GT ACM

It’s that time of the year again! Yahoo! and GTACM are once again bringing you Hack Week – a week of great presentations, competition, and good clean geek fun. This year’s Hack Week will take place from March 9 – 13th; you can find a full listing of the planned events below. These events are also on our Google Calendar for your subscribing pleasure. Yahoo!’s official HackU page, which has details about the program, info from past events, and other cool hack stuff  is http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku.

Stay tuned here and via our twitter feed for updates.

Thursday, March 4

Pre-Hack U Event: Intro to Hack

The prequel to Hack Week! Specifically targeted at first time hackers, people who can’t make the kickoff event, and anyone searching for team members. Come hear what Hack Week is all about, meet fellow hack wizards, and hear from some of our past entrants – and winners! Come enjoy the food, listen a bit, and then hang out with other Hack Stars.

Location: Klaus 1116
Time: 6:00pm
Food: Dinner (Calzones!)
Giveaways: iPod Shuffle Raffle!

Tuesday, March 9

Hack U Kickoff

The official start of the week! Come hear what Hack Week is all about, see just how easy it is for you to make an entry that could win you amazing prices, and get your first taste of the great hack culture that will be here all week!

Location: Klaus Atrium
Time: 6:15pm
Food: Dinner (Moe’s)
Giveaways: Hack U t-shirts, Y! swag & Raffle prize

Wednesday, March 10

Event: Open Tech Lunch

Come hear about some cool APIs, technologies, frameworks, etc – all centered around open development culture! Also, see demos of how to use them in your hacks. It’s a great chance to learn from those who know it best. Update: Chris’s slides are here.
Location: CoC Third Floor (Follow the Arrows!)
Time: 11:30- 1PM
Food: Yes – lunch (BBQ)

Event: Office Hours + Informal Talks

Location: CoC Commons
Time: 1:30PM – 4PM
Schedule:
1:30- 2:30: How to Hosting / Joyent + PHP
2:30 – 3:30 : How to Javascript / YUI
3:30 – 4 : How to Webservice / YQL

Food: Lunch: Firehouse Subs

Event: Guest Lecture: Douglas Crockford: Javascript the Good Parts (part 2)

Come hear from the creator of JSON as he continues his discussion of some of the most common pitfalls in JavaScript, how to avoid them, and how to best take advantage of this powerful, pertinent, and prevalent language.

Location: Klaus 1116
Time: 6:15pm
Food: Dinner: Chick-Fil-A

Thursday, March 11

Event: Hadoop Talk

Want to get technical? Hadoop is a free framework for working with extremely large data-sets and distributed operations. It’s even been used in past hacks – come hear how you can get started making something that could scale like crazy!

Location: Van Leer Auditorium (W200)
Time: 11:30AM-12:30
Food: Lunch: Firehouse Subs

Event: Office Hours + Informal Talks

Location: CoC Commons
Time: 1PM – 4PM
Schedule:
1- 2: How to Hosting / Joyent + PHP
2- 3: How to Javascript / YUI
3- 4 : How to Webservice / YQL

Event: YUI / UED / Design

Location: Klaus 1116
Time: 6:15pm
Food: Dinner – Italian/Pasta
Giveaways: YDN T-shirts, stickers, swag

Friday, March 12

Event: Official 24 hour hacking kickoff

Let the Hacking begin! Ongoing talks, food, music, games, raffle prizes and fun throughout the day/night in central base camp area. “How to” breakout sessions will take place throughout the day/night!

Location: CoC 102 (room with tables) from 1PM on; add CoC 101 (social room) from 4PM on.
Time: 1PM Friday – 1PM Saturday
Schedule:
3 pm : How to Hosting / Joyent + PHP
5 pm : How to Javascript / YUI3
7 pm : How to Webservice / YQL
9 pm : How to Auth / OAuth
11 pm : How to App Platform / Open Social + YAP
1 am : How to Demo (and you show your stuff)
3 am : How to Juggle
5 am : How to Glow-In-The-Dark Frolf
6 am : How to Calesthetic
8 am – 12 pm : How to finish your hack (No talks)
Ongoing: Wii Rock Band, games, snacks, hacking
Food: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks (throughout), Breakfast, Lunch; including Pizza (Mellow Mushroom?), Quizno’s, Wingnuts…Sublime doughnuts, Einstein’s bagels
Giveaways: Hack U final T-shirts, Y! swag; Ongoing talks, Food, Music, Games, raffle prizes and Hacking throughout the day/night in central base camp area

Saturday, March 13

Event: Hack Demos, Judging and Awards

Time to show off your Hack for a chance to win Netbooks, Ipods, Headphones, Thinkgeek.com gift certificates and of course, the grand prize trip to the Open Hack Showdown in California.

Time: 1PM
Food: Lunch – Moe’s
Schedule:
Food 1PM-1:30
Presentations 1:30-4
Food: Lunch
Categories:
Hack for Good
Metro (Front page Apps)
Best Mobile
User Experience & Design
Hardware Hack
Student Organization Hack
Best Overall (1st, 2nd & 3rd)
Giveaways: Prizes