HACKWEEKDAY

SPONSORED BY MOZILLA CORP

The 3rd annual 24-hour hackathon is returning to HITBSecConf2013 Kuala Lumpur this year with better challenges, great cash prizes, and few other surprises in line for developers. The quest to introduce the world to Asia’s best next generation developers, continues.

We’ve seen great projects being worked on  in last year’s HackWEEKDAY with majority of them managed to turn their initial ideas into a full blown working demo within 36-hour! Some of them are:

• DiCOM-WAVE – An open source DICOM image viewer with Microsoft Kinect as its control interface (HackWEEKDAY 2012 Winner!)

• DNSSocial – DNSSEC Management Made Easy

• TALEB – A unique social communication & collaboration platform made for students

• Touch’N’Go Android Reader – An app which utlizies NFC-enabled phones to read MiFare cards

This year’s HackWEEKDAY will see a more focused approach. There will be THREE (3) main categories to hack on:

• Mozilla FirefoxOS Mobile Apps

• Facebook APIs or Parse back-end based Apps

• Microsoft’s Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 mobile operating systems Apps

‘DevSorcerer Season 2′ - http://aka.ms/devsorcerer is over and everyone could sign up to participate in HACKWEEKDAY for the Microsoft’s Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 mobile operating systems category.

Developers are encouraged to propose an original project idea in order to stand a better chance in winning this year’s hackathon. 

SIGN-UP NOW: http://bit.ly/HWKUL2013Reg

WHEN AND WHERE?

Date: 16th till 17th October 2013

Venue: HITBSecConf2013KUL @ The Intercontinental KL (Venue – View map)

Duration: 24 Hours (16th October 1337H – 17th October 1337H)

Full Agenda (Draft)

HACKWEEKDAY Agenda – Day 1 (16th October 2013)
10:00:00	REGISTRATION!
10:30:00	Greetings and Introductions by HACKWEEKDAY Organizers
10:40:00	Greetings and Introductions by Mozilla
10:55:00	Greetings and Introductions by Facebook
11:10:00	Greetings and Introductions by Microsoft
11:25:00	Team Building/Finding, Idea Generation, Brainstorming
12:30:00	LUNCH BREAK
13:37:00	KICK OFF
15:00:00	Dev Session with MyTeksi
16:00:00
17:00:00	Dev Session with Mozilla
18:00:00
18:00:00	#HITB2013KUL END OF DAY 1
18:30:00	PROGRESS UPDATE 0×01
19:30:00	DINNER TIME!
20:30:00
22:15:00	PROGRESS UPDATE 0×02
22:30:00	Dev Session with Facebook
23:30:00
23:30:00	0xC0FFEE
HACKWEEKDAY Agenda – Day 2 (17th October 2013)
0:30:00	Dev Session (TBC)
1:30:00
1:30:00	PROGRESS UPDATE 0×03
6:00:00	BREAKFAST TIME!
6:30:00
6:30:00	PROGRESS UPDATE 0×04
7:00:00	Dev Session with Lego Mindstorms Evolution 3
8:00:00
8:00:00	#HITB2013KUL START OF DAY 2
9:00:00	Dev Session with Facebook
10:00:00
10:15:00	PROGRESS UPDATE 0×05
10:30:00	Dev Session with Microsoft
11:30:00
12:30:00	LUNCH TIME!
13:30:00
13:37:00	END OF HACKWEEKDAY!
14:00:00	Presentation by Participants to Judges
18:00:00	#HITB2013KUL Closing Ceremony
IRC Server:	irc.hackinthebox.org:6697 (SSL) #hackweekday (web interface: Click Here )
Google+:	http://gplus.to/hackweekday
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/HackWEEKDAY

(Download PDF of Agenda here: COMING SOON! )

Prizes

• USD 1337 for the one and only 1337 winning project
• Lego Mindstorms Evolution 3 Robot for best SOS/Emergency App
• 1 Mozilla Firefox OS phone each to best 3 projects
• iPad minis

 Prizes for ‘DevSorcerer 2′ finalist participants:

• Best Windows Phone 8 App – Lumia 1020
• Best Windows Phone 8 App UX – Lumia 925
• Best Windows Phone 8 SOS App – Lumia 625
• 2nd Best Windows Phone 8 App – Lumia 625
• Best Windows 8 App – Mindstorms NXT 2
• Best Windows 8 App UX – Mindstorms NXT 2

Accepted participants to the HackWEEKDAY will also receive:

1. 1 x complimentary pass to HITBSecConf2013 on the 16th & 17th of October (valued at MYR1337)

2. Access to the HackWEEKDAY ‘arena’ (Food and drinks provided over the 24 hour period).

3. Access to #HITB2013KUL’s high-speed fiber internet

Terms & Conditions: http://bit.ly/HWKUL2013TnC

WHY HACK ON HACKWEEKDAY?

1. propose, develop, improve or update the functionality of Mozilla FirefoxOS applications.

2. develop new applications using Facebook’s APIs and/or Parse’s back-end as a service.

3. propose, develop, improve or update the functionality of  Microsoft’s Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 mobile operating systems Applications.

4. propose a new and cool idea that the participant could come up with based on any of the technologies mentioned above or any other HTML5-based applications.

5. develop a socially driven SOS alert application for the Malaysian public.

HACKATHON FORMAT

This event will be divided into two (2) categories:

1. STUDENTS – Students from local Higher Education institutions. Entries can be on an individual basis or in a group of 4 (3 students + 1 lecturer/mentor from their institution)

2. PROFESSIONALS – Developers, enthusiasts and hackers from the industry. Entries can be on an individual basis or a group of 3.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own tools required to help them develop the applications/ideas during the event. This may include laptops, monitors, desktops or any sort of electronic equipment for the participants to use during their event. 10 Mozilla Firefox OS phones will be given out to help in development.