List of hackathons in Maynooth, Ireland in 2015

The CoderDojo Foundation recently relaunched Zen as a new open source community platform! We are hosting a Coding hackathon to show you how to contribute to this opensource community platform! About Zen This new system allows CoderDojo community members (Mentors and Champions) to fully manage their Dojo activities like  issuing tickets to individual Dojo events, posting in forums, editing and setting up profiles etc. The system is completely open source. Below are some of the really cool community features: - A forum for community members - A forum especially for youths over 13 years of age - An improved Dojo listing where you can book tickets to a Dojo event - Profiles for individual community members where you can showcase your skills and the Dojo you belong to We're using some cutting edge open source technology for the system: - NodeJS - AngularJS - PostGreSQL - Mozilla Open Badges - Jenkins About the hackathon If you're interested in developing for this open source project please come along to our Hackathon in the Dropbox offices, in Dublin! On the day there will be 2 streams, a coding stream and a translation stream. Coding Stream We will cover how to get set up for development and open your first pull request! Don't worry about having / not having lots of experience, we will have experienced developers present to help you, and we have a list of issues that are "suitable for beginners"! This is an ideal opportunity to: - Showcase your development skills on an open source repository. Employers love to see open source activity on Github so it is an easy way to prove your skills. - Learn from experienced developers in the tech industry. The system was developed by a leading NodeJS development house, NearForm - Learn how the peer coding reviews and deployment processes work in a real world scenario. Translating Stream We are also looking for people to help us translate the community platform. If you are fluent in any forgien language we would love your help on the day. We are using Crowdin to translate the community platform. More details about helping translate on the day can be found here. This is an ideal opportunity to: - Showcase your language skills - Contribute to a open source community project that impacts youth all around the world! What you will need: Your Own Laptop and charger You don't need to be an expert, but you will need to be familiar with javascript. Resources View repository here https://github.com/CoderDojo/community-platform where you can see issues and the Readme if you’d like to get started pre-workshop. Where can I contact the organiser with any questions? If you have any questions please feel free to contact us directly via: info@coderdojo.com If you are interested in contributing to the platform outside this event, we are always looking for developers to help out, get in touch via the mailing address above. A special thank you to Dropbox for providing the venue of this event! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Universal Design offers the opportunity to create graduates whose attributes will enable them to participate in a global economy and contribute to the social and cultural development of their own communities. The Centre for Excellence in Universal Design, in conjunction with ITB, ITT and DIT as part of the Technological University for Dublin Alliance (TU4Dublin) will host a two day conference consisting of a series of workshops, keynote speakers, exhibitions and a 24 Hour Universal Design Hackathon. The conference will showcase the "best in class" teaching practices of Universal Design from Ireland and internationally and provide educators with practical skills and resources to start teaching Universal Design today!

All details on speakers and schedule is here: http://gdg-dublin.appspot.com You are able to choose "à la carte" when will you come. Please take a ticket for each parts if you want to be with us for the whole weekend but if you prefer you can choose for example to come on Friday evening and then back to thye hackathon on Sunday. Please be accurate as we have limited places and we want to reduce the number of no-show (you know who you are! :-)). FAQs The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay? No, it has to be the person attending, tickets are not transferable. What are my transport/parking options getting to the event? On street parking is limited and not free in the streets around Google. Best to use public transport or Dublin Bikes (Station on Barrow Street). Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? We will need to scan it so either have a printout or the EventBrite app/PDF/Email on your phone ready to be scanned. Where is it? In Google office on Barrow Street. 

