We are very happy and proud to be organizing the first RHoK event in Southampton UK! For more background on RHoK and how this happend see this blog post.
We're currently planning all the details of this amazing event, and looking for subject matter experts, speakers, judges, and sponsors!
We're also accepting registrations! Please sign up below. Check this page often for updates, or contact the event lead: Dirk Gorissen (@elazungu)
Twitter hashtag: #RHoKSoton
** Updates:
- Start time has moved from 9:30 am to 9:00
- If you are NOT a student/staff of UoS or eduroam member send Dirk Gorissen the MAC address of any device you want to use over the weekend by Friday 1pm. We are working hard to avoid this but for now we must assume this will be necessary.
- Checkout the Featured problemset from Nike, NASA, The World Bank, Amnesty and others
- Make sure you have a flexible dev environment setup and a github account
- Pre-event reception at 6pm in the Trago Lounge
Registration Deadline:
Friday, June 1, 2012
Reception Date:
Friday, June 1, 2012
Reception Location:
Trago Lounge, Southampton
Reception details:
We will get together for a social drink in the Trago Lounge:
190-192 Portswood Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 2LB
023 8055 8515
http://goo.gl/maps/nrhO
Hackathon Location:
University of Southampton, Highfield Campus
Hackathon Details:
Location:
University of Southampton, Highfield Campus. Mountbatten building (#53), common room on level 3
Schedule:
Friday, June 1st
- 6pm - Pre-event meetup in the Trago Lounge
Saturday, June 2nd
- 9:00am - Welcome & problem statement presentations
- 10am - Form groups and hackathon begins
- 12:00 - Lunch
- 5:30pm - Team status reports
- 6pm - Pizza
- Hackathon continues (through the night if you'd like)
Sunday, June 3rd
- 9am - Breakfast
- 10am - Team status report
- 12pm - Pizza
- 3:00pm - Hackathon ends & judging begins
- 5:00pm - Judging completed & prizes awarded.
Prizes:
- Github subscriptions
- Microsoft Gadgeteer Kit
- Other prizes TBD
Sponsors:
- ITDev: ITDev provides expert software development and electronic engineering services and is based in Southampton, UK.
- Enterprise @ Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton and Microsoft
- Dominos Pizza, Avenue Branch, Southampton
- Microsoft Gadgeteer
- Github: Helping people build software together
Event Leads: