We held a 48 hour hackathon over the weekend 16th, 17th and 18th September 2016. Although this hackathon was designed in order to come up with a solution for the “Code for Taxicabs Mobility Challenge”, (http://code4cabs.devpost.com/?utm_source=personal&utm_medium=email&utm_content=meetup&utm_campaign=code4cabs) i.e. to improve the taxi-sharing experience for drivers and riders in Morocco, we decided to also tackle local South African transportation issues.
There was coffee on tap supplied by Black Insomnia Coffee and juice from Juicebox, as well as prizes and some food supplied by other sponsors including WhereIsMyTransport and Amazon
Our aims for the hackathon:
• For you to meet likeminded people
• Learn new skills
• Use your skills to develop something that will help improve the world
• Solve a problem
• Improve the structure for future hackathons
Problems we tackled:
• The Moroccan Taxicab Mobility challenge
• Transportation challenges in South Africa
• Hardware solutions for these problems
Everyone is welcome!
Even if you have never built an app we will introduce you to AppShed so it will be fun and super easy!
Agenda:
Friday 16th September
• 18:00 Meet & Greet
• 18:30 Speakers start
• 19:30 Intro to the Hackathon
• 22:00 Office closes
Saturday 17th September
• 08:00 office opens
• BUILD AND HAVE FUN!!!
• 22:00 office closes
Sunday 18th September
• 08:00 office opens
• BUILD AND HAVE FUN!!!
• 14:00 lunch
• 15:00 Speakers
• 15:30 presentations start
• 17:00 prizes are awarded
• 18:00 END!
The office will be open during these hours to meet people, work with your teams, to use the Wi-Fi, soldering irons and other equipment, and to drink the amazing coffee supplied by Black Insomnia. Feel free to come and go as you please.
