List of hackathons in Potsdam, Germany in 2015

The Challenges Hardware is the new game changer! With software and the internet business models have changed and accelerated in all industries, even fostering new industries on the way. Now it is time to rethink hardware the same way and bring change to life sciences, your home, your mobility and media consumption. Together with you we want to explore new ideas and concepts come to reality, meaning realistic prototypes manufactured within 24 hours of extended hacking and making. Join our Media Hackday and explore new features and possibilities that will bring digital to reality. The hackathon will bring together creative makers, programmers, designers, mobility experts, product visionaries, hardware producers and manufacturers. Join us if you are an individual maker, developer, designer or established hackathon team. The Media Hack Day takes place at the Fablab Berlin with all its tools and manufacturing machinery available. Prizes, an international jury and the praise from the community and media owners are waiting.

ROSS Conf is a one day mini-conference bringing Open Source Software maintainers and developers together in one room. Or in multiple rooms, to be fair. The projects participating in its second edition taking place in Berlin include Bundler, Ruby Object Mapper and... Ruby itself. In the morning bit the project owners will introduce their projects and share what would need work in the afternoon hackathon-y part. Zachary Scott is a Ruby committer from Vermont living in San Francisco. He's best described as a big hearted crazy cat guy. André Arko founded Ruby Together, is the lead developer of Bundler and co-author of 'The Ruby Way'. Piotr Solnica has over 8 years of experience with Ruby and Rails and knows his way around legacy systems. Also: he is 'the other Piotr S.'. ROSSConf's mission is to remove barriers for people to start contributing to Open Source. Pair programming with the maintainers of major projects is an unique experience and we believe that people partaking in our hackathon will continue to create excellent free software. "ROSSConf was brilliant. 28 PRs from 9 different people, several bug fixes, lots of great improvements to documentation, refactoring, fixes to configuration and the setup process and a commit that made the Travis build MUCH faster." Katrina Owen from exercism.io about the Vienna edition ROSSConf adheres to the Open Code of Conduct (see http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/#ROSSConf/hello@rossconf.io). By participating, you are expected to honor this code.

The BiTHOUSE has partnered with Hack Events  for the Oktoberfest Hackathon and the Bits and Pretzels Founders Conference. Join a group of founders, investors and mentors for a trip to Munich on Friday, September 25, 2015 or Saturday, September 26, 2015 on DB in the same train car. Let's show those in Munich what Berlin Founders are all about.      

Startupbootcamp Presents Smart Transportation and Energy Hackathon: Win 5k and other prizes!  Join Startupbootcamp Berlin and our partners for a weekend of brainstorming, hacking and networking at the Rainmaking Loft Berlin. If you are a developer, designer, or just passionate about the intersection between transportation and technology, you don't want to miss out on our codefest weekend!   Why? Smart Transportation and Energy is a hot topic - that's why our accelerator program is focused solely on working with startups in this space. We also have incredible partners on board: Deutsche Bahn, Airbus, Cisco, Nokia HERE, Mercedes-Benz, EnBW, Vinci, TNT. They are curious to see what you are able to accomplish in a weekend! And let's face it, what is more rewarding than a house full of talented people building new technology together?   Who? Coders, UI/UX designers and everyone who is passionate about creating new things. You will build teams of 3-5 people. We will make sure that there is no unfair advantage in terms of team size. Besides participants, we are inviting our SBC mentors and, of course, all the partners will be there to give feedback and provide insights. Gonna be an awesome weekend!   Where? In our awesome office space at Rainmaking Loft Berlin. We have everything you can wish for: a pro-kitchen, relaxation area, Skype booths, meeting rooms, an auditorium, a shower, tons of power sockets, ethernet cable, and much more. Plus, we will have food, snacks and drinks so your body is energized 100% of the time.    Prizes? We know that you will work hard, so we will give away at least 5k to the winner and have some other prizes ready to go, so that you will go home with a big fat smile!    Schedule FRIDAY, September 25 1800 - Gathering and registration 1830 - Introduction on the hackathon and different APIs/data 2000 - Idea pitching and forming groups with mentor guiding (No overnight staying on Friday)   SATURDAY, September 26 0900 - Breakfast and start 1300 - Group catch up 1330 - Level up lunch 1830 - Dinner 2000 - Optional activity Mentors will be there during the day to provide you with direct feedback and to answer any questions. Make sure to bring your own sleeping bag, roll mat, toothbrush, towel, pillow - whatever you need to feel comfortable. There will be a shower and a separate room to sleep. Still, there will be food and drinks accessible for the whole night so that it feels just like home.   SUNDAY, September 27 0900 - Allnighter breakfast 1230 - Lunch 1400 - Finish - submit hacks! 1530 - Pitch - demo your work 1730 - Prizes 1800 - Closing and beers 2000 - Go home and get some sleep More specific information on API/data, jury and mentors will follow to attendees and will be updated on this page soon. Stay calm, sign-up, and don't miss out!   Program Partners   Event Partners