OpenSocial Hackathon to be held

The timing coincided with the launch of goo Home Sandbox, and we have decided to jointly host the OpenSocial Hackathon with goo, OpenSocial Japan Community, and Recruit Media Technology Lab.

Hackathon is a portmanteau of "hack" and "marathon," and participants are divided into groups and create software by coding on the spot.

This has been held several times in the past, mainly by Google, but this time we will be using goo Home Sandbox as a container.

Organizers: goo Home, Recruit Media Technology Lab, OpenSocial-Japan Community Date and Time: Friday, April 24, 2009, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Doors open at 9:30 AM) Location: Recruit Media Technology Lab Participants: 35 Requirements:

• People interested in OpenSocial
• People with JavaScript programming experience
• People with experience developing OpenSocial gadgets (The tutorial below will help you understand the process more easily.) http://code.google.com/intl/ja/apis/opensocial/articles/tutorial/tutorial-0.8.html
• People who can bring their own laptop

*Participants are also invited to attend a pre-meeting on April 14th. Date and Time: Tuesday, April 14th, 2009, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Doors open at 6:00 PM) Location: Recruit Media Technology Lab Content: Hackathon team division procedures, exchange of ideas, etc.

If you would like to participate, please register at the following two sites:

http://atnd.org/events/472__HTML_TAG_12__

http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-hackathon-0424__HTML_TAG_14__ ↑Please read the details listed here carefully.

On the day, Yoichiro, who wrote Introduction to OpenSocial__HTML_TAG_17__, , Yusuke Kawasaki__HTML_TAG_19__, people from Google, and of course myself will be participating as tutors.