The intro talk for the UIUC hackU

1. HackU
a.k.a: Serious Awesome
in 24 hours or less

2. You Hack

3. You Present

4. We dress funny
(seriously, who is judging whom?)

5. You Win Prizes!
(First prize: Photos with us!)

6. What’s the plan?
Do we seem like
we have a plan?

7. What’s the plan?
• 2 days of talks
• 24 hours of hacking
• Free food, snacks, drinks, etc
• Smart people to help you... if they
can’t, we will.

8. What’s the plan?
You can sleep when
you’re dead
or on Friday

9. What’s the plan?
or really, whenever you want.

10. The Rules
Who Rules? We Rules!
(Gimme a break... we made this really late at night.)

11. The Rules
Up to 4 people on
a team

12. The Rules
24 hours MAX

13. The Rules
!registered == !presenting
For the non-geeks, that loosely translates to:
“If you’re not registered, you’re not presenting”

14. Hacker?
What is a |-|4xx0|2?
Hacker?

15. Hacker?
Probably not a hacker...

16. Hacker?
totally a bunch of hackers!

17. Hacker?
Hacker
Dreamer Coder
Dreamer + Coder

18. Hacker?
A Hack is:
A Good Idea
Brought To Life

19. Hacker?
A HackU hack is:
Any Idea
Brought To Life

20. Hacker?
You Can:
Revolutionize Something
Automate Something
Build Something
Fix Something

21. Hacker?
If All Else Fails...

22. Hacker?
Do Something Silly

23. Demo Time
Show it off!
(even if it’s not done)

24. Demo Time
You have 90 seconds

25. Demo Time
You have 90 seconds
Problem Live Demo Details
15 seconds 60 seconds 15 seconds
or something like that

26. Demo Time
NO

27. Demo Time
POWER

28. Demo Time
POINT

29. Demo Time
You have 90 seconds
Problem Live Demo Details
15 seconds 60 seconds 15 seconds
or something like that

30. Demo Time
Have a Plan B
(you know, cuz sometimes computers suck)

31. Demo Time
but most of all...
Impress Us

32. Resources
Resources

33. Resources
Yahoo! Can Help
• Yahoo! free and open source projects
• YUI
• YQL
• tons of APIs:
Flickr, Answers, del.icio.us, Fantasy Sports, Fire
Eagle, GeoPlanet, Placefinder, Placemaker …
• developer.yahoo.com

34. Resources
Other Sites
• github.com/codepo8/hackday-toolbox
• wait-till-i.com
• isithackday.com/hacks
• gist.github.com/ydn
• developer.yahoo.com/hacku/pasthacks.html
• talks.php.net/show/hacku
• flickr.com/search/?q=hacku

35. All done!
• Run your ideas by us if you want
• Register your hack:
developer.yahoo.com/hacku/register
• Hack talk tomorrow at 6pm
• Hacking starts Thursday at 5pm
• Full Schedule:
developer.yahoo.com/hacku/uiuc.html