Nokia Redy.Set() {Code} Challenge

[ccrraaiigg007]

I'm here at the Atlanta event. It has been a good event even if the attendance was low. Anybody else want to share their experiences at one of these events?

 

[wenogg]

I'm here at the Atlanta event. It has been a good event even if the attendance was low. Anybody else want to share their experiences at one of these events?

What was it like? Did they talk about if and when the bounty board will go up?

 

[ccrraaiigg007]

What was it like? Did they talk about if and when the bounty board will go up?

The event was small. there were only 5 developers there. They did not talk about the bounty board. That must be a whole separate thing.

 

[wenogg]

The event was small. there were only 5 developers there. They did not talk about the bounty board. That must be a whole separate thing.

That is really small. Events around here usually get 30+ devs for Microsoft hosted hackathons/dev events. Did you get a phone

 

[ccrraaiigg007]

That is really small. Events around here usually get 30+ devs for Microsoft hosted hackathons/dev events. Did you get a phone

I sure did! I won $150 and a Lumia 900!

 

[wenogg]

Awesome, what are you working on?

 

[ccrraaiigg007]

Awesome, what are you working on?

The counterpart to my Gold Buyer's Toolkit. It is called Silver Buyers Toolkit

 

[theomodsim]

I went to the hackathon in Columbus this past weekend and had a good time. There were about 25 or so developers, from which about 10 apps (from individuals and teams) were presented at the end.

I heard at the event that the idea of having a bounty board had legal issues (ownership of ideas and whatnot), so you had to walk in to the event with an idea in mind or come up with one on the spot. I didn't have any ideas in mind when I walked in, and I didn't think of anything that could be up and running in a few hours until 12:30 PM (the hacking started at 9:30 or so), so my app was pretty lackluster to say the least.

Several devs just worked on apps that they were already working on before the event, which I thought detracted from the competition somewhat. Hopefully they set up some sort of rule where one must develop the app from scratch at the event to level the playing field.

 

[wildbohr]

I would have liked to attended the Canadian event, but the only one they had was on the west coast in Vancouver, East Coast gets no love (our population density MAY have something to do with it ).