Title: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on July 07, 2011, 11:54:29 AM Hi, we are organizing this fun event for programmers/hackers/other likeminded people. The idea is to collect people to work in the same space with bitcoin related projects.
Homepage: http://bitcoin-hackathon.com/ Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124561460966301 What: Programming and hacking the whole weekend. A couple of presentations and lighting talks. Take part in the programming competition for fun, and receive prizes and fame. Theme: Bitcoin, although participants can also work on anything else they are interested in that is somehow related to payments. Enroll: The event is free of charge, but please enroll by attending this facebook event or if you don’t like facebook, use this form: http://bitcoin-hackathon.com/enroll.html Program: Friday 2.9 18:00 Start the event 18:15 Form teams and enroll in the competition 18:45 Teams present their projects and what they are going to do during the weekend (5-10 minutes each team) 19:15 Hacking begins / presentations for the interested (Programming through the night is possible) Saturday 3.9 09:00 Doors open Hacking, with refreshments and food, lightning talks at some point (Programming through the night is possible) Sunday 4.9 09:00 Doors open Programming 15:00 Teams present what they have accomplished 16:00 Jury awards the winners 17:00 Party! Loose competition rules: 1. Form a team, and decide project you are going to work on 2. Present your project to the jury at the start of the event 3. Explain and demo what you have accomplished at the end of the event Note that you can work on whatever you want, be it open source project, your new startup or anything else. Sponsors: Aalto Entrepreneurship Society Kangas Bros. Innovations If you want to sponsor this event, contact jukka.valimaa@gmail.com / +358 50 312 2496 Also if you want to sponsor with bitcoin, payment address is 17HDg4NDQQxkWrXDrkHiNE91S4Udat2kcd If you have an idea/want to keep a presentation/want to sponsor the event, contact me :) Title: Re: Bitcoin Hackathon (event), 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: BitcoinPorn on July 07, 2011, 12:39:59 PM Love this, focused energy.
Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on July 20, 2011, 08:46:14 AM I added some details of the event. I will offer pizza for the first international participant (who doesn't come from Finland) :D
At least Sirius (http://sirius-m.users.sourceforge.net/), 2nd bitcoin core developer after Satoshi, will be attending the event. I don't know if he is working on bitcoin core any longer... Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: divergenta on July 20, 2011, 12:20:47 PM It seems really interesting. I'm from Sweden though so I have to get everything to work with my studies and so on but I might be able to attend. :)
Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on July 21, 2011, 08:48:46 AM It seems really interesting. I'm from Sweden though so I have to get everything to work with my studies and so on but I might be able to attend. :) Great :) Btw, there should be enough space for everyone: http://dev.aaltovg.com/2011/07/avg-spatial-development-2/ The space is under renovation currently, after the renovation it should be very suitable for this kind of event. Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on July 27, 2011, 02:11:37 PM A local DVD shop has promised to sponsor some competition prizes in form of cult classic hacker movies. I hope this, attracts more competitors! :D
And on related note, thanks to first bitcoin sponsor (http://blockexplorer.com/address/17HDg4NDQQxkWrXDrkHiNE91S4Udat2kcd) Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on August 04, 2011, 11:50:56 AM OK, bumping this again, we created poster for the event: http://bitcoin-hackathon.com/poster.pdf
If you want to do some good, print the poster out and put it somewhere people can see it! :) Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on August 07, 2011, 02:25:45 PM I'm going to work on django-bitcoin (https://github.com/kangasbros/django-bitcoin) and simple amazon mechanical turk clone (using django). If anyone wants to join me, just send me a message :) My skills are on the backend, so CSS/front-end guy would be optimal, maybe with a little copywriting/marketing skills.
Also other participants are free to discuss ideas for the weekend in this thread :) Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on August 18, 2011, 08:01:52 AM I'm happy to inform that Nokia's IdeasProject (http://www.ideasproject.com/) will be sponsoring Bitcoin Hackathon.
If you implement any of the ideas listen on the IdeasProject's page on the Hackathon, you will receive a free Nokia Phone, any current or to-be-released model. Just tell what IdeasProject idea are you implementing at the start of the event. Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: riikka on August 18, 2011, 08:33:40 PM I will come there, most probably! kangasbros, are you participating in Summer of Startups?
Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on August 19, 2011, 07:54:43 AM kangasbros, are you participating in Summer of Startups? I have not participated in Summer of Startups myself, but I have been attending much Aalto Entrepreneurship Society events and also organized one tech event myself (DjangoCon Finland) :) And also being self-employed one-man-business, I have been doing some coding at Aalto Venture Garage now and then. Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on September 01, 2011, 01:18:44 PM Location change: Because the renovation at Aalto Venture Garage is heavily delayed, we have to keep the hackathon at Desing Factory, which is right next to the Aalto Venture Garage (Betonimiehenkuja 5).
Also I'm happy to announce that Mt. Gox will be sponsoring the hackathon. I guess everybody here knows about Mt. Gox, the biggest bitcoin exchange in the world :) Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on September 04, 2011, 04:57:27 PM The Hackathon is over, thanks to everyone who participated! We had very great participating ideas, including:
- bitcoin offline wallet (winner #1) - bountychest.com bounty hunting web site, earn bitcoins through bounties - bitcoin powered web site for freelance translators + django-bitcoin module (winner #2) - sms gateway to buy bitcoins - put bitcoins to a nfc tag with android wallet - rfid tag powered children's storybook + nfc mobile app (nokia's ideasproject winner) Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: BitcoinPorn on September 06, 2011, 03:35:08 AM "- rfid tag powered children's storybook + nfc mobile app (nokia's ideasproject winner)"
That is awesome. Damn, seemed like a cool ass event. I was going to ask to post pictures and more links from the even, but the Facebook page seems to have a lot of stuff. Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: carbonpenguin on September 08, 2011, 01:11:07 AM I'm going to work on django-bitcoin (https://github.com/kangasbros/django-bitcoin) and simple amazon mechanical turk clone (using django). If anyone wants to join me, just send me a message :) My skills are on the backend, so CSS/front-end guy would be optimal, maybe with a little copywriting/marketing skills. Also other participants are free to discuss ideas for the weekend in this thread :) Has anything come of the mTurk clone project? Title: Re: Event: Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Aalto Venture Garage, Finland Post by: kangasbros on September 08, 2011, 05:08:48 PM I'm going to work on django-bitcoin (https://github.com/kangasbros/django-bitcoin) and simple amazon mechanical turk clone (using django). If anyone wants to join me, just send me a message :) My skills are on the backend, so CSS/front-end guy would be optimal, maybe with a little copywriting/marketing skills. Also other participants are free to discuss ideas for the weekend in this thread :) Has anything come of the mTurk clone project? Actually I minimised/changed the project pretty heavily, and it turned out to be that connects freelance translators and those who want translations to be done. Stay tuned :) Also django-bitcoin is pretty much usable now, so if you want to create your marketplace/escrowservice/bitcoin-powered bittorrent site/whatever, you can do it more easily now! :D |