The 4th annual HackWEEKDAY developer hackathon is back once again and the search for Asia’s next generation developer continues. Held over a 2-day period (8 hours per day), HackWEEKDAY at HITBSecConf2014 – Malaysia offers not only offers some awesome prizes but more importantly it’s a chance for you to show off your development skills on an international stage.
Over the past 3 years, we’ve seen several great projects with a majority of them managing to turn their initial ideas into full blown working demos. Some of these are:
Social Mapper – a social networking app with augmented reality
http://socialmapper.net/
DiCOM-WAVE – An open source DICOM image viewer with Microsoft Kinect as its control interface (HACKWEEKDAY HITB2012KUL Winner!)
https://github.com/hackweekday/HW2012KUL/tree/master/dicom-wave
YAP – yet another plugin, a firefox browser plugin to check SHA1/MD5 hashes of files (HACKWEEKDAY HITB2012AMS Winner!)
https://github.com/DevNerd/YAP
inSecureHITB – a Windows 8 application to analyze users’ exposure level to stalkers. Additionally analyze social behavior of observed person.
https://bitbucket.org/fabhar/insecurehitb
DNSSocial – DNSSEC Management Made Easy https://github.com/hackweekday/HW2012KUL/tree/master/walled-garden
TALEB – A unique social communication & collaboration platform made for students
https://github.com/hackweekday/HW2012KUL/tree/master/TalebRespo
Touch’N’Go Android Reader – An app which utilizes NFC-enabled phones to read MiFare cards
https://github.com/hackweekday/HW2012KUL/tree/master/NFC-iddle)
• Security / networking related topics (technical / social engineering / software / hardware)
• E-commerce (food, fashion, sports, musics, travel, and etc.)
• Education (digital, gaming, smart learning, and etc.)
• Social Networking (social gathering for geeks, social gaming, social learning, etc.)
• Automation using hardware+software (home automation, haze detector, etc.)
• The functionality of a web browser (Firefox, Fennec, Chrome/Chromium, etc) by the means of either add-ons, plugins and/or custom build.
• Standalone applications and/or mobile related applications (Windows Phone Apps/ Windows Apps / Android / Firefox OS / IOS / J2ME / Symbian etc)
PROFESSIONAL / HACKERS – Developers, enthusiasts, hackers from the industry.
STUDENTS – Undergraduate/ Postgraduate Students from any higher education institutions in the Asia Pacific region. Entries should be in a group of 4 [3 students + 1 lecturer/mentor (required if team is from outside of Malaysia) from their respective institutions].
Note: Participants are required to bring their own laptops / tools to help them develop the applications / ideas during the event.
| TIME | AGENDA |
| 08:00 | REGISTRATION COUNTER OPENS |
| 09:00 | Start of HackWEEKDAY Challenge |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Developer Session – Microsoft & Mozilla |
| 12:00 – 12:50 | HackWEEKDAY Challenge (Continued) |
| 12:50 – 13:00 | Progress Update 0×01 |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | HackWEEKDAY Challenge (Continued) |
| 16:00 – 16:10 | Progress Update 0×02 |
| 16:10 – 18:00 | HackWEEKDAY Challenge (Continued) |
| 18:00 – 18:10 | Progress Update 0×03 |
| 18:10 | End of HackWEEKDAY Hackathon Day 1 |
| TIME | AGENDA |
| 08:00 | REGISTRATION COUNTER OPENS |
| 09:00 | HackWEEKDAY Challenge (Continued) |
| 9:50-10.00 | Progress Update 0×04 |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Developer Session – Quintiq |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Presentation of Hackathon Apps |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 – 17:00 | Presentation of Hackathon Apps |
| 17:00 | End of HackWEEKDAY Hackathon Day 2 |
| 18:00 | #HITB2014KUL / HITB Haxpo / HackWEEKDAY 2014 Closing Ceremony |
1st Prize: USD1500 + 1 Flame device (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developer_phone_guide/Flame) + 1 GitHub Silver Plan X 12 months (https://github.com/pricing)
2nd Prize: USD1000 + 1 Flame device (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developer_phone_guide/Flame) + 1 GitHub Bronze Plan X 12 months (https://github.com/pricing)
3rd Prize: USD500 + 1 Flame device (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developer_phone_guide/Flame) + 1 GitHub Bronze Plan X 12 months (https://github.com/pricing)
Best Lumia / Windows Phone Store app: 1 Lumia 1520 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-my/mobile/phone/lumia1520/)
Best Surface / Windows Store app: 1 Lumia 1520 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-my/mobile/phone/lumia1520/)
Best Security app: 1 GitHub Bronze Plan X 12 months (https://github.com/pricing)
Best E-commerce app: 1 GitHub Bronze Plan X 12 months (https://github.com/pricing)
Best Education app: 1 GitHub Bronze Plan X 12 months (https://github.com/pricing)
Best Social Networking app: 1 GitHub Bronze Plan X 12 months (https://github.com/pricing)