Round 1: JavaScript - June

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

FIRST, THE PRIZES (AND OTHER AWESOMENESS)

Winners of the JS hackathon will advance to the grand finale to battle it out with the best PHP, 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

Our first challenge goes out to the fast-growing JavaScript community. With expanding functionality like web workers and WebGL, browser scripting has never been more powerful, and server-side JavaScript is making a huge comeback. (Yes, a comeback: we remember Netscape Enterprise Server.) Whether you do front-end, back-end, or full-stack, if JavaScript runtimes are your thing, show our panel of judges what you can do. CoffeeScript, ClojureScript, and everything else that complies to JavaScript is welcome in the ring.

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

We are super stoked to announce the following judges for the JavaScript hackathon...

Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of CoffeeScript and Backbone.js, and part of the Interactive News team at the New York Times

David Nolen, JavaScript developer for the New York Times

David Newell, Organizer of the CoffeeScript Meetup

THE SHOUTOUTS

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

And of course to these other Meetups that joined forces to bring the tech community together: NYC Node JS (https://www.meetup.com/nodejs/), New York JavaScript (https://www.meetup.com/javascript-7/), NYC Backbone (https://www.meetup.com/NYCBackbone/), CoffeeScript New York (https://www.meetup.com/Coffee-Script-New-York/), 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/Ladies-Who-Code/), Ladies Who Code (https://www.meetup.com/Ladies-Who-Code/)