Not surprised, totally lost the meaning of hack, which didn't mean to make products for business, but to change their corporate way of being useful and to serve other purposes.
Hackfucking really!
Sevy, ex-geek, now not caring, only technology failures are funny
On Saturday, November 3, 2012, Amy Walsh walshamy89@gmail.com wrote:
Sponsored by
http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-Startup-Culture-BSC/events/86500722/
The hackathon will take place fromSaturday, Nov 17 at 9am - Sunday, Nov
18 8pm.
This hackathon is the best place to work, network and perhaps even meet
your future co-founding software engineer, designer, product guy, business geek, customer, employee or angel investor.
In the hacakthon you can either work on an existing or new project.
For startups it is the best place to see people working on apps and APIs
for your products.
Don't be afraid or shy. The hackathon is meant to be fun. We will build
interdisciplinary teams. You do not need to be a software engineer to participate.
There will be enterprise/consumer angel investors and VCs at the
hackathon. So it would a great environment to chitchat with investors in a relaxed atmosphere about your product/project; WesttechVentures + Wellington + Hasso Plattner Ventures + Rocket Internet + Catagonia + Tarent AG
There will be free food and drinks on both days. Please write us an
e-mail if you are vegetarian after buying a ticket in order to order vegetarian food also.
You can win an iPad for hacks on Paymill.
We will build interdisciplinary teams at the hackathon on the Saturday
morning. Each team will consists of software engineers, product guys, designers and business geeks. The software engineers will be coding, while the product guys work on the product details,the designers take over the design and the business geeks the business side of the project.
On Sunday evening each team will have 5 minutes to demo and pitch their
work + 5 minutes Q&A. The best 3 teams will win prizes.
Below are the list of topics:
Consumer
Social Photo Couponing/daily deal services Payments (web, mobile) Mobile Advertising Games Real Estate Education Finance Music & Sound Travel
Enterprise
Big data analytics Platform as a Service: PaaS
Schedule
Saturday
09:00:00 AM Reception + Registration
09:30:00 AM Introduction + Hackathon Agenda + Sponsor Pitches
10:00:00 AM Idea Pitches + Prices Annoucement
10:30:00 AM Team Building
11:00:00 AM Begin Hacking
01:00:00 PM Lunch (Free Food + Drinks)
02:00:00 PM Con