BarCamp Malaysia

Hackathons are great because it’s a place for developers to socialize, learn and write code together. It’s a great avenue working with the developer & student community to bring out even more applications using OpenSocial. Hackers will be given a room to chill & code for this hackathon. Snacks and drinks will be provided at best. Seats are limited and you need to register your participation. Time are subject to change.

Date: 4th & 5th April 2009
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Location: Room 7, Inti College
Hosted by: The people who loves OpenSocial

Agenda: Saturday, 4th April 2009
10:00 – Registration
11:00 – Let’s Open Socially – an introduction to OpenSocial
12:00 – Duit Raya, an adhoc OpenSocial app for hackers to build upon
12:30 – Brainstorming & Teams
14:00 – Hackathon
20:00 – Dinner

Agenda: Sunday, 5th April 2009
10:00 – Final submission for “Most Promising Social Application” & 9 other good & promising apps.
14:00 – Breakout session – Teams present their applications for 1 minute
14:30 – Voting/Judging
15:00 – Closing & “Most Promising Social Application”

“Let’s Open Socially”
By: Marvin Lee & Nazrul Kamaruddin
Synopsis: Marvin & Nazrul will enlighten the audience about OpenSocial and what does it brings to the table for developers. They will also talk about their experience building OpenSocial applications. They will also be sharing  a OpenSocial application idea, which they will be giving away to whoever interested from the crowd to build it during the course of this hackathon.

Who Should Attend:

• Rockstar developers
• Students who wants to be a rockstar hacker
• Entrepreneurs from the Web 2.0 community

What You Will Learn:

• Cover sample codes on OpenSocial,
• How to write a OpenSocial application
• How to work in an OpenSocial developer sandbox
• How to monetize your OpenSocial applications

Am I good enough to attend this hackathon? What do I need to do?

• Love. You gotta have love.
• Bring your fully-charged laptop that support wireless with your own power charger & adaptor
• Ability to code in JavaScript (this won’t be a Javascript class) and other beautiful programming languages that you fell in love with (PHP, Perl, Ruby, etc)
• A team player, a comrade
• Willing to participate in coding & peer programming
• Prepare to attend the entire hackathon
• Even if your are a noob, join in the fun & learn new stuff!

Pre Work
Please complete these tasks before attending the Hackathon.  We won’t be going over these materials on the day, so please familiarise yourselves with them.

• Sign up to the iGoogle Sandbox
• Add the iGoogle OpenSocial Developer Tools tab to your iGoogle page
• Add the OSDA application to your iGoogle Developer Tab
• Add the Google Gadget Editor to your iGoogle Developer Tab
• Read the iGoogle Developer’s Guide
• Read through the OpenSocial Tutorial for iGoogle
• Read the Orkut Developers Guide

Happy hacking!