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September 22, 2006

More Details on Yahoo Hack Day

Michael Arrington

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I just got back from a lunchtime briefing at Yahoo about their open Hack Day next Friday, September 29.

The basics: Yahoo Hack Day is a roughly 24 hour event beginning on Friday, September 29. This is open to any developer who wants to participate, although there is only room for 500 total hackers and 100 total projects (request an invitation on the Hack Day site). People attending Hack day can camp out at Yahoo, either by pitching a tent on the lawn or sleeping inside one of the buildings (I’ll be camping out on the lawn).

Coding ends at around 2:30 on Saturday and then every team will be given a couple of minutes to demo their project to a group of judges. Small prizes will be given to the “winners,” although the real purpose of the event is to collaborate and share ideas, not to take home a physical prize. I’ll be emcee’ing the demos and awards.

There are two parties, one on Friday evening and one on Saturday evening after the event is over. The entertainment lined up for Friday night is going to be incredible, although a non disclosure agreement prohibits us from saying who it is. I can say with confidence, though, that everyone attending the event will be very, very happy they were there for Friday night’s party.

There will be a ton of press at the event.

For information, see the Hack Day main site and blog, and my original post announcing it. Chad Dickerson, who runs Yahoo’s developer network, also has a couple of posts up about Hack Day on his personal blog. The Yahoo UI blog has a post up today with additional information, including a schedule. Robert Scoble, who was also in the lunchtime briefing, wrote about it as well.

See you next Friday!

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  1. Startups.in/India

    September 22nd, 2006 at 3:50 pm

    Can we just join the party :)
    But that aside, I’m really excited to see the interesting projects thet get churned out from this event.

  2. kalygul mochoev

    September 22nd, 2006 at 4:02 pm

    Cooool man. I’ m seriously curious what types of projects wiil come out of there.
    wish I was there. Have a nice party anyway

  3. Dave McClure

    September 22nd, 2006 at 4:31 pm

    i’m psyched… 500 geeks at Yahoo for the weekend? w00t!

    should be a real blast ;)

    - dave mcclure
    http://500hats.typepad.com/

  4. Alex

    September 22nd, 2006 at 5:24 pm

    Haha. Awesome guys, good luck for the event and I trust we will hear plenty of coverage of everything that went on.

    Have a drink for me.

    :)

  5. Steve E

    September 22nd, 2006 at 6:05 pm

    Sounds awesome! Yahoo UK never do anything like this, might start petitioning them as it would be excellent to attend!

    Still think someone should mashup Yahoo Travel/Weather/News/Answers/Tech to produce the ultimate portal to give you what you need to plan and go on holiday!

  6. Otis Gospodnetic

    September 22nd, 2006 at 7:29 pm

    This is what I call Recruiting 2.0.

  7. NeoTechie

    September 22nd, 2006 at 8:03 pm

    Wow!

  8. Sarah

    September 22nd, 2006 at 10:10 pm

    Does anyone know who the judges are?

  9. Jianing

    September 22nd, 2006 at 11:03 pm

    Hey Michael, did you attend the Yahoo! internal hack day this time? IMO it was the best hack day ever and there were some really amazing hacks. I actually had a little hack myself that I tried to submit here, but seems your submit has been having some issues. :)

  10. Startups.in/India

    September 23rd, 2006 at 1:26 am

    Judges?
    Other than Michael Arrington ;-) , may be Jerry Yang, Chad Dickerson, Iain Lamb, Phu Hoang, Marco Boerries, Larry Tesler … or may be just the hackers and the spectators :)

  11. web hosting company

    September 23rd, 2006 at 1:44 am

    Good Luck for those who are going to participate and guys don’t forget to carry your own hardware, yahoo is not going to provide so carry your own laptop, PC, cellphone etc Please don’t forget to share your experience with us, enjoy and have fun.

  12. Vadakkan

    October 2nd, 2006 at 8:13 am

    Has someone compiled a list of hacks? I would love to see it.

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