The Dutch Android User Group

"V Hack Android" Netherlands

September 14, 2012 · 7:00 PM
Bouncespace (former booking.com building)

Android 5 years!

On November 5th Android will celebrate its 5th birthday. To celebrate this Google developer- and technology user group leaders in Europe have announced the "V Hack Android" hackathon (pronounced "We Hack Android". If you would like to keep up to date circle their "V Hack Android" Google+ page. While you're at it circle our event's Google+ page as well ;-).

"V Hack Android" Dutch edition

We are happy to announce that together with with the Google Developer Group Netherlands and Appsterdam.rs we will organize the Dutch edition of this international hackathon where teams of exactly 3 people (2 Android developers and 1 UI/UX expert) will work on a new Android app in a to-be-announced theme.

Hackathon weekend

The "V Hack Android" Netherlands hackathon will be held in the weekend of Friday 14th - Sunday 16th of September.

Preliminary schedule (subject to change)

Friday

19:00 - 21:30 Opening scrum with drinks & snacks

Saturday

10:00 Opening hackathon day 1

13:00 Lunch

18:00 Dinner

22:00 End

Sunday

10:00 Opening hackathon day 2

13:00 Lunch

16:00 Code freeze (Main area open to public / press)

16:30 Demo's and votes

17:30 Announcement of winners / results

18:30 End

The winning Dutch team will be chosen on Sunday. After this weekend the winning team can request support of the whole Dutch Android community to improve their app!

Win a trip to the final hackathon in London

The winning Dutch team will win a trip to the final hackathon in London, to be held in the weekend of Friday 26th - Sunday 28th of October, right after droidcon London. There the teams from various countries will continue to polish and improve their apps from which one winning team will finally be chosen. Again, support from the whole Dutch community is allowed, so let's help the winning team where we can!

Contend or attend

Please RSVP yes if you are planning on contending or simply want to attend the kick-off or help us out during the weekend. If you are contending also send us an e-mail at [masked] introducing your team -- including a team name and a tagline -- and we'll update this page with team info. If you are an independent Android developer or UI/UX expert and would like to participate please let us know via [masked] as well. We can introduce you to others who are planning to participate solo and build teams from that introduction. If you have any questions or comments on this event don't hesitate to contact one of the organizers or send us an e-mail at [masked].

Help spread the word

If you yourself are not interested, but know a good (team of) Android expert(s), born for challenges like this please make them aware of this event by sharing this event's meetup page.

Help us find sponsors

The entree fee of €50,- is purely to cover the costs for the location and food & drinks during this 3-day event. The first prize is sending the winning team to London. To finance this prize we need to attract some sponsors. If your company would like to sponsor this event send an e-mail to Wiebe and he can send your company some more information on the various sponsoring possibilities.

Parking & public transportation info

If you are coming by car you can drive by the BounceSpace building on the Weteringschans 28 and drop off your stuff (if you have a lot). Unfortunately no parking spaces are available at the BounceSpace building. Some parking suggestions are described here. If you come with public transportation you can use 9292.nl to plan your trip.

We hope to welcome a lot of teams on the Dutch version of the "V Hack Android" hackathon in September!

Kind regards,

Wiebe, Dennis, Arno, Hilbrand and Johan.

Team info

Team "Wasabi"

Hugo Visser (developer)
Zenilja (developer)
Gregor Doornbosch (designer)

Team "Apps R Us"

Raul Portales (developer)
Ronald van der Lingen (developer)
Ron Jones (designer)

Lone gunners...

In other words, people still looking for a team...

Iulia Stana (developer)
Hans van der Scheer (developer)
Fabio Tiriticco (developer)
Daan van Berkel(developer)
Arno den Hond (developer)
Dennis Geurts (developer)

Local Gold Sponsors

Egeniq
Itude mobile
Luminis

Global Silver Sponsors

Alcatel One Touch
Sony Internet TV powered by Google TV

Local Silver Sponsors

droidconNL
VX Company

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Hugo Visser

Great atmosphere, lot's of fun! Next time we need multiple spotify playlists ;)

0 · September 20
Dennis Geurts

it was great!!!

0 · September 18
Zenilja

The atmosphere was very relaxed, had a lot of fun

0 · September 18
Daan van Berkel

It was a very nice event with a vibrant ambiance and interesting and skilled community members present.

0 · September 17
Wiebe Elsinga

Good to be part of the hackathon. Had a awesome time.

0 · September 17
Johan Pelgrim

I had a great time. Thanks to all the teams for participating. Thanks to everybody else for helping out!

0 · September 17