Report on the conduct of HackDay # 8 in Yaroslavl

November 20-21, 2010 HackDay # 8 took place. The event was first held in Yaroslavl. The venue was the 7th building of the Yaroslavl State University. PG Demidov (corpus of informatics and mathematicians).
In total, 50 people took part in the event.
Since the launch and until November 20, 72 participants have been registered on the site.
Until November 20, 8 projects were announced on the site. At the presentation of projects, 7 projects were announced.
On the demofesta 5 projects were demonstrated.
Photo report of the event: http://picasaweb.google.com/yarhack/HackDay8?feat=directlink
Event video report: http://youtube.com/yarhack#p/u
Full report of the event: http://hackday.ru/events/hackday-8/509.html

Round table

The event included a round table on the following issues.

1. Can a startup survive in Yaroslavl? What is the big cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg) to create it here?
2. Do I need events like HackDay? How to make the event better?
3. Creation of IT-community in the city and region. If necessary? What for? How can a community be helpful?

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Projects released on demofest

1. Stray desu
   Multiplayer online game. The game is a walker in which you can chat, play tower defense together, fight monsters and other players. One of the major achievements of HackDay is the “endless” auto-generated world.
   
2. Jugglingoncanvas
   Service for jugglers that implements the sitechap swap notation. The canvas tag (HTML5 standard) renders an animation: a juggler performing a site-swap sequence entered by the user.
   
3. Location-aware ToDo
   Mobile application (for Android), which allows you to set the place and the corresponding task. The application itself keeps track of the user's location and at the right moment reminds of the case planned in the current location.
   
4. Rome algorithm
   Implementation of an algorithm that minimizes additional time costs for parallel computing (applications for solving a dynamic multiprocessor schedule problem of size N by M, where N is greater than M).
   
5. Guitar battle
   A game of the genre of fighting, in which the control takes place using an electric guitar connected to a computer.
   

Winners and nominees

Winners were determined by voting teams. Each team was given a questionnaire, the teams had the right to vote for any 3 projects, except their own. Also in the voting took part the partners present at the demofest: Tenzor company, SeoPuzzle company (as a representative of UMI Soft company), Yar GTUG, Mikhail Kechinov Studio.
Teams who took the 4th and 5th place received incentive prizes: 3 certificates for annual domains in the zone. RF, certificates in the amount of 2000 rubles. for purchase in shops Figure.

First place

Location-aware ToDo
Prizes: certificate worth 10,000 rubles. for purchase in the digital stores, a license to use UMI.CMS Business, a certificate for 3 months of using digital television, 3 certificates for annual domains in the zone. RF.

Second place

Guitar battle
Prizes: certificate in the amount of 5000 rubles. for purchase in the digital stores, a license to use UMI.CMS Business, a certificate for 3 months of using digital television, 3 certificates for annual domains in the zone. RF.

Third place

Jugglingoncanvas
Prizes: certificate in the amount of 5000 rubles. for purchase in shops Digital, license for using UMI.CMS Corporate, certificate for 3 months of using digital television, 3 certificates for annual domains in the zone. RF.

Partners and Sponsors

The event was made possible thanks to the support of Asus and Intel.
Tensor, D-Link, UMI Soft, Beeline, Trendclub.ru, CMS Magazine, IT-Event.ru, flance.ru, reg.ru, Web development studio of Mikhail Kechinov, Yar GTUG, Phasis, Union of Students of YSU.

The organizers

HackDay Movement, Faculty of Informatics and Computer Engineering P. G. Demidov.

Contacts

Elena Votchennikova, coordinator of HackDay in Yaroslavl, +7 911 223 9665, yarhack@gmail.com