Build the Future of Work with DAQRI Smart Helmet This one-of-a-kind event brings together developers, designers, and industrial experts to imagine use cases and build apps for the world’s most advanced augmented reality wearable: the DAQRI Smart Helmet. Learn from globally recnognized hardware and software experts and build apps for the industrial use cases the DAQRI Smart Helmet was made for. Join a team, collaborate, prototype and win prizes: together we are creating the Future of Work.   The Event  This summer, we launched our first-ever DAQRI Smart Helmet Hackathon. It was an awesome experience for both our product teams the the community, so we’ve decided to do it again. Our goal is to expand the global community that is empowered to make applications for this unparalleled platform, and also to share the continuous advances being made in all aspects of our work.  If you want to experience the world’s first wearable Human Machine Interface and build apps for the most sophisticated display and sensor hardware for augmented reality, this event is for you.   Agenda DAQRI Smart Helmet is powerd by next generation computer vision, has an industrial grade IMU, HD 3D depth sensor, and thermal camera and is controlled via gaze tracking and voice recogntion. At this Hackathon, you’ll learn hands-on about its open source enabling technology, sensors, development platform, SDK and APIs so you can build apps for the Future of Work.    Friday October 30th:   5:30pm – 6:00pm: DAQRI Smart Helmet Demonstrations, Networking & Snacks 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Learning How Augmented Reality Works at Work – Gaia Dempsey, Managing Director, DAQRI International 6:30pm ­­­– 7:30pm – From Zero To App In 60 Minutes, Rob Quigley, Solutions Development Lead, DAQRI 7:00 – 7:30pm: Participant 60 Second App Pitches 7:30-8:00pm: Form Teams, Mentors Assigned 8:00-9:00pm: Demos Re-Open 9:00-12:00am: Space Remains Open for Teams  Saturday October 31st:    9:00am – 9:30am: Coffee and Networking 9:30am –10:00am: Incorporating Computer Vision and Visual Inertial Navigation into Your App, Philip Lamb, Chief Open Source Architect, DAQRI 10:00am – 10:30am: Working with Melon, the Wearable EEG Brain Computer Interface, Dr. Stefanie Hutka, Neuroscientist, DAQRI 10:30am –11:00am:  The Evolution of Three.js, the Open Source 3D Rendering Engine for Augmented Reality – Jerome Etienne, Lead Developer, DAQRI 11:00am – 11:30am: Sensors, Computer Vision, and Augmented Reality, David Moloney, Founder & CTO, Movidius 11:30am – 1:00pm: Work in Teams 1:00pm-2:00pm: Lunch 2:00pm-7:00pm: Work in Teams 7:00-8:30pm: Team Pitch Coaching 8:30-12:00am: Space Remains Open for Teams  Sunday November 1st:    9:00am – 9:30am: Coffee and Networking 9:30am – 10:00am: Contextual Data Visualisation with Wearable Augmented Reality – Stephen Keegan, Engineering Manager, DAQRI 10:00am – 10:30am: Augmented Reality UI Revealed, Andrea De Carolis, Senior Developer, and Raul Portales, Senior Developer, DAQRI 10:30am –1:00pm: Work in Teams 1:00pm – 2:00pm: Lunch 2:00pm – 5:00pm: Work in Teams 5:00 – 6:00pm: Finger Food & Drinks 6:00 – 7:00pm: Team Presentations to Panel of Judges 7:00 – 7:30: Closing Thoughts: Where Are Augmented Reality Wearables Going? – Phil Greenhalgh, R&D Director, DAQRI Labs 7:30-8:00pm: Judges Review & Prizes Awarded to Winners    What To Expect   The Atmosphere Hackathons are full of energy because they offer a chance to engage in the thrilling challenge of rapidly brainstorming, validating and prototyping new ideas. You’ll meet smart, creative people and stretch your brain making amazing things together. There will be delicious food & drink, fun hardware prizes, and great opportuntities to meet with technical mentors and other developers interested in augmented reality hardware and software.  The Experience As a participant, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from expert presentations, pitch ideas, form teams, get support from expert mentors, and immediately put to work the new SDKs, functions, and APIs you’ve learned. Each team will have a dedicated DAQRI mentor to help connect you with the right resources, as well as listen to your feedback about and ideas about how to improve the developer experience. Senior DAQRI technical leadership will be in attendance and looking for great developers, designers, sales leaders, and industrial experts interested in job opportunities in the augmented reality space. Ground Rules  You don’t need to attend with a team – in fact we expect that most people will meet and form teams the day of the event. Teams should be made up of 6 people or less. To make it fair to everyone, pre-formed teams that do plan to attend together must register as a group ahead of time. There will be a dedicated section of the competition with separate prizes for this group. Entries will be submitted for consideration through your team’s presentation on the final day of the Hackathon. Judges will also be walking around during throughout the event and you are encouraged to tell them about your project. Entries will be evaluated based on the following criteria: Value and utility of the chosen use case Potential for real-world implementation and adoption Originality in concept and approach Completeness of prototype/mockup/demo Come prepared to learn, collaborate, and have fun!

