South Florida PHP User Group (SoFloPHP)

SoFloPHP Hack-a-thon Q2-2013

April 13 · 8:00 AM
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Note: This 12 hour event is FREE, but you must register at http://soflophphackq22013.eventbrite.com

Also, please go to https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/soflophp-hack-a-thon-q2-2013 to start building your team and/or project.

This event is open to ALL South Florida core and front-end devs. We also welcome other groups to come join us from Wordpress, Drupal. The more the merrier.

Developers, this is a great way for beginning developers (even students) to learn the ropes, as well as a way for advanced developers to enhance their skills while creating apps and mashups using various APIs or maybe even from scratch without using an API.

At the end of the day, teams and/or individuals get to present their work to a panel of judges and win kickass prizes.

There will also be raffles throughout the day for T-shirts and other items.

If you are a company and want to sponsor, and/or allow developers to create apps using your API, please contact us.

This meetup will be altered to be more updated as each date gets closer. But basically we are thinking:

Schedule

Day 1
- 8:00am - 9:00am Registration/Breakfast
- 9:00am - 9:30am Intro and API Workshops
- 9:30am - 12:30pm Hack
- 12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
- 1:30pm - 6:00pm Hack
- 6:00pm Submission Deadline
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm Demo
- 7:00pm - 7:15pm Judging
- 7:15pm - 7:30pm Awards
- Snacks and coffee/soda/water available throughout the day
List of APIs (to help get the creative juices flowing)
- Plantronics
- Mashery
- Apigee
- Twilio
- SendGrid
- Foursquare
- Meetup
- Facebook
- Skype
- Salesforce
- and more!

NOTE: Please do not be limited by the list above. There are many APIs out there.

Prizes!

Overall 1st place
- Raspberry Pi (Educational Bundle)
Overall 2nd place
- One year of free hosting at ServerGrove!
Best use of Plantronics API as part of a mashup. (up to team of 4)
- Game Con 780 http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/gamecom-780
- Calisto 620 http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/calisto-600#
- Voyager Legend UC http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/voyager-legend-uc
- Yes, all 3!!!

Come and enjoy!

Sponsors for this event:

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Antonio Ciuccolini

I really enjoy this day, it was my first Hack-a-thon.
Great opportunity to meet all of you!
Thanks Adam for you hard work doing this!
See you next time!

0 · April 18
Patrick Alexander

Meet Up was great, Very Informative and great learning experience. Way exceeded my expectations. Everything was on point. Kudos to Adam on a job well done!
ps. My Favorite Personal Quote "The Mind Is A Powerful Tool"

0 · April 18
Nicky Beltran

I thought it was informative for a beginner. I picked up a few new terms, some new websites and met some nice people.

0 · April 17
Boris Polania

We had an excellent and challenging time at the Hackathon, it's go to know that more of these are coming. Thanks to Adam for being such a great host and Ricardo from Plantronics for his patience with us hackers. See you in the next one!!!

1 · April 14
Terrence

Adam Culp brought together a talented group if coders and designers in a great space, and creativity happened. And Ricardo DeAndrade of Plantronics supplied some great toys (along with expertise in their SDK), and helped me to think about headsets in a whole new way. Thus, the inaugural SoFlaPHP Miami Hack-a-thon was a marvelous way to spend a Saturday, and a productive opportunity to meet talented coders, expert evangelists, and new technologies.

1 · April 14
James Fuller

family scheduling conflict

0 · April 12
Lee Thornton

can't make it sorry

0 · April 12
Hector

Is there parking nearby for the event?

0 · April 12
- Adam Culp
  
  Yes, there is parking in the building and/or in the open lot next door. Remember to bring $5 for parking, no matter which place you park in.
  
  0 · April 12
Kristina

My laptop just revolted against me. Is it still worth coming just to sit on the sidelines? I've never been to a hack-a-thon!

1 · April 12
- Adam Culp
  
  Sure, you can do pair programming with someone who has a laptop. (love pair programming)
  
  1 · April 12
Skywalker

Hi, everyone. Is there any similar group near West Palm Beach?

0 · March 22
Doug Williamson

Has anyone seen my TI-30?

0 · March 21
Lauren Still

Hey I am super new to PHP. I have done a bit of python dev work, but otherwise very green.

Let me know if your group can take on someone like me.

1 · March 20
- Adam Culp
  
  All levels are welcome. A hack-a-thon is an ideal way to get started. Make sure to join a team where you can help out, but with a senior person to help you learn. ;)
  
  0 · March 20
Antonio Ciuccolini

Amaziiiing

1 · March 12
Jake A. Smith

Looking forward to a fun day :)

1 · March 8
Gadi Hus

Adam: Since you need a place for this meetup, i will be happy to use the conference room in our data center facility for this meetup. let me know.....

0 · February 27
Jose Garcia

Do we know the location yet?

0 · February 23
- Adam Culp
  
  Giving more people a chance to register before I decide between Miami or Boca. Will depend heavily on where most registrations come from.
  
  0 · February 23
Lee Thornton

This says api hackday, does that mean we are limited to an api?

0 · February 22
- Adam Culp
  
  No, not limited to APIs. I am going to slightly change the event soon to provide more details.
  
  0 · February 22
Lee Thornton

Heck yeah (again)

0 · February 16
Lee Thornton

I'm going to open my spot up to someone else for now, I'm not sure if I will be able to attend due to some physical issues. I'm going to have to think about a little bit.

0 · February 16
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- Adam Culp
  
  If I can help in any way let me know.
  
  0 · February 16
- Lee Thornton
  
  Thanks, I just feel like I will be a bummer with the bad wrist and all. I have a strange setup to take the workload off my right wrist and I will look like i am trying to fly an alien spaceship or something. Plus dragon naturally speaking does not work so well with surrounding noise. I will give it some thought and see what i can come up with.
  
  0 · February 16
- Adam Culp
  
  For this first event I am changing the event to 12 hours, and FREE
  
  0 · February 16
- Lee Thornton
  
  Cool, 12 hours is much better for me, I will rsvp again.
  
  0 · February 16
Jeffrey Roberts

woot!

0 · February 14
Lee Thornton

Heck yeah!

0 · February 14