Fwd: Participate in the Develop for Good Hackathon at your Extended Event!

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From: "Kara Cooper" <kmco...@google.com>
Date: Jun 22, 2012 4:39 PM
Subject: Participate in the Develop for Good Hackathon at your Extended Event!
To: <io12-e...@googlegroups.com>

Hello I/O Extended Organizers!

I'm emailing to let you know about an exciting challenge Google.org has launched in conjunction with Google I/O. Google.org has partnered with the team organizing I/O Extended to launch the Google "Develop for Good" Hackathon." We have three hackathon challenges hosted by our Google teams, and are inviting hackers to tackle issues around repressive regimes (Google Ideas), engaging citizens in politics (Google Politics & Elections) -- and enabling us all to be a bit greener! We'd love for your event to participate in this exciting and worthwhile challenge!

The Hackathon:

Developers (or anyone!) can start hacking right away and then bring their ideas to one of the Extended events during I/O.  If you are interested in organizing a hackathon at your Extended event, please email the teamat develop.for.g...@gmail.com to register interest by end of day today (6/22) if at all possible (we want to send you schwag ASAP!) 

Submission & Prizes: 

Hackers will have until 11:59 pm (PDT) on Friday June 29, 2012 to complete and submit their proposals (via this form). After June 29th a team of Googlers will judge the submissions for each challenge. The most promising submission for each challenge will win up to 5 tickets to Google I/O 2013, along with the honorary title of "Google Developer for Good, 2012". In addition, we’ll award one of the latest Chromebooks to each member of the team producing the best web app across all three challenges. The winners will be announced by ~August 1st, 2012. Find further details of the challenges, prizes, submission guidelines and hackathon rules on the I/O Extended organizers' website.

How we can help:

Once we receive your email, we can help arrange to have the challenge leads available to answer questions over hangout in your time zone. We will answer any questions you have about the hackathon and, if you reply today, we can also send you some schwag to give away at your event.

We look forward to seeing the great submissions that result from your events!

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Kara Cooper | kmcooper@google.com | 650.214.7523


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