2. • YDN is the Developer Relations team at Yahoo!
• We engage developers around the world with
Yahoo! Open Technologies and APIs
We Are Here:
http://developer.yahoo.com/
@ydn
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4. Dundee Uni Hacks are Unique
2011 Winners
http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/post
s/2011/04/all-aboard-for-dundee-hacku-vi/
Class of 2010
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5. We’ve been doing these for a while..
Class of 2009
Class of 2007
2006 Winners
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10. Scratch your own itch!
• Every good work of
software starts by
scratching a
developer’s personal
itch.
• To solve an
interesting
problem, start by
finding a problem
that’s interesting to
you.
The Cathedral and
the Bazaar, Eric
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11. Hackday Ingredients
• Developers & Designers
• Wifi, Food, Shelter
• Data, Development Framework(s), UI
• Y! building blocks at developer.yahoo.com
• Creativity
• Mash-ups and visualizations of data
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16. What is your challenge?
• Get into teams of 2 or 3 people
• Register for our event community by 8th March
• Come up with your idea
• Talk to Andy
• Create a working application
• Register your app by 15th March
• Present your hack on Friday 30th March
• Win prizes, drink beer…
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17. How we judge the hacks
• Working Prototype
• Solves a real problem
• Great User Experience
• Uses data or technology in a unique and
interesting way
• Uses technology or data from Yahoo!
• X-factor!
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Internal Hacks at Yahoo! Born of Internal program in 2005 in US, which expanded rapidly across the world.. Open hack born from that,..,2005 Internal2006 Open Hack SNV