Weekend Hack Fest 2010 :: The Next big thing!
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:22 am
Reading about Yahoo's 24 hour Hack Fest May 2009 in London got me thinking. Why not arrange our own Hack Fest well in advance so all interested Developers can take part? Nothing too crazy, just a Friday night until Sunday night - with a bit of sleep and food in between of course. The schedule would be simple; start off easy Friday night with the planning of what we are going to develop and build with details of who is doing which part; then Saturday morning let the hacking begin. In this short space of time a small project is definitely achievable with a launch on Sunday night of the project's phase. If the Open Source project gets popular, future phases and/or weekend hack fests could be arranged accordingly - you never know the next Twitter could be mashed together.
You may be thinking: who can take part? Am I skilled enough? All good and important questions. To take part you would not have to be an expert in PHP, Ruby, Rails, Zend Framework, MySQL, CSS, xhtml, jQuery, Javascript, OO/OOP...the list can go on. However, passion and dedication is a definite requirement! This can be a good place for you to learn and become an expert - maybe not overnight, but definitely on the fast track to becoming one.
My blog article with some comments already, feel free to add accordinly
http://www.jaoudestudios.com/blog/details/id/8
Resource: Linux Format Magazine August 09, p14
You may be thinking: who can take part? Am I skilled enough? All good and important questions. To take part you would not have to be an expert in PHP, Ruby, Rails, Zend Framework, MySQL, CSS, xhtml, jQuery, Javascript, OO/OOP...the list can go on. However, passion and dedication is a definite requirement! This can be a good place for you to learn and become an expert - maybe not overnight, but definitely on the fast track to becoming one.
My blog article with some comments already, feel free to add accordinly
http://www.jaoudestudios.com/blog/details/id/8
Resource: Linux Format Magazine August 09, p14