List of hackathons in Cirencester, United Kingdom in 2016

Come join in the Circular Towns - Circular Mapping Challenge at Reading Green Festival, which is part of London/ READING OSCEdays. The focus will be around sharing, learning, meeting new people and exploring new places through a circular lens. Participants will have a chance to explore the city and engage in mapping the local activities and related places – putting circular initiatives on the map (literally). The goal is to create an open map of the towns circular related activities and connections that will be of use and can be built upon further by local groups.

Come participate in Hack the Local! Collaborate with community and mainstream journalists, journalism students, tech start ups and software developers to build new apps and platforms based around local news challenges. Teams will compete for prizes while being provided expert guidance in open data and community journalism.

Data scientists, coders, business tinkers, creative types! Come and help create mobility solutions for the future. Participate in the Smart Transport Hackathon and set your mind and skills to create ideas and prototypes that address key developmental needs within the UK’s transport network.

This is ForsvarX's first experiment project together with Basement Innovation. The event is open to the public and enthusiasts. The purpose is to create an arena where the participants can gain insights into new ideas and help start-up businesses on the road to a tested products. Go from idea to prototype during this weekend and learn how to fly. The project is in collaboration with SOFWERX, Mil-OSS, Cellar Innovation, Startup Norway, Leading Change, Innovation Norway, Hack4Defence, Startup Weekend and Tech Stars. The event runs parallel, with Hackathon on SOFWERX in Tampa, Wright Institue in Ohio and Griffith Institute. You do not need previous knowledge to participate and will get access to resources. Examples of topics that can be selected are: GeograficSystems, Autonome Systems and Robots, Cyber, Workout, Etteretning, and Logistics. Note: This is not an event where companies can showcase their products. The event is an initiative of individuals. Ticket revenue goes to expenses such as local, stationery, food/drinks for participants and other administrative expenses.

Probabilistic programming is a relatively new field on the intersection of machine learning, computer science and artificial intelligence. Probabilistic programming allows you to write any generative probabilistic model in a straightforward way, simply by describing the generative forward process. Anglican is one of the start-of-the-art probabilistic programming languages. This hackathon on Probabilistic Programming based on Anglican, consisting of 3 parts. Part 1 will be an introduction session to probabilistic programing, part 2 will be for programming skills to write probabilistic programs in Anglican, and part 3 will give you the opportunity to bring along and/or discuss data and model, and discuss probabilistic programming implementations and predictions with the help of the facilitator and other participants.

Good news, everyone! The highly popular Open Sauce Hackathon will be hosted again this year, this time at Cardiff University's new National Software Academy, based in Newport.  The Open Sauce Hackathon is a 2 day event, where like-minded people get together and work on a tech project. At the end of the event, each project is demonstrated to a panel of judges. The judges evaluate each project, and award prizes to the teams behind their favourite ideas. There are no restrictions as to what type of project you can work on — our only requirement is that you release the source code to your project at the end of the event, so that others can learn from your project, and perhaps continue development. We provide the venue, catering, our sponsors provide the judges and prizes — all you need to do is provide the ideas and code! The Hackathon is open to all, so whether you're a student, retired or anything inbetween, head down to the National Software Academy on the weekend of the 12th March for what's sure to be another great event. We recommend a maximum team size of 5 people — you can come pre-assembled, or you could find a project that interests you on the day and join a team then. Presentations will take place at 16:00 on the Sunday Afternoon, prizes will be handed out at 17:00, and we anticipate the event wrapping up at around 17:30. You will need to provide your own laptops/desktops, but we will provide internet access and power. A Wireless Network card will be required to connect to our guest Wi-Fi connection — we're unable to provide internet access over Ethernet. FAQ: I have no team, can I still come?  Of course! Just turn up on the day and we will be able to fit you into a team! Or get social before the event at @cfhack on Twitter, or via IRC by joining #cscf on Freenode.  Shall I bring food and drink?  Lunch and refreshments are provided on the day, so you are responsible for breakfast and dinner, you are more than welcome to bring any extra food or drink with you! Are you providing equipment?  You will have to provide all laptops/equipment you require to complete your project. Is there a max team size?  We ask the you have no more than 5 team members, otherwise you might not all get prizes! Do I have to be a Student? No, this event is open to everyone! Sponsors: It would be impossible to host the Open Sauce Hackathon without the generosity of our sponsors - a big thanks to the following companies (in no particular order) for their support:     

BCUHack is a 24 hour Hackathon, which is free for students at Birmingham City University. A Hackathon is an event in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming. Programmers and web developers of all experience levels are welcome to participate and you do not need to be an expert. This is a brilliant opportunity for you to develop new software, learn about new technologies, acquire new skills and meet new people. The Hackathon will involve you working in a team to develop software within the time frame. There will be challanges set by the event sponsors and you can create software on any platform, using the tools provided by our sponsors. After the 24 hour programming period, the teams get together to present their new software to the sponsors and judging panel and prizes are awarded. For more information please visit www.bcuhack.co.uk

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is hosting the next OpenStack Swift Hackathon in Bristol, UK. The OpenStack Swift mid-cycle hackathons are designed to allow the active contributors from the global community to get together for a few days and review code, design features, and work together. This event is geared towards Swift development, and will not include any introductory sessions or formal presentations - the agenda will be designed on the go based on what will need to be covered.

The WarwickHACK Hackathon is gathering makers and innovators to come and create unique and exciting projects in just 24 hours. Students can come together to make, create and innovate! You can build all sort of things ranging from hardware projects to web applications. There are no limits!

Water quality is essential for good river health, the water resource in Thames catchment is of major environmental, social and economic value to South East region in England. It contributes to farming, fishing and mining as well as recreation and tourism. Knowing conditions of certain water quality indicators in advance will give water quality managers and other end users information to make better decision for their activities. The challenge is to use your coding skills to help deliver the best information to water quality experts, or make a forecast on water quality near the river you live. Building an app using big data technology to forecasts and visualize water quality.