HackDay # 2 in St. Petersburg: 26 IT projects over the weekend!

    imageThe event, a new format for Russia, this time brought together more than 300 people from Moscow, Yaroslavl and St. Petersburg. HackDay2's

    goal was to develop IT projects from scratch to prototypes over the weekend. Work began on Saturday morning and ended with a demofest on Sunday evening - presenting projects developed by participants in two days. In total, more than 70 projects were announced , of which 26 reached the Demofest and were presented to the public. (At the HackDay last, there were only 11 projects at the Demofest !) The venue was provided by SPbSU ITMO . The event was supported by Yahoo! , EMC Corporation , Marva ,

    DevExperts , Yota , McHost, and Sun Microsystems . Thank you so much for that!

    imageAfter the demofest, one questionnaire was issued for each project. It was necessary to mark in it which projects the participants liked the most. According to the results of this vote, an award was organized. We presented various useful things: a carob coffee maker, McHost hosting and domain names in the .ru zone, a wireless keyboard with a mouse, headphones, gifts from Sun Microsystems, t-shirts with the event logo. Now about those who won.

    First place. Free WiFi Finder .
    An Android app that allows you to find free WiFi hotspots.

    Second place. Galois Projects Wiki(online math reference with smart search) and the game MercuryDrops (for Android).

    Third place. Project Travel Lights .
    Service for travel planning.

    The MLG consulting law firm nominated the following projects as a separate line :

    For a business approach - ZenBiz .
    A simple and convenient program for preparing tax documents.

    For scale - IT portfolio .
    Service for creating home pages for users working in the field of IT, with the support of project management elements.

    For development potential - Travel lights .
    Travel planning service.

    For the business approach - A visualization system for premises using Flash technology.

    These projects received 15 hours of legal advice from MLG consulting .

    Demo-festival winning projects: video 1 , video 2 .

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    As part of HackDay2, 9 master classes were held. Anton Volnukhin (Yandex) held a master class on the Yandex.Blog API, Gleb Kaplun gave a lecture on technological entrepreneurship, Sergey Sec (MLG Consulting) held a master class on copyright. There were master classes in JavaScript, JavaFX, SQL injection, iPhone, MAEMO and content management. All presentations have already been posted.

    The format attracts new people, which means that it lives, and we can hope for new projects and startups that will emerge at such events. The participants made many interesting projects. Therefore, during the voting it was very difficult for me personally to give preference to only a few of them, I would like to note about a third.

    imageMikhail Kechinov (one of the organizers): “I liked a wide variety of projects and the fact that many people did not focus on monetization - they did projects for the soul and self-development, and not in order to quickly sell the stake to the investor. Of course, there were projects that can earn money - this is also good. I am glad that more than two dozen projects reached the end of the event. ”

    The next HackDay we plan to spend on a smaller scale and thematic. A similar large-scale one will be held around May.

    We are interested in spreading the movement throughout Russia and the CIS and are ready to share experience and best practices.

    I wish success to all the projects developed at the event!
    We look forward to seeing you at the next HackDay!

    * The author of the first two photos - Vlad Bilyk, the third -akamenyar .

    Update
    Added a link to the speeches of the representatives of the winning projects at the Demofest: video 1 , video 2 .

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