Last Saturday, the Palm team descended on Atlanta to help U.s. WebDirections hosting a hackathon incredible one day called Amped!. Amped goal is to form a team, code an application to respond to one of several challenges, prizes, and of course have a ton of fun; all in a single day.And it was a day! prize won and fun was had by all.
Palm team showed instead, courtesy first Georgia Tech, at 7 p.m. surrounding engineering school to set space .This GTRI Conference Center was primarily to gather tables and spaces of sofa for people to hack away, more than one tonne of outlets. 8 H 30 participants began to arrive, breakfasting on coffee free and pastries in the lobby.
Most of the participants were students, but there were several experienced as members. Some people has come as a team and other teams formed it.Many people have shown, but a team from the University of Tennessee leads two hours early morning competition!
Each sponsor Amped had their own challenges.Palm feels very strongly about the cross-platform development, so we issued the following challenge: create a mobile application that works on webOS and at least another platform .we have given Award for most useful, most creative, direct conversion and the grand prize including the winner gets to come to New York for the development in November day webOS.
Designed, hacked and encoded, sometimes take breaks to munchies and breakfast teams throughout the day. Organizers thought at all; the height of the day hot even had a truck ice appear to give us some refreshments.I have not had such a sandwich ice years yummy.
To help the teams really Polish their applications, many of the speakers WebDirections United came to give training sessions and mentor teams who wanted to help.WebDirections had an incredible number of great speakers with a variety of talents, so teams were not help missing.
By 7 pm, the teams had been coding for over 10 hours of straight lines .it ' is when the judges started tables on tour and to ask questions. We were all amazed by the quality of applications.décider on winners would be difficult!
At 8 pm we are all gathered in the hall of the main session have some refreshments, relax and be entertained by our host, do a little dance in the River. (We're not kidding!)
Finally, it was time to announce the courageous gagnants.Les came Palm challenge should not be disappointed:
Honorable Mention: they team created an incredible demo which you can play tennis on the network both a webOS and an Android phone with terrain on a screen of third parties, a desktop computer.Although not as polished as some other applications, we wanted to give a special mention for the technical challenges incredible overcame.
More useful: the ever-present team set out to solve a simple problem but ennuyeux.Gestion birthday and Christmas wish lists.It is easy to set up a thread messaging and email accidentally the person receiving the gift.Help the registers of gifts, but they are not updated in real time.Omnipresent solve this with an attractive mobile application showing the present lists of your friends, with the ability to mark, off items purchased in real-time, so that other gift donors receive immediate updating.This definitely seems an application with a lot of potential.
More creative: stars hack team created a completely new way to enjoy sports.There two mobile and TV component which allow you to bet in real time on what each team will do for each jeu.Vous can play against your friends and compete for the prize in teams.It looks like lots of fun and one of the few that integrate a traditional TV device.
Better conversion: Ninja of team consisted of students from Georgia Tech who use a tool called WP Dir to contact colleagues étudiants.Ninja team created web-based mobile so you can get this essential information application on the road.
Grand Prize: NiteOwl has created a solution to a problem they had experienced earlier in the semaine.Ils had taken part in a closed restaurant local.lorsque restaurant, they wanted to find other restaurants time closing as location-based and how many people is already là.À hackathon, they built this application only; and it is that an application! NiteOwl is very similar, takes advantage of several web technologies, including custom fonts and runs on almost every mobile device known to man .Regardez these photos:
Each winner received a new printer HP and Palm before more, along with a gift certificate and winning the grand prize T-Shirt .the obtained all that, as well as a travel free in New York where they will be Polish up their application and show it on stage in the development in November day webOS.
Amped was successful incroyable.beaucoup large applications have been produced, and everyone learned something and did a lot of new amis.Il is an event that we need to do again!
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