Hackathon.lt - Lithuania Developer Days 2014 (FREE!)

Summary: By using best practices from Silicon Valley to organize Hackathon, training and conference for IT Webmasters, Mobile developers and Media people.

Key goal: LESS of slide-shows, MORE Q&A and real practice - create material real-time. Create what exact people needs and want to learn about.

Event Goals: Hackathon + Training + Challenges + Real time help, advices & support + Talent Scouting (EN) + Facebook Marketing

Event Keywords: WordPress, Symfony, Php-Fusion, Windows Phone, Php, Facebook Pages Marketing, how to promote Photography & IT business via Facebook pages, Google+ & LinkedIn pages.

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Lietuviškai: Liepos 3-6 Lietuvoje vyks 1-asis tikrasis hakatonas Lietuvoje. 70% renginio bus lietuvių kalba. Talent Scouting renginiai bus anglų kalba, bei bus nufilmuoti, o esant galimybei - net ir transliuojami realiu laiku.

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Event Schedule summary:
Day 1: Represent yourself & your startup (NO CODING)
Day 2: Web day - CLOUD, CMS & ONE-PAGE-APPs (YES, WE WILL CODE)

Day 3: Mobile day - Windows Phone Apps (YES, WE WILL CODE)

Day 4: Marketing & Media day (NO CODING)

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More information/VIP upgrades here: http://hackathon.lt

Day 1: Represent yourself & your startup

Place: “Microsoft Lietuva” Office – “Baltic Hearts” center, Building A (Ukmerges st. 120, Vilnius)

Coding: NO CODING

Date: July 3rd – Thursday

6:00pm – PART A - WE:

1. Event program and introduction

2. How to pitch - best practices. 5 fingers rule. Time rules. Size and ergonomic rules (colors, fonts, sizes).

3. How your LinkedIn profile should look like

4. What is TalentScouting and how can we help you to go to Silicon Valley or San Francisco

5. Differences between Silicon Valley (US) and Amber Valley (Lithuania)

7:50pm – 10 minutes BREAK

8:00pm – PART B - YOU:

1. Who are you and what you do

2. What is your idea/website about

3. What is your plan

4. What are you looking for to advance

9:30pm – BREAK TIME: Networking

9:45pm – PART C - WE:

6. How to make your product suitable for San Francisco or Sydney, US or Australia market.

7. What we used to improve our products (i.e. UP/DOWN system, FB comments VS local comments)

8. How to track your product (Google Analytics, Crazy Egg, A/B tests in G.A., K.I.S.S. metrics).

9. How to K.I.S.S. and D.R.Y. (keep in Simple & Stupid, and do not repeat yourself)

10. How track your work via Asana, GDocs and TimeDoctor.

11. How to manage your time and be productive - about working by the beach, in a train, or under the palm tree in Hawaii. And how to stop lying to yourself.

11:00pm – END of day

Day 2: Web day - CLOUD, CMS & ONE-PAGE-APPs

Place: Vilnius University Mobile Apps Laboratory – Baltupiai – (Didlaukio g. 47, Vilnius)

Coding: YES, WE WILL CODE

Date: July 4th – Friday

10:00am – PART A - ALL ABOUT SERVER / CND:

1. Two cloud platforms - Amazon AWS & Windows Azure - new features review.

2. How to setup Amazon AWS / Windows Azure Setup.

3. Amazon S3 VS CDN.

4. Zend Server Free for Windows 8.1 - features and usage examples

5. Version Control - GIT > SVN.

6. Working in a team - GitHub.com VS local GIT instance.

7. Task management Using JIRA with GitHub, GreenHoper.

8. 3 level caching - Server side (Varnish 3 or APC, ESI* VS API), Framework (Zend Optimizer+), Web (WP Cache), CDN/S3 expire-date, gzip etc.

*Edge Side Includes

11:50pm – 10 minutes BREAK

12:00pm – PART B - FUTURE IS JAVASCRIPT:

1. One page Apps

2. Backbone.js & LocalStorage

3. HTML5, CSS3, jQuery

4. Web graphics - WebGL (ex. Canvas3D), gRaphael, HighCharts. Forget the Flash. Feedback about MS Silverlight and Moonlight (Silverlight port for Linux)

5. Hackathon

6. Q & A discussion (Javascript)

3:00pm – VERY LATE LUNCH

3:30pm – PART C - WordPress 7 & Php-Fusion 8:

1. Code like a pro in WordPress 7 / Php-F 8. Geek features.

2. WordPress 3 VS Php-Fusion 8: Themes, templates, designs, framework, libraries, etc.

3. Hackathon

4. Q & A discussion (WP/ Php-F)

7:00pm – A BIT LATE DINNER

7:30pm – PART D - Symfony 2.X:

1. Framework new features review

2. Code like a pro in Symfony 2, tricky features

3. WordPress 3 VS Symfony 2

4. Hackathon

5. Q & A discussion (Symfony)

10:20pm – 10 minutes BREAK

10:30pm – PART E - Challenges & Talent Scouting:

1. Talent Scouting / Blitz challenges (WP 3, Php-F 8, Symfony 2)

11:59pm – END of day

Day 3: Mobile day - Windows Phone Apps

Place: Vilnius University Mobile Apps Laboratory – Baltupiai – (Didlaukio g. 47, Vilnius)

