Round 2: PHP - July

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

FIRST, THE PRIZES (AND OTHER AWESOMENESS)

Winners of the PHP hackathon will advance to the grand finale to battle it out with the best JavaScript, Ruby and Python 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

With 75% of the web’s servers running PHP, including the user facing portions of Wikipedia and Facebook, PHP doesn’t need to prove itself to anyone. It’s the can-do language of the web: it slices, it dices, it scales. The content-management category in PHP is so diverse and powerful it blurs the lines between programming and editing content. With the wide array of Drupal modules and Wordpress plugins, you can build in huge chunks of functionality before anybody writes a line of code. We’re inviting everyone in the thriving PHP ecosystem to come and show just what they can do with all those hammers.

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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[Photo via Peter B. (https://foursquare.com/badboyboyce)]

THE JUDGES

Beau Lebens - Code Wrangler at Automattic/WordPress

Ivan Kedrin - Organizer of the NYC PHP Meetup Group

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 PHP (https://www.meetup.com/nycphp/), 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/)