  Can you solve leading industry problems in the Internet of Things (IoT) space? Can you foresee future societal and sustainability trends and work towards them? Can you work with a multi-disciplinary team to solve those problems? Can you work to a deadline? Do you like pizza? If your answer is “Yes” to the above questions sign up today and come participate in the IoT Enterprise Challenge. The Challenge will take place in the new DIT Grangegorman campus in Dublin on Friday October 30th. Present on the day will be some of the leading Small Medium and Large Enterprises in the IoT space with genuine problems they need resolved. IoT is a growing area of interest for many companies, it is anticipated that this space will be an underpinning element for most jobs in most sectors in the near future. *Please note, by agreeing to attend the IoT Enterprise Challenge you are agreeing to our below terms and conditions. There are four IoT Challenges; we would like you to pick your favourite on the day. They are: Environmental conditions in a built environment can impact people's performance and social perceptions. How can early warning systems be used to mitigate environmental risks?   If you could track and trace everyone who comes into a park or forest for recreation purposes, what mobile app would you create so the park owners could understand their customers behaviours and deliver an amazing experience?    Imagine an agrarian based community where every field is monitored with sensors for water, sunshine, rainfall, wind and soil data. With learning and predictive software, what gains can be made in the choice of crops or trees that are suitable for the soil now, as it will be and how rotation patterns can be positively changed?   What if you could locate and track people and objects within an educational institute. What sort of innovative applications or solutions would you suggest that could directly impact students and faculty collaboration and productivity?   Receive free access to Bluemix, the new cloud application development tool from IBM. Learn how to turn your idea into a reality. Gain some great experience with real issues that you can wow your future employers with. Win some cool stuff. Do you have what it takes? (Did we mention the pizza?) Sign up today!                                                                                                                                             FAQs Is there anything I should do prior to the event? Yes, you should ensure you have registered for your free trial on Bluemix before the event. You should also spend some time on the platform so that you are acquainted with the layout. This will help you win some prizes on the day! You will receive an email one week prior to the event with instuctions on how to access your free Bluemix account. Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event? This is a strictly over 18's event, please bring your student card or some form of ID on the morning. What are my transport options getting to the event? The best way to get to the event is by public transport. The campus is serviced by many Dublin Bus and regional bus routes. It is also just a 10 minute walk from the Smithfield stop on the Luas Red Line. Please see the above map for more details. Is my registration/ticket transferrable? No, only those who register can attend the event Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? Yes, please print out your ticket from Eventbrite and bring it with you on the day. The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay? No, the ticket must match the attendee  What can/can't I bring to the event? You should bring a laptop to the event and any other hardware you feel may be useful. You are not permitted to bring any work you have created already to the event.   Terms & Conditions  As an attendee of the IoT Enterprise Challenge you agree that the artefact(s) presented was created using original work by you or a member of your team and that none of it was substantially copied, wilfully or otherwise, from any other source and that any work used does not infringe on another's intellectual property of a third party. The IoT Enterprise Challenge is not responsible for the protection of the Intellectual Property (IP) created or presented at the IoT Enterprise Challenge from theft or intentional damage of any kind. The organisers and judges retain the right to invalidate an entry if there is any suspicion that a piece of work violates any of the expectations laid out in Section 1 and 2. An entrant's work and intellectual property shall remain the property of the author with the acknowledgment to the fact that the organisers are not and never shall be in a position to defend this right from infringement or duplication. The IoT Enterprise Challenge is not responsible for the collection and distribution, evenly or otherwise, of prizes awarded for participation in an IoT Enterprise Challenge though may assist in delivery where necessary. Sponsors of the IoT Enterprise Challenge retain the right to change the advertised prizes and/or challenges and briefs at any time before the start of a IoT Enterprise Challenge competition. By submitting an entry to the IoT Enterprise Challenge, the entrant agrees that the submitted work may be used in promotional material arranged by the IoT Enterprise Challenge organisers and partners for, but not limited to, future events and hackathons. By attending the IoT Enterprise Challenge, the entrant agrees that any photos or videos taken of the entrant at the IoT Enterprise Challenge may be used in promotional material arranged by the IoT Enterprise Challenge organisers and partners for, but not limited to, future events and hackathons Registered participants of the IoT Enterprise Challenge agree that the organisers are not liable for any loss of work or data due to power, network, hardware or software failure or malfunction and that any loss or lack of work that would be entered for the IoT Enterprise Challenge will only be considered by the judges if the idea of the artefact is clearly communicated.

