Simon Willison on hackday

10 items tagged “hackday”

2010

They Write For You. I helped put together this visualisation of stories written by MPs for various newspapers at last Friday’s ’Hackers and Hacks" hack day.

# 2nd February 2010, 9:27 am / hackday, mps, newspapers, politics, projects, visualisations

2009

This shouldn’t be the image of Hack Day

I love hack days. I was working in the vicinity of Chad Dickerson when he organised the first internal Yahoo! Hack Day back in 2005, and I’ve since participated in hack day events at Yahoo!, Global Radio and the Guardian. I’ve also been to every one of Yahoo!’s Open Hack Day events in London. They’re fantastic, and the team that organises them should be applauded.

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10:22 pm / 19th October 2009 / conferences, events, hackday, hackgirls, taiwan, womenintechnology, yahoo

Hack Day tools for non-developers

We’re about to run our second internal hack day at the Guardian. The first was an enormous amount of fun and the second one looks set to be even more productive.

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2:23 pm / 28th July 2009 / freebase, google, google-maps, guardian, hackday, mapping, nondevelopers, openstreetmap, pipes, sketchup, tools, yahoopipes, computer-literacy

2008

Results from Hack Day at The Guardian. A full list of hacks from last week’s hack day.

# 19th November 2008, 9:57 am / hackday, the-guardian

Notes from Hack Day at The Guardian. Our first hack day was a ridiculous amount of fun. Matt’s write-up includes a 15 minute highlight video, which includes my 90 second presentation of my crowdsourcing SVG-powered parliamentary constituencies hack.

# 18th November 2008, 11:42 pm / hackday, hacks, matt-mcalister, the-guardian

Hack Day at the Guardian. Video of the demos from the first Hack Day at the Guardian. I presented a crowdsourcing app I used to collect annotations for an SVG map of the UK.

# 18th November 2008, 5:58 pm / guardian, hackday

Freebase Hack Day. I’m finding Freebase increasingly interesting at the moment, and their public hack day on the 8th November in San Francisco looks like it could be a lot of fun. They’ll be previewing Acre, a new server-side JavaScript application platform targeted at building Freebase powered applications. Hit “view source” at the bottom of the hack day site to see what an Acre app looks like.

# 24th October 2008, 12:06 am / acre, events, freebase, hackday, javascript, san-francisco

2007

I can’t believe it’s all over! Hack Day London rocked.

# 18th June 2007, 10:16 pm / hackday, hackdaylondon, tom-coates

A Hack for Europe! Signups are now open for Hack Day Europe, on June 16th and 17th. You need to apply for an invitation.

# 18th April 2007, 11:24 pm / bbc, bbcbackstage, hackday, tom-coates, yahoo

Hack Day 2007—get your diaries out. Yahoo! UK and the BBC are hosting a public hack day on the weekend of June 16th/17th at Alexandra Palace, complete with a concert from a “top secret” band. The US hack day surprise performance was Beck.

# 29th March 2007, 2:24 pm / bbc, hackday, yahoo

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