1. 6/20/11 Debrief 1st WP7 HACKATON
DEBRIEF
1st Windows
Phone 7
HACKATHON
@ Nokia
San Diego
4th June 2011
hello
Vincenzo
Belpiede
Twitter: @vincebelpiede

2. 6/20/11 Debrief 1st WP7 HACKATON
On a nice &
Sunny
Saturday
@ the new
Nokia San
Diego office

3. 6/20/11 Debrief 1st WP7 HACKATON
• 40 awesome developers
HACKIN’ IT • Spent 13 long hours
• To learn the WP7 dev tools
• And developed 11 apps in less
than 3hrs of actual coding
…instead of chilling on the beach ;)
…but got free drinks, breakfast, lunch & dinner J
…& $800 worth of prizes, plus $99 free UI tools

4. 6/20/11 Debrief 1st WP7 HACKATON
11 APPS
40 DEVS

5. You know what’s BEST?
11 apps built in less than 3hours
3 Winners
• 1st Starbucks app ($500)
• 2nd Bug catcher game (fun & inspired
from an existing QT app!!! ;) ($200)
• 3rd Geofencing app (LBS) ($100)
…& other 8 really cool apps!!!
• Angry Developers game (hilarious!)
• App to manage various e-commerce
stores
some of these apps
• LBS app mashing maps and are already going
earthquake data (very actual these
days unfortunately) into the
• Curtain cost estimator Windows Phone
• Local Beer RSS app
• App to learn about all the US
Marketplace!!!
presidents
• Database project app
• Grocery list

6. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL
Our road
ahead
Given our 1st success
Nokia San Diego
management
already expressed
the wish to host
Hackathons on
a quarterly
basis!

7. To build the best
ecosystem together with
our developer friends

8. 6/20/11 Presentation Slide Title COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL • Nokia San Diego for all the support!
• Microsoft developer evangelists in Los
Angeles area!
THANKS TO
• Daniel Egan (www.twitter.com/danielegan)
• Alice Pang (www.twitter.com/alicerp)
• Commnexus San Diego for web
registration and marketing support!
http://tinyurl.com/WP7hackatonNokiaSanDiego
• Our super funny speaker who
volunteered! Bret Stateham
– (always too busy teaching and coding…
…no time for pictures ;)

9. 3 Links to download, discuss
Improvement Ideas
COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL
and watch it all!
• Show the demos from mobile via screencaster
(Help needed from MS - Daniel?)
• Show a motivational video at the beginning
• Open registration to double the amount of people 1. Link to 1 zip file with all the
we can host (50% drop rate Daniel mentioned was slides, materials, tools
very precise!)
• Feedback from developers: avoid having two http://tinyurl.com/wp7sd060411
hackathons on the same date
• Talk about cloud (Azure)
• More senior developers and technical experts from
MS to go around the room and answer technical 2. Share & Discuss your
questions (Daniel and Alice)
improvement ideas here
• Use a forum to continue the discussions even after
the hackathon within the group and facilitate http://tinyurl.com/WP7hackathon
networking (Facebook? Linkedin?
http://www.grouptweet.com/?) …plus pix&videos too!
http://tinyurl.com/hackathons
From AT&T Developer Programs
• Lightning Talks: Less Talk, More Code
• 6+ hours of coding
• Sponsor provided sample code base to work from
• Encourage interaction and mingling throughout the
day through stronger Twitter integration into the
event (Maybe use http://www.grouptweet.com/)
• 15 minute pitch session with Twitter hashtag in the 3. Watch Stephen Elop’s Keynote
morning to share ideas http://tinyurl.com/ElopKeynoteUplinq
• Provide 10 page auto forwarding powerpoints to
prevent overtime pitches.

10. See you at the next one!
COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL