorithm
   Implementation of an algorithm that minimizes additional time spent on parallel computing (applications for solving the dynamic multiprocessing schedule problem of size N by M, where N is greater than M).
   
5. Guitar battle A
   game of the fighting genre, in which control is performed using an electric guitar connected to a computer.
   

Winners and Nominees

Winners were determined by team voting. Each team was given a questionnaire, the teams had the right to vote for any 3 projects, except their own. Also, the partners who attended the demofest participated in the voting: Tensor company, SeoPuzzle company (as a representative of UMI Soft), Yar GTUG, Mikhail Kechinov Studio.
Teams that took 4th and 5th place received incentive prizes: 3 certificates for annual domains in the zone. Russian Federation, certificates worth 2000 rubles. for purchase in stores Figure.

First place

Location-aware ToDo
Prizes: certificate in the amount of 10,000 rubles. for purchase at Digital stores, a license to use UMI.CMS Business, a certificate for 3 months of using digital television, 3 certificates for annual domains in the zone.

Second place

Guitar Battle
Prizes: certificate in the amount of 5000 rubles. for purchase at Digital stores, a license to use UMI.CMS Business, a certificate for 3 months of using digital television, 3 certificates for annual domains in the zone.

Third place

JugglingOnCanvas
Prizes: certificate in the amount of 5000 rubles. for purchase in Digital stores, a license to use UMI.CMS Corporate, a certificate for 3 months of using digital television, 3 certificates for annual domains in the zone.

Partners and Sponsors

The event was made possible thanks to the support of Asus and Intel.
Tensor, D-Link, UMI Soft, Beeline, Trendclub.ru, CMS Magazine, IT-Event.ru, flance.ru, reg.ru, Web Development Studio by Mikhail Kechinov, Yar GTUG, Fazis, Student Union of Yaroslavl State University.

Organizers

HackDay Movement, Faculty of Informatics and Computer Engineering, Yaroslavl State University P. G. Demidova.

Contacts

Elena Votchennikova, HackDay Coordinator in Yaroslavl, +7 911 223 9665, yarhack@gmail.com