First of all, enjoy spending most of your time coding!
Items marked as "external" won't necessarily disturb the coders.
General stuff
- You can grab coffee, tea, soft drinks and snacks the whole day and throughout the weekend.
- Alcoholic beverages will be available during dinner or after 18:00h.
- There will be a Wii-console if you want to set your mind to something else
- Some parts of the hackathon will be live broadcasted via a hangout (especially the opening night on Friday and app presentations and winner announcement on Sunday)
Friday
18:30
- Opening and registration
19:00
- Opening
- Hangout with global sponsors
- Local sponsor pitches
- Introduction of the hackathon: how to get started
20:00
- Teams spread out and focus on their app idea, (interaction) design and business case.
- The rest can continue emptying their drinks and bags of chips and peanuts ;-)
21:00
- Team pitch their ideas
Saturday
9:00
- Doors open
10:00
- Official start time
12:00 - 13:00
- Grab some lunch
15:00 - 15:30
- "A walk in the park"
18:00 - 19:00
- Dinner
22:00
- Close for the day
Sunday
9:00
- Doors open
10:00
- Official start time
12:00 - 13:00
- Grab some lunch
14:00 - 14:30
- External: Hangout with bloggers / press. (TBC)
15:00
- Reminder to document hacks on Amsterdam Hacks Wiki page and wrap up projects
16:00
- Deadline. Stop coding and do final preparations for the team / app pitches
16:30
- Teams present their apps.
- Start of judging/voting.
- Cool-off for devs
17:30
- Announcement of results/winners. (By this time we should ALL be winners!)
18:00
- The end