List of hackathons in Portsmouth, United Kingdom in 2016

Come along to PubHack -- a 10-hour digital hackathon that takes place in a pub. Collaborate in teams of up to 4 strong and you'll have 10 hours to make something based on a theme -- that will be announced at 9am on the day!

Virtual Reality developers! Want to get your hands on the latest motion-tracked input controllers from Oculus? Participate in Oculus Touch 24hr VR Hackathon and get early access to the devices to understand their capabilities and learn how to develop with them! Collaborate in teams to create fun mini-games that make use of the capacitive, haptic motion-tracked controllers. You can be a coder, an artist, a designer or a bit of all three, you make sure your team has enough relevant skills to create a working build in Unity for evaluation.

We live in a culturally diverse country that promotes gender equality, and yet females and their views are under-represented — and often misrepresented — in the UK media. This summer, GlobalGirl Media UK will train its first cohort of girls in digital media! This is an an amazing opportunity for girls to create and share digital journalism designed to ignite community activism and spark social change. The course will cover: »Digital journalism »Video camera, sound and editing »Blogging, print journalism and writing for camera »Interview techniques »How to source and pitch a story »Social media for social change, how to use media to start a campaign »Leadership and civic activism The course also includes field visits to broadcasters such as the BBC, on-going support from a mentor and advice for furthering your career in journalism, as well as possibilities for international exchange with previous graduates and an online platform for your reports.

Greenshaw/Edenham High School is hosting a student hackathon. Participants will collaborate on an assigned project and spend the day coding to create the best idea they can and then presenting their solution.

Angular coders! Sign up for the CodeUp MeetUp mini hackathon! At this CodeUp MeetUp the event revolves around Angular. Armed with your laptop, you'll be paired with another coder and get your chance to showcase your code to each other, discuss ways of working with code, and maybe even write a bit of code.  After 15 minutes, you'll rotate and be paired with a new coder.  This gives you an efficient way to see which coders you want to collaborate with further in a hackathon or otherwise.

Open source GIS users, developers, supporters--join OSGeo:UK at FOSS4G UK 2016 for two days of conferences and a one day hackathon - Humanitarian Hack with HXL. Sharpen your design and coding skills to explore ways to improve information sharing during humanitarian crises. Come up with innovative ways to leverage data discovery and spatial data usage, using HXL with QGIS and CKAN, to help people in need!

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 attend the hackathon for those who love playing with big data. Hack on projects that involve big amounts of data acquired through APIs or by scraping.  Use common tools such as Python and the Google App Engine.  All projects completed at the hackathon can be fully production ready.  Using AngularJS for mobile, a mobile app can be run natively and used publicly by the end of the hackathon. At the hackathon's conclusion, each team presents their project and each team votes for another team for best hackathon project.

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.

This hackathon is about the health of young people in Hammersmith & Fulham. Many youngsters are struggling to obtain healthy eating and exercising habits and parents are finding it harder and harder to play actively with their children. Therefore, this event wants to challenge you to find new, creative and exciting ways to get young people and families to start eating well and moving more. Be part of a lasting change because your ideas could change lives!