List of hackathons in Tracy, United States in 2017

A Weekend Hands-on Workshop 360/VR is blowing up! This 3-day event with hands-on training provides essential skills for producing 360/VR video. *We have very limited spots* PRE-PRODUCTION Introduction to Storytelling For our first workshop, we will explore various aspects of 360/VR storytelling including scripting, perspective, interactivity, working with actors, spatialized sound, and storyboarding. Producing 360/VR Brief information on budgeting, location scouting, permits, and scheduling. We will teach the importance how to properly prepare to create a professional looking project. PRODUCTION A hands-on overview of various 360/VR equipment. This includes a basic introduction to building 360 worlds with cameras, sound recording and tripods/rigs. Shooting/Prototyping  your 360/VR Film You’ve planned you 360 cinematic short. Now, you’ll divide roles within your film team, check equipment and create a narrative experience working with our Showdown actors. POST-PRODUCTION Putting it all together. Please bring your laptops *See requirements below* 360/VR filmmaking post-production where we will teach such as editing, plug-ins, sound design to create a new cinematic VR piece. We will include a very brief overview of stitching, (*please note we will not be doing actual stitching due to time constraints). Publishing and distributing your new 360 piece. It's time for a 360 cinematic VR Premiere! Enjoy viewing the piece with our group, while we offer constructive feedback/helpful tips for your future 360/VR projects. Class Times: Friday, February 3rd: 6:00 P.M - 9:00 P.M Saturday, February 4th: 10:00 A.M - 6:00 P.M Sunday, February 5th: 10:30 A.M - 4:30 P.M Requirements VR production equipment is provided during the workshop. All participants must bring their own WIFI-ready laptop for use during this workshop. You must upgrade your operating system to the latest version before attending the course so there are no issues. You will need to sign up for a free 7-day trial of Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere) for use during the course. Bring an external hard drive to store your video files if you have that. Not a problem if you do not. INSTRUCTORS: Don Alvarez  Don creates software for artists and filmmakers, most recently as co-founder of the leading VR/360 film planning and pitching app http://FilmmakerLive.com. Before launching Filmmaker Live to help filmmakers share their vision, Don was Technical Art Director for Microsoft's Halo 4 game studio and wrote software for many films including Walt Disney's animated film Dinosaur. Don holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University, undergraduate degrees from MIT, and convinced two people to stand naked, outside, at the South Pole (-40F) for photos.  Nathalie Mathe Nathalie is an experienced VR creative who worked on more than thirty cinematic Virtual Reality projects. She contributed to Zero Point, the first VR documentary presented at Sundance New Frontier 2015. As Jaunt’s Director of Creative Technology, Nathalie supervised the  post-production of many 360 stereo videos, including “Paul McCartney in concert”, “North Face Climbers”, and “North Face Nepal”. She was one of the few women creating visuals effects on Fast & Furious 6, Skyfall and Dark Knight Rises. Nathalie now runs NativeVR in which she co-created and produced Uturn, a VR series celebrating gender diversity in the tech industry. She is an active member of Women in VR and a Film 360/VR instructor in the Academy of Arts University. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and an M.A in New Media. Sherrie “Shero” Robertson  Sherrie is the founder of Blaze VR. Past clients in traditional film include Red Bull, Body Mints, Fuel Television (Fox), First Hawaiian Bank, Ma Cher, and Triple Crown of Surfing. She was recently invited to show “My Name is Te” virtual reality doc at "VR on the Mountain" during Sundance. Shero has also won several awards for her Virtual Reality storytelling/producing work including “Best in Show” at the SF VR hackathon and “Best Design” Google’s Project Tango hackathon. Dramatic feature script, Juke Box Hero, is a two-time Sundance Feature Film Lab finalist currently in post-production. She also produced/directed action sports surf movies that were picked up for U.S and international distribution. Limited seats. Get your tickets today! 

Hardware founders and product enthusiasts! Starting up and fearful of rejection? Come and attend the one-day Rejectionathon event that helps founders gain confidence in selling. At Rejectionathon, you’ll be given a list of challenges that will put you just slightly out of your comfort zone, and you’ll want to complete as many of them as you can with your team. Similar to a hackathon, you'll spend the day solving fun, adrenaline-packed "hustle challenges" with a small team.

High school girls in and around Santa Clara! Interested in using technology to solve problems your community faces? Come and participate in PixelHacks! You'll get to learn the basics of iOS App development, how to build bots, and how to use image and video recognition. Collaborate and compete for cool swag and awesome prizes.

GIF Hackers in the Bay Area! Come and participate in the GIF Hack. At this 24-hour hackathon, you'll collaborate with other GIF hackers to create a project based on Gfycat's API. Come as part of a team or join one at the event. You'll be able to showcase your creativity and techie expertise, while competing for the Grand Prize. Come with your awesome ideas — all your coding must be done at the Hack!

Developers, designers and IT professionals in and around San Francisco! Think you've got what it takes to compete with the best-of-the-best hackers in the Bay Area? Come and show what you've got at the Collaboration Hackathon by LiveH2H! You'll be challenged to build and pitch education, enterprise, or social media solutions using LiveH2H’s API and SDK functionality to provide a customizable meeting room experience within a company’s platform. You'll get to pitch your project to a panel of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, investors and advisors.

Lawyers, law students, future leaders! Shape the Law invites you to participate in Leadership in the Law: An Unconference & Hackathon. You'll be challenged to contribute to identify potential roadblocks to leadership and then to collaborate to develop innovative prototype solutions to those roadblocks.

SFUSD is out of school for the Lunar New Year Observance! Bring your wi-fi enabled laptop (Windows PC or Macbook)! Watch and learn how to code an app in a day! Choose any topic (Unity, website development: Ruby, PHP, Python, iOS, Android). Fee covers access to online courses and licenses for source code. All apps are published under the Apple and Android develop accounts for WHOmentors.com, Inc. SMS text 415-373-6767 with any specific instructions!

Reboot Democracy invites you to participate in the Reboot Reunion - Where We Go from Here — following on from December's Reboot Democracy to discuss creative ways to solve the nation's political crisis. If you're interested in leveraging technology to solve political issues, then come to this event to network, discuss ideas, and potentially form teams for future events.

Coders, brand marketers, martech vendors! mCordis invites you to participate in an HTML5 Interactive Advertising Hackathon held at the Connected Marketer Summit. In addition to hearing about the latest trends in HTML5 cross-channel cloud marketing platforms, you'll get to showcase your technical skills and compete to win an annual license to the FunMobility DXP Platform.

Hackers and makers! How'd you like the chance to win up to $1 million in start-up funds? You just have to come up with an awesome idea for a new Moto Mod for Motorola's new Moto Z phone. Choose from one of these three challenges: »Health and Fitness: What could make health diagnosis easier? »Retail: How could a Moto Mod change the way people experience their favorite stores and restaurants? »Multimedia: What Moto Mod would upgrade phone hardware to better suit user media preferences?