hack u intro

HackUa.k.a: Serious Awesome

in 24 hours or less

You Hack

You Present

We dress funny(seriously, who is judging whom?)

You Win Prizes!(First prize: Photos with us!)

Do we seem like we have a plan?

What’s the plan?

• 2 days of talks

• 24 hours of hacking

• Free food, snacks, drinks, etc

• Smart people to help you... if they can’t, we will.

What’s the plan?

What’s the plan?

You can sleep when you’re dead

or on Friday

What’s the plan?

or really, whenever you want.

Who Rules? We Rules!(Gimme a break... we made this really late at night.)

The Rules

Up to 4 people on a team

The Rules

24 hours MAX

The Rules

!registered == !presenting

The Rules

For the non-geeks, that loosely translates to: “If you’re not registered, you’re not presenting”

What is a

Hacker?

|-|4xx0|2?Hacker?

Hacker?

Probably not a hacker...

Hacker?

totally a bunch of hackers!

Dreamer + Coder

CoderDreamer

Hacker

Hacker?

Hacker?

A Hack is:

A Good Idea Brought To Life

Hacker?

A HackU hack is:

Any Idea Brought To Life

You Can:

AutomateSomething

BuildFix

RevolutionizeSomethingSomethingSomething

Hacker?

Hacker?

If All Else Fails...

Hacker?

Do Something Silly

Show it off!

Demo Time

(even if it’s not done)

Demo Time

You have 90 seconds

Demo Time

Problem Live Demo Details

15 seconds 60 seconds 15 seconds

or something like that

You have 90 seconds

NO

Demo Time

POWER

Demo Time

POINT

Demo Time

Demo Time

Problem Live Demo Details

15 seconds 60 seconds 15 seconds

or something like that

You have 90 seconds

Have a Plan B(you know, cuz sometimes computers suck)

Demo Time

but most of all...

Impress Us

Demo Time

Resources

Resources

Yahoo! Can Help• Yahoo! free and open source projects

• YUI

• YQL

• tons of APIs:

Flickr, Answers, del.icio.us, Fantasy Sports, Fire Eagle, GeoPlanet, Placefinder, Placemaker …

• developer.yahoo.com

Resources

Other Sites• github.com/codepo8/hackday-toolbox

• wait-till-i.com

• isithackday.com/hacks

• gist.github.com/ydn

• developer.yahoo.com/hacku/pasthacks.html

• talks.php.net/show/hacku

• flickr.com/search/?q=hacku

Resources

All done!• Run your ideas by us if you want

• Register your hack:

developer.yahoo.com/hacku/register

• Hack talk tomorrow at 6pm

• Hacking starts Thursday at 5pm

• Full Schedule:

developer.yahoo.com/hacku/uiuc.html