The CoderDojo Foundation recently relaunched Zen as a new open source community platform! We are hosting a Coding hackathon to show you how to contribute to this opensource community platform! About Zen This new system allows CoderDojo community members (Mentors and Champions) to fully manage their Dojo activities like  issuing tickets to individual Dojo events, posting in forums, editing and setting up profiles etc. The system is completely open source. Below are some of the really cool community features: - A forum for community members - A forum especially for youths over 13 years of age - An improved Dojo listing where you can book tickets to a Dojo event - Profiles for individual community members where you can showcase your skills and the Dojo you belong to We're using some cutting edge open source technology for the system: - NodeJS - AngularJS - PostGreSQL - Mozilla Open Badges - Jenkins About the hackathon If you're interested in developing for this open source project please come along to our Hackathon in Dogpatch Labs, the top tech start up hub in dublin! On the day there will be 2 streams, a coding stream and a translation stream. Coding Stream We will cover how to get set up for development and open your first pull request! Don't worry about having / not having lots of experience, we will have experienced developers present to help you, and we have a list of issues that are "suitable for beginners"! This is an ideal opportunity to: - Showcase your development skills on an open source repository. Employers love to see open source activity on Github so it is an easy way to prove your skills. - Learn from experienced developers in the tech industry. The system was developed by a leading NodeJS development house, NearForm - Learn how the peer coding reviews and deployment processes work in a real world scenario. Translating Stream We are also looking for people to help us translate the community platform. If you are fluent in any forgien language we would love your help on the day. We are using Crowd In to translate the community platform. More details about helping translate on the day can be found here. This is an ideal opportunity to: - Showcase your language skills - Contribute to a open source community project that impacts youth all around the world! What you will need: Your Own Laptop and charger You don't need to be an expert but you will need to be very familiar with javascript. Resources View repository here https://github.com/CoderDojo/community-platform where you can see issues and the Readme if you’d like to get started pre-workshop. Where can I contact the organiser with any questions? If you have any questions please feel free to contact us directly via: info@coderdojo.com If you are interested in contributing to the platform outside this event, we are always looking for developers to help out, get in touch via the mailing address above. A special thank you to Dogpatch Labs for providing the venue of this event! Hope to see you there!

      CoderDojoGirls, GirlsHackIreland, CodingGrace and TOG Dublin  - PRESENTS - Coder Girl Hack Day to celebrate International Day of the Girl.    CoderDojoGirls, GirlsHackIreland, Coding Grace, TOG Dublin and Intel have combined forces for an artsy themed coding hackathon to celebrate International Day Of the Girl.   This is a one day event focusing on programming music and developing game apps. If you've never coded before this is the right place to start! If you've coded before, betcha you've not programmed music using Sonic Pi or made a story-telling game with Fungus Games & Unity3D.   You may be curious about hardware, the TOG Dublin team are gearing up to run an awesome hardware hack. The day will also feature talks from amazing women working in the Games Industry, Jen Carey from Havok and Elaine Reynolds from Simteractive .   Mentors will be available to support all who attend. Parents who are interested will have the opportunity to learn Python.There will also be a Stem Ed workshop for any teachers who wish to attend.     Note: * Participants under 17 must be accompanied by an adult.  * Kids must have a laptop   More Information If you have further questions, post on the google group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/coderdojo-dcu. NOTE: We do not reply to emails from Eventbrite. Please use the forum to post a question. Thanks a mill.   Twitter @CoderDojoGirls  @GirlsHackIE @CodingGrace Location DCU Innovation Campus How to get to DCU Innovation Campus   GPS Co-Ordinates are 53.3764597,-6.270683 M50 Directions: Exit the M50 at the Ballymun exit.  Head in the direction of the city centre. Drive past Ballymun, drive straight through Collins Ave crossroads. Drive past Albert Collage Park, drive tworards the next cross roads, before the cross roads, change lane to turn right for Ballymun Road. Drive 100 yards, and turn left for Ballymun Road. Drive to the end of Ballymun Road, the Met office is on the left, the Innovation Center is on the right.    What is Coder Dojo? We hacked together a cool hangout that puts the real power of the internet and technology in the hands of the Irish youth. The true power of the net comes from coding, designing and having fun. CoderDojo is a place where you can learn from others and share what you are doing! Each week we have a hands on session with technologies like HTML5, App Development, PHP or Python. See https://coderdojo.com/.  What is CodingGrace? Coding Grace are a group of developers based in Ireland who love to code and do other geeky and not necessarily crafty activities. Some of us code full-time, or just for fun (or both). We have people who are part of other technical user groups such as Dublin ALT.NET, GameCraft, Python Ireland, Ruby Ireland and more, We provide female-friendly workshops and events in an environment for developers and aspiring developers mentored by diverse instructors from the industry. See codinggrace.com for more details. See https://codinggrace.com/.  What is Girls Hack Ireland? Girls Hack Ireland is a program developed by The Insight Centre for Data Analytics (@insight_centre) with the aim of generating knowledge & interest among younger girls to pursue the academic disciplines of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects through creative, interactive learning. See https://www.insight-centre.org/node/134518.  TOG Dublin TOG is a hackerspace based in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. It is a shared space where members have a place to be creative and work on their projects in an environment that is both inspiring and supportive of both new and old technologies. See http://www.tog.ie/ Thanks, The CoderGirlHack team