IBM Hack Day
Like Yahoo, IBM is organizing a Hack Day. I wonder if this event will be a open hack day or it will be closed to IBM’ers. It will be nice to hack some of the IBM/Rational tools!
You could find more information about this event at Kellypuffs blog.
Updated: this event will be held the week of Dec 11-15 and it’s an internal hack day.
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November 5th, 2006 at 12:17 am
Thanks for spreading the word!
IBM held our first Hack Day last summer, a spur-of-the-moment activity generated by my post about Yahoo!’s Hack Day on my internal blog. In two weeks, we threw together a 1/2 day event with * 57 entries * 54 unique teams (some teams had multiple submissions) * 64 unique IBMers participating (some had multiple entries)* Categories: 37 Programming, 16 Ideas, 4 Design
As we figure out where to go with this, it would be great to have an Open Hack Day event with participants outside of IBM, and that’s one of the options being considered. But my guess is that for December’s effort (jeez, that’s only a few weeks away) it will probably be an internal effort.
December 6th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Ferran, it is great for us IBMers to know that there is customer awareness of our Hack Day!
Regarding next week’s hack day, please, do let us know any hacking ideas that you have: I bet that there will be hackers looking for projects (e.g. me :-)), and anything you suggest can ring someone’s bell.
And we can even take this one step further. Instead of the solo-hacking I did for the firts edition, I’m trying to assemble an IBM Barcelona team for next week; it will be hard, because year end is never easy, but I’ll try to bug some friends. Can we try to work together on this? Can we try to do a proof of concept of having customer involvement in ibm’s hack day? It won’t be easy to arrange, since we don’t have a lot of time, but I think that it is worth trying.
December 6th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Xavier, thanks a lot for your comment. I’ll send you a private email with some ideas.
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