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DEBRIEF 1st Windows Phone 7 HACKATHON @ Nokia San Diego 4th June 2011 Vincenzo Belpiede Twitter: @vincebelpiede

6/20/11 Debrief 1st WP7 HACKATON

On a nice & Sunny Saturday @ the new Nokia San Diego office

6/20/11 Debrief 1st WP7 HACKATON

•  40 awesome developers •  Spent 13 long hours •  To learn the WP7 dev tools •  And developed 11 apps in less

than 3hrs of actual coding

…instead of chilling on the beach ;) …but got free drinks, breakfast, lunch & dinner J …& $800 worth of prizes, plus $99 free UI tools

6/20/11 Debrief 1st WP7 HACKATON HACKIN’ IT

6/20/11 Debrief 1st WP7 HACKATON

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You know what’s BEST? some of these apps are already going into the Windows Phone Marketplace!!!

11 apps built in less than 3hours 3 Winners •  1st Starbucks app ($500) •  2nd Bug catcher game (fun & inspired

from an existing QT app!!! ;) ($200) •  3rd Geofencing app (LBS) ($100) …& other 8 really cool apps!!! •  Angry Developers game (hilarious!) •  App to manage various e-commerce

stores •  LBS app mashing maps and

earthquake data (very actual these days unfortunately)

•  Curtain cost estimator •  Local Beer RSS app •  App to learn about all the US

presidents •  Database project app •  Grocery list

COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

Our road ahead Given our 1st success Nokia San Diego management already expressed the wish to host Hackathons on a quarterly basis!

To build the best ecosystem together with

our developer friends

COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL •  Nokia San Diego for all the support!

•  Microsoft developer evangelists in Los Angeles area! •  Daniel Egan (www.twitter.com/danielegan) •  Alice Pang (www.twitter.com/alicerp)

•  Commnexus San Diego for web registration and marketing support!

•  Our super funny speaker who volunteered! Bret Stateham

–  (always too busy teaching and coding… …no time for pictures ;)

6/20/11 Presentation Slide Title

THAN

KS TO

http://tinyurl.com/WP7hackatonNokiaSanDiego

COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL Improvement Ideas •  Show the demos from mobile via screencaster

(Help needed from MS - Daniel?) •  Show a motivational video at the beginning •  Open registration to double the amount of people

we can host (50% drop rate Daniel mentioned was very precise!)

•  Feedback from developers: avoid having two hackathons on the same date 

•  Talk about cloud (Azure) •  More senior developers and technical experts from

MS to go around the room and answer technical questions (Daniel and Alice)

•  Use a forum to continue the discussions even after the hackathon within the group and facilitate networking (Facebook? Linkedin? http://www.grouptweet.com/?)

From AT&T Developer Programs •  Lightning Talks: Less Talk, More Code •  6+ hours of coding •  Sponsor provided sample code base to work from •  Encourage interaction and mingling throughout the

day through stronger Twitter integration into the event (Maybe use http://www.grouptweet.com/)

•  15 minute pitch session with Twitter hashtag in the morning to share ideas

•  Provide 10 page auto forwarding powerpoints to prevent overtime pitches.

3. Watch Stephen Elop’s Keynote http://tinyurl.com/ElopKeynoteUplinq

2. Share & Discuss your improvement ideas here

…plus pix&videos too!

http://tinyurl.com/WP7hackathon

1. Link to 1 zip file with all the slides, materials, tools

http://tinyurl.com/wp7sd060411

3 Links to download, discuss and watch it all!

http://tinyurl.com/hackathons

COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL See you at the next one!