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Yahoo! Hack Day 2006

Hack Days are events hosted by Yahoo!—sometimes with other partners—in which participants are encouraged to create web applications in 24 hours ideally using one or more of Yahoo's APIs or open source libraries. They normally consist of a combination of structured talks and unstructured 'hacking' time, often run overnight and normally conclude with a hack demo session with prizes for the best hacks.

Yahoo! holds regular Hack Days internally for its staff, as well as occasional public Hack Days for the general public. The first internal Hack Day at Yahoo took place on December 8, 2005. The first public Hack Day took place between September 29-30th of 2006 at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, California and was followed by a performance by Beck.

The format of the Hack Day shares characteristics with several other types of event, including unconferences, MashPit, Foocamp and BarCamp.

1 University Hack Day
2 Hack Day London
3 HackDay India
4 External links
5 See also
6 Further reading

[edit] University Hack Day

Yahoo has spread their hack day idea to universities around the country. Hack U has been going on since 2006. That year Greg Schechter from UIUC won the national contest with his Slide Rule Widget. Check out the video of his winning presentation.

[edit] Hack Day London

Hack Day London was held in June 2007 at North London's Alexandra Palace. A joint event between backstage.bbc.co.uk and the Yahoo! Developer Network for several hundred developers and designers, it was hit by lightning on the Saturday morning and followed by a performance by The Rumble Strips.

[edit] HackDay India

Hackday India was held on October 5th and 6th,2007 in Bangalore . The first Hackday in India featured about 100 hackers who took to Yahoo! APIs to create something using them in 24 hours. In the end, there were 31 submitted hacks and each team or single hacker had his/her 90 seconds of fame presenting the hack on three massive screens to the whole assembled audience and the 7 judges to declare the results of the hackday india 2007.