HackVT

So tomorrow we won’t be coming in to work, because instead we will be across the street!

This year MyWebGrocer is holding the annual Vermont Hackathon, an event that brings Vermont software developers together. We will have 24 hours to create an app that will in some way help the Vermont community.

The only other stipulation is that the application must use one of the many free open data sets that have been provided. The list of them is massive, ranging from NASA to a list of Vemont Cheese makers, so basically the sky is the limit.

Final products are graded on how closely they comply with the theme (of being useful to Vermonters), innovation, presentation, user experience, and overall quality.

So we are going to give it a shot, there is a little reward for the first place product, however the event is more about getting like minded individuals together to encourage cooperation, as well as letting developers, who have all probably been working on persistent projects, to let go and be creative.

Whatever we end up creating, I’ll let you all know on Monday.