List of hackathons in Liverpool, Australia in 2015

Setelah sukses menyelenggarakan Hackathon Merdeka yang pertama pada bulan Agustus lalu, Code4Nation kembali mengadakan Hackathon Merdeka pada tanggal 24-25 Oktober serentak di 26 kota di penjuru Indonesia dan juga Sydney!! Ini saatnya untuk para diaspora untuk membangun bangsa kita!!  Hasil dari pemenang hackathon akan dikumpulkan di Jakarta pada momen Hari Sumpah Pemuda 28 Oktober 2015. Ayo bersama-sama kita berkontribusi pada negara untuk menyelesaikan masalah kependudukan!   info lebih lanjut: www.freelancer.com/hackathonmerdeka    

Healthcare techies—data visualisers, designers, UX-pros, and developers—in the Greater Sydney Area! HealthHack Australia invites you to participate in HealthHack 2015 Sydney—a non-profit, volunteer-led initiative focused on creating solutions in the health and medical research fields. Come with a team or show up solo and be prepared for a 48-hour frenzy of coding, building, hacking, and presenting with like-minded individuals! Each team will work together—building mashups, data visualisations, and apps—on a challenging medical research problem. If you need answers to your hackathon questions, then visit the tips page!

Officially launching - HackFood 2015!  Taking place November 6-8, HackFood is a weekend long business building competition and start-up boot camp that connects Australia’s brightest and most passionate entrepreneurs, foodies, chefs and developers with one goal in mind: to uncover unique digital technology solutions that address some of the biggest challenges faced by the Australian food industry. This launch event wil bing together some insightful (and entertaining!) food business start-ups and professionals to talk about some of the issues which will be addressed during HackFood 2015.  They'll give their perspectives on what makes the intersection of the food and digital technology worlds such an exciting opportunity for Australia in today's ever-digital economy!  

Get muru-D ready  Kick-start your application for muru-D’s accelerator program.  As applications for the third round open, Pollenizer presents an event that will help you develop your pitch and begin your journey with muru-D. *Some light refreshments will be available through the evening.  Pollenizer Presents:   A Lean Canvas Master Class  Pollenizer’s startup coaches walk you through the Lean Canvas and provide a framework to help you deliver a better pitch.  You will learn:  How to visualise your entire business on a single page  How to use a Lean Canvas to validate your assumptions How to differentiate your startup from the next   How to structure a mini-pitch, and deliver it in 60 seconds  How to identify the gaps in your startup, and address these for your muru-D application  With hands-on coaching from Pollenizer, you can expect to gain confidence in your startup and be able to create a more effective pitch by the end of this 2 hour workshop. Attendees will also receive inside tips to improve your startup and help get you “muru-D ready”. Agenda 6:00 Networking  6:15 Open - “Get muru-D Ready” 7:00 Lean Canvas workshop 8:30 Q & A - Close  Who should attend  Startups who are applying, or thinking about applying, for the third round of muru-D’s accelerator program. Pollenizer Pollenizer is Australia’s first incubator founded in 2008. Currently they incubate their own startups, while designing accelerator systems for partners to support startup communities globally. Startup Coaches lead and educate through a discipline built at Pollenizer known as startup science.  Coaching:   Daniel Ringrose - Pollenizer  Daniel Ringrose is a startup coach for Pollenizer. Daniel has coached hundreds of idea-stage entrepreneurs and led events for Lean Startup Machine, Running Lean, Slicing Pie. He is an active supporter of Australia’s growing startup community. Daniel also operates Sydney's Founder Institute, acting as co-director for training & startup launch program.      Fernando Parra - Pollenizer Fernando Parra will also join us as a startup coach for this event. Fernando is originally from Argentina, where he founded local chapter of Lean Startup Machine and the largest Lean startup meetup in the country. At Pollenizer, he leads product development for the company’s Startup Science® tools. Fernando has coached many startup teams, both corporate and startup, including recent work with Singtel, Telstra and Nestle.     Mick Liubinskas - muru-D Mick Liubinskas is a high energy, technology entrepreneur, advisor, investor and industry leader. For the past 8 years he has co-founded and worked with more than 30 technology startup companies, including starting Pollenizer with Phil Morle. Now working with Telstra, he has successfully launched muru-D technology accelerator, supporting their ambition to create global software businesses based here in Australia.      Mentors:  Liz Kaelin - Founder of YouChews Liz Kaelin is a dietitian and foodie-turned-founder of leading Australian food tech startup You Chews, an online platform making it easy to find great food for meetings and events. Liz is a muru-D class #2 alumni, Telstra Women in Business spokesperson and was recently named one of the Australia’s Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs under 40. Liz also co-founded the Food Tech Australia Meetup group and HackFood, Australia’s first Food Tech Hackathon. Yifat Shirben  Passionate about all things digital, Yifat is an entrepreneur and marketing expert with over a decode of international experience in various fields of interest (social, mobile, SEO etc). Yifat specialises in user acquisition, messaging and branding, and has been focusing on growing startup businesses as SYD Ventures CMO for the past few years.       muru-D's class #2 graduates: Learn more about muru-D's portfolio alumni here. Inkerz Raised $470K  Inkerz is an all-inclusive platform that has video, voice and instant messaging built in. Plus, you will never miss a beat with its recording and playback features.   Tripalocal Raised $850K Tripalocal is an online platform connecting travellers with locals for authentic local experiences.   Wattblock Raised $500K  Wattblock provides quickstart energy reports for strata buildings saving up to 70% on common energy costs and unit owners up to $400 p.a.                                 

Freelancer is the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and number of projects posted. We help small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs turn that spark of an idea into reality. We are changing lives in the developing world by providing opportunity and income. After months of hard work from our engineers, we are ready to release an public beta version of the Freelancer API. It will allow you to build apps and services powered by our technology and our marketplace - the possibilities are endless!   WHAT CAN I BUILD? Here are a few ideas:   FixMySEO Build a service or app that lets people scan their website for SEO problems and instantly solve them by hiring SEO experts on Freelancer.   Wordpress Translation Plugin Watch a blog for updates and automatically send them on to translators on our marketplace. Fetch the translated text and automatically update the blog.     Real Caricatures An app that converts my photos into caricatures drawn by real freelancer artists.   These are just suggestions. We have millions of registered freelancers with hundreds of skills. Entire businesses have been built around some of our project categories. There are no boundaries and everything is possible.   JUDGING CRITERIA Did you use the API? We have built a beautiful RESTful API - does your solution use it effectively?   Is your problem real? Are customers affected by this problem? Will they see value in your solution?   Is your solution new? Have others already solved this problem using your exact solution?   Fit and Finish How was your attention to detail? How is your UX? How scalable is your code?   PRIZES 1st prize: $6000 2nd prize: $3000 3rd prize: $1000   HOW TO ENTER Signup to the Eventbrite event. API docs will be available before the hackathon starts - stay tuned for details. For questions please email hackathons@freelancer.com   ELIGIBILITY AND REQUIREMENTS Max team size of 4. You may work on the idea or solution outside of the hackathon time but must be present for judging.   You will retain full IP of your solution but you must grant Freelancer a non-exclusive, worldwide, transferable, royalty free copy of the code to use as we wish. (TLDR; we won't be commercialising the code but want a copy).