Coding: YES, WE WILL CODE

Date: July 5th – Saturday

10:00am – PART A - We show, you learn:

1. .NET 4.5 new features review to code Windows Phone Apps

2. How to use Microsoft Azure Cloud for your App

3. Code like a pro in C#, tricky features

4. Mobile App VS HTML5 page (P.S. Forget the flash)

1:00pm – LATE LUNCH

1:30pm – PART B - You - DO, we - HELP YOU to do, and to check:

1. Hackathon

2. Q & A discussion (Windows Phone)

8:00pm – A BIT LATE DINNER

8:30pm – PART C - Challenges & Talent Scouting:

1. Talent Scouting / Blitz challenges (Windows Phone)

11:59pm – END of day

Day 4: Marketing & Media day

Place: “Microsoft Lietuva” Office – “Baltic Hearts” center, Building A (Ukmerges st. 120, Vilnius)

Coding: NO CODING

Date: July 6th – Sunday

10:00am – PART A - Social Marketing:

1. How to reach 250,000 Lithuanians with 50 dollars spent in ads.

2. 20 different ways to make your photography/video business popular IN 3 MONTHS via Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Linked.in

3. Experiences and practical advices from Facebook Advertisement training program

4. How Media (Photo, Video & Social - Youtube, Vimeo & Facebook) can help you to promote your IT or Photo Business

11:50am – 10 minutes BREAK

12:00pm – PART B - Creating Media:

1. All about shooting in 4K.

2. Discussion, Q&A:

_a) APS-C VS Full-Frame

_b) Travel, documentary, studio equipment.

_c) Stabilizators - 5-axis in-camera, on-lens, electronic gimbala, steadycam's etc.

_d) Camera gear - Sony A77II, A7r, A7s; Nikkon, Cannon Mark 3, R.E.D., GoPro 3+ Black, Nokia Lumia 1020 41Mpix, Samsung Galaxy S5; Medium Format Cameras.

1:20pm – 10 minutes BREAK

1:30pm – PART C - Editing Media:

1. Editing videos in 13.3" Ultrabooks (Yoga 2 Pro, MacBook retina). MacOS VS Windows 8.1

2. Sofware for editing videos - Adobe Premiere CC, AHVCD, XVCD, ROVI Codes, Hardware VS Software acceleration, 4th Gen Core i7. Also Sony Vegas, Final Cut, Movie Maker.

3. Shooting with GreenScreen VS in locations. Budget and quality differences.

4. Practical example of using ChromaKey in Adobe Premiere CC.

5. How to complete short-lengh movie from shooting to editing in 3 DAYS

6. Photo editing - Adobe Photoshop CC VS Adobe LightRoom, IrfanView, Camera RAW VS JPEG.

4:00pm – VERY LATE LUNCH

4:30pm – PART D - RESULTS:

1. Hackathon results review

2. Hacker Rank 2014 in Lithuania

6:00pm – END (Pub Crawl - Beer, Wine and Party time!)

SOFTWARE/IDE/ENVIRONMENT NOTES:

1. Notes for DAY 2:

a) For localhost we will use WAMP (I recommend Zend Studio Free Edition). Download FREE TRIAL from here:

http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/downloads

And after 30 days you can just disable extra features.

b) For servers we will use LAMP (Ubutu Linux, Amazon Linux, for Shared servers we will use Direct Admin management tool). VPS Servers will be from Duomenucentras.lt and Amazon AWS

2. Notes for DAY 3 - If you a student and have LSP/ISIC you can download Visual Studio 2013 for FREE from Microsoft DreamSpark ( https://www.dreamspark.com/ ). Otherwise please download TRIAL. Please install packages for Windows Phone App development.

3. Notes for DAY 4 - Please install Adobe Premiere CC 30 days Trial to your computer.

HACKATHON RULES:

1. On day 2, In hackathons you will have two options - either take a challenge, which will be from Facebook Hacker Camp, CodeEval etc., or if you have working Php website on Symfony, Wordpress or Php-Fusion - you will be able to introduce and create a unique widget/plugin for your own products, which will help your website. You will have not just to show the result, but explain how this new features is helping your website, and why did you chose to create it, instead of using public plugin.

2. On day 2, You will also be able to choose either take 4 different challenges (Wordpress, Php-Fusion, Front-end JS and Symfony) for maximum of 5 points in fully-completed, or to implement one big one for choosen platform for maximum up to 3 points.

3. On day 3, you will be able to choose to create HTML5 Web App for maximum of 2 points, or create Windows Phone App for Maximum of 4 points.

4. You will lose 1 point of your total day score for each 1 day late. Maximum late days is 2 days.

5. Minimum amount of points for 1 completed challenge is 0,1 points.

ABOUT VIP's:

Yes, there will be VIP's, if you will want to get PRIORITY assistance from US to help you to code, plus event Blue-Ray disc, and VIP badge. (VIP passports will be available to order from mid-June, 2014)

P.S. Despite you are VIP or FREE ticket holder, everyone, depending or available resources, will get help and assistance in hackathons and media day.