Meteor Global Distributed Hackathon

IMPORTANT: to participate in the hackathon you also need to register here: http://info.meteor.com/2015-hackathon (you can register before having an idea or team). Please also RSVP for this meetup so we can plan space, food & beer accordingly.

If you were with us on Meteor Day last year, you remember the excitement as we celebrated the release of Meteor 1.0. I'm thrilled to tell you that we’re planning on bringing the worldwide community together again this fall for a global distributed hackathon. This distributed hackathon, taking place over the weekend of October 10th and 11th, will have chapters working out of our meetups all around the world, but you're also free to work from home or your favorite coffee shop with other developers from anywhere in the world.

It'll be a great chance to work with fellow Meteorites, share awesome apps, and communicate with other meetup groups about Meteor. Whether you're an experienced Meteor developer or just looking to get started, we hope you can join us.

If you want to participate but haven't had any luck finding a teammate yet, tweet your idea with #meteorteammate.

Categories and Prizes

Prizes will be awarded for the following categories: - Top Overall Submission - Top Five Overall Submissions - Most Innovative Collaborative App

• Best Meteor and IoT Submission

• Best Game

• Best App with Less than 100 Lines of JavaScript, maximum 80 characters/line

Keep checking back here in the coming days and weeks as we unveil more about our cool prizes!

Rules

1. All applications must be built using Meteor.

2. All apps must be completed within a 24 hour time period during the weekend of October 10th and 11th.

3. Teams can consist of 1-4 people.

4. You may code before the hackathon begins only if you make that code usefully available as a package for all to use before the hackathon weekend begins. (No shenanigans here, e.g. don't make a package that is deliberately designed to only be useful for your app)

5. Participants own the code, but we reserve the right to use a likeness of the app in promotional materials.

6. Submissions to be considered for prizes must include the following:

A github repo with app code
A demo video not to exceed 1:30
A list of packages used to create the app

7. Apps will be judged shortly after the weekend of October 10th-11th by a team of judges. 8. If you'd like to participate in the Meteor Global Distributed Hackathon, please complete the registration form (http://info.meteor.com/2015-hackathon) by October 2, 2015.

If you're looking for a team comment here and we'll help you find one.

Start & end times

The hackathon lasts 24 hours, and will will be starting at 11AM on Saturday. We'll talk about longer hours and getting together on Sunday too depending on how many people want to do that.

Food & beer

Subvisual (http://subvisual.co) and Cesium (http://www.cesium.di.uminho.pt/) will sponsor a Coffee Break during the afternoon, as well as dinner