Round 3: Python & Ruby - August

Due to limited capacity, please only RSVP if you are comfortable competing in Ruby or Python and are ready to throwdown.

FIRST, THE PRIZES (AND OTHER AWESOMENESS)

Winners of the Ruby & Python hackathon will advance to the grand finale to battle it out with the best JavaScript and PHP hackers in NYC. Prizes will be given for best overall hack, and most supporting startups are also offering awards for best use of their company's API. Hacker movie marathon! We'll screen movies back-to-back in part of the space, for those of you who code better with a dose of entertainment. The hackathon will culminate in beers on the Meetup HQ roofdeck. And remember, the winner of the entire tournament will be awarded a demo spot at the NY Tech Meetup!

Read on for all the details! See you soon...

THE CHALLENGE

Google’s first web crawler was written in Python, and GitHub upended the open source world using Ruby. Both languages have spawned innovative frameworks that help you build applications not just quickly, but cleanly, and definitively raised the the bar for web development. Their meetup communities for these languages are noteworthy for not just for bringing together experienced programmers, but reaching to the beginners who will be tomorrow’s experienced programmers. In this competition we invite Ruby and Python coders to come and build things together—if not on the same teams, at least on the same room.

Hack on your most far fetched ideas with like-minded engineers, then enjoy drinks on the roof of Meetup HQ while the judges deliberate. You might win a wonderful prize and the chance to come back and compete in the grand finale, and you will definitely score some free food, drinks, and good company.

THE SCHEDULE

9am Doors, un-groggify-ing, chow

9:30 API demos

10-9 Hacking

1pm Chow

6pm More chow and beers

9-10pm Hack presentations

10-11 Rooftop drinks + winner announcements

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THE SHOUTOUTS

Big shout out goes to Meetup HQ's kickass partners Etsy, Twilio,Tumblr, Mashery, Ordr.in, SendGrid and the NY Tech Meetup!

And of course to these other Meetups that joined forces to bring the tech community together: NYC Ruby Women (https://www.meetup.com/NYC-Ruby-Women/), Django NYC (http://www.djangonyc.org/), NYC on Rails (https://www.meetup.com/nyc-on-rails/), NYC.rb (https://www.meetup.com/NYC-rb/), NYC Web Performance (http://www.nywebperformance.org/), Queens Tech (https://www.meetup.com/queens-tech/), CTO School (http://meetup.ctoschool.org/), NYC Tech Talks (https://www.meetup.com/NYC-Tech-Talks/), Ladies Who Code (https://www.meetup.com/Ladies-Who-Code/)