Yahoo Hackday

Just read about the hack day on Greg Narain’s Blog:

Yahoo! Open Hack Day 2006
Location: Yahoo! Headquarters
Start Date: Friday, September 29, 5pm
End Date: Saturday, September 30, 6pm
http://hackday.org

Essentially, Open Hack Day is an opportunity for developers, mashers and interested spectators to jump in and have a chance to work on their own hacks using the extensive Yahoo! APIs as well as their own creative secret sauce. Expect 100 or more Yahoos to be on campus wearing special t-shirts or hats that guide you to their expertise.

The event is structured as a coding/camping event – taking its roots from Bar Camp and Foo Camp. There will be great food, lots of drinks, and “unbelievably awesome entertainment” – read a secret band that fits the groove of the whole hack culture.

There’s 3 simple rules for participation:

1. Build something that can be taken from idea to working prototype in one day
2. At the end of the day, we will celebrate what you’ve done on Hack Day with demos of hacks and awards for the coolest ones. “Judging is just the respect of your peers,” says Brad Horowitz, VP of Product Strategy.
3. Do your demo FAST! (under two minutes)

Read the whole post here.