hackfest.pl

Mentor sessions / Presentation of projects

Confirmed speakers and team mentors

Wojtek Kuśmierek (Usability Expert)

Damian Wielgosik (Javascript Coach)

Tomasz Kopacz (Senior Architect Evangelist, Microsoft Polska)

Łukasz Langa (Senior Systems Architecture Engineer, Grupa Allegro)

Marcin Stecki (RoR Ninja)

General info

What the HackFest is?

HackFest is 48-hour onsite/online coding marathon dedicated to both wanna-be and experienced web developers.

When?

The event has ended! The marathon will start on Friday, 30th of September (10:00 presentations, 14:00 coding) and finish on Sunday - 2nd of October (there will be 48 hours of coding. teams are allowed to finish earlier)

Where?

Centrum Wykładowe Politechniki Poznańskiej in Poznań.

Form of attendances

Active:

Web developers form 1-3 person teams and register themselves here at the website (choosing dedicated ticket type as teams can participate in competition on site as well as online).
The aim of HackFest is to create fresh, interesting and innovative web applications with reference to given subject (subjects: e-commerce, mobile, security).
Backend technology is totally up to participating teams (you prepare deployment environment of your choice - what we need is private access to your code repository) We do provide every team with working space, WIFI, food (pizza) and shared place to have some rest (take a nap or just go to sleep :) Legal rights of all developed projects belong to developers. CloudControl ensures all participants (developing in PHP) free accounts and the vouchers for people wanting to use it afterwards.

Passive:

One can attend lectures on 30th of September, and visit competing teams during 48-hour challange! We also recommend watching live streaming of mentoring sessions (starting Saturday 12:00 - 14:00)

Highlights

This event gives web-development focused people a great opportunity to show up in an IT area. It will be also a chance to get to know some extra piece of knowledge from mentors, who we'll be visiting us.

I developed an app during HackFest...what then?

All applications will be subject to 1 week online voting on MAMSTARTUP.PL. A winning application has a chance to be incubated by Poznański Akademicki Inkubator Przedsiębiorczości (possibility to obtain 200 000 EUR financial support). We are in the process of looking for additional supporting sponsors and we will do our best to have some nice gifts for you!

People, Supporters

Wojtek Kuśmierek

His specialty lies in usability and user experience. In past, Co-founder and manager of audit and research department at UseLab. Currently acting as a partner at Friday Pm and as well is involved in design mobile application for events. In the meantime working as an independent consultant in areas of UX, usability and strategy. In spare time enjoys reading about astrophysics and evolution psychology. Big lover of South Park and Family Guy.

Damian Wielgosik

The JavaScript man with experience in the field at the companies like Nokia and Roche. Once a year he animates the front-end community by co-organizing Front-Trends conference and Falsy Values Workshops & Conference. He's also the Dataview.js library author. He runs a blog ferrante.pl which is probably the most popular JavaScript blog in Poland. Currently he prepares to write a free JavaScript book. He has already made a few steps towards it by creating varjs.com - over 200 pages cheatsheet onJavaScript language. Loves the challenges as much as things he hadn't done before.

Marcin Stecki

Senior RoR programer at Netguru and motorbike lover. His life motto is:" I have to find one very soon" Under big pressure said "RoR is my biggest passion" (lol). Can't imagine his life without egg spread with chive ;)

Łukasz Langa

Beginner in father and husband role. Professionally, Phython developer in Allegro group. Member of Python developing team. Perfectionist! Big fan of clean and testable code. Building and development is his destiny since he constructed his lego model!

Tomasz Kopacz

Working closely with architects and system designers (mostly based on Microsoft technology) and his role involve consultancy and advise on complex it solutions. His specialty is presentation of architectural solution(main focus on SOA) and wide use of .NET technology, Microsoft servers and tools supporting managing projects. Before joining Microsoft, used to work as an independent IT consultant. Since 1998 publishing in Computerworld.

We are supported by

• Strategic Partner: Poznański Akademicki Inkubator Przedsiębiorczości- PAIP (www) PAIP is an organisation, which aims to spread creative, innovative and entrepreneurial attitudes in academic environment, trying to stimulate students and meet them halfway on their way to career.
• Technological Partner: Microsoft Biz Spark (www) Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to Microsoft software development tools, connecting them with key industry players, including investors, and providing marketing visibility to help entrepreneurs starting a business.
• Supporting Partner: Grupa Allegro (www) Allegro is the biggest and best known Polish online auction website. Formed in 1999 and subsequently purchased by online auction site QXL Ricardo plc in March 2000. Allegro was added to numerous Polish web portals, which increased its popularity and assisted its rapid growth. Nowadays Allegro claims to have seven million users with a new user registering every 16 seconds.
• Honorary Partner: Politechnika Poznańska (www)
• Poznań University of Technology (PUT) is autonomous state institution consisting of nine faculties in which institutes and chairs over one thousand academic staff members do research and run educational tasks for over fourteen thousand students of full -time and part-time studies. PUT has been granted the right to confer doctorates in technical science. Moreover, it runs postgraduate studies within different faculties.

Official Patron:

Robert Burneika (official website)

Media Patrons:

• Mamstartup.pl (www) Website refering to fascinating internet projects (especially start-ups) and ways of earning money on it.
• Niebezpiecznik.pl (www) Website refering to IT security matter. Dedicated to and created by professional. They know what is the difference between hacker and cracker. If You want use website safe, You need to surf with them.
• Dziennik Internautów (www) Most exciting news about events taking place in world wide web, e-business, IT and telecommunications.
• Radio Afera (www) The oldest uncommercial radio station at Poznań area.

Sponsors:

• CloudControl (www) Helps developers build better products faster. Their PaaS solution lets developers focus 100% on the product throughout the whole application lifecycle from development to production. True scalability and pay-as-you-go pricing allow customers of all sizes to start smart and scale hard.
• BiuroInter (www)
• Helion (www)

Contact Info

Questions?

Ask Hackfest's event manager! Dorota Harasimowicz 505 606 838 fundacja@polak20.pl

Promoter

HackFest is organized by Fundacja Polak 2.0 (www, facebook) with great support from Poznański Akademicki Inkubator Przedsiębiorczości (www).