Welcome to Yahoo! Open Hack Europe 2011

in Bucharest, Romania.

 

Schedule, Helpful Tips, FAQ,  Checklist, Join-a-Team, How to Present a Hack

Event Info, Shuttle Info, Hotel Information, Hack Ideas, Kids on Computers, FrontPage,

Timisoara Bus Sign-up List

 

Thank you Bucharest! Thank you hackers! Yahoo! <3s Romania! 

 

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make this a great Open Hack event. Here's a list of the winners:

 

 

Best Messenger Hack 

Yahoo Social Programming

 

A Eclipse plug-in based on Yahoo Messenger API that enables programmers around the world to share their code in real-time.

 

Corabia Nebunilor Members:

Cristi Staicu

 Liana Lupsa

Sandra Serbanescu

 Horia Radu

 

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Best Yahoo! product enhancement

 

TheBatMail

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V7HfypLod0

 

 

TheBatMail is a web app (Yahoo Mail App) that integrates directly into Yahoo! Mail. Our app has 3 main featurers or hacks if you want: threaded discussions, social discovery and email editing.

 

The BatMen Members:

Lucian Todea

Constantin Tovisi

Mircea Soaica

Stefan Rusu

 

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Best Hack for Social Good

Map of Deforested Areas of Romania

 

 A program that makes possible the identification of forest cuts, working with satellite images. This application will be used by the general public (crowd sourced) and checked by the organizers (environmental NGO) in order to build the first public inventory of deforested areas in the country. The complete report drawn from the application will be used to notify the authorities, and the media, so that the situation be checked and cleared up officially.

 

We plant good deeds in Romania! Members:

Emilian Losneanu

Dragos Barbu

Liana Buzea

Florin Buga

 

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Best Mashup

Ymotion

 

Ymotion helps you get the an idea about the mood of your audience at a presentation or in a touristic place by leveraging face detection and face gestures recognition techniques.

 

The Guys Members:

Andrei Blaj

Lucian Hutanu

Alexandru Rada

Catalin Morosan

 

 

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Best Local Hack

Tourist Guide

 

Tourist guide finds the most popular objectives to be visited. The popularity is based on the number of pictures from flickr, foursquare, gowalla and panoramio near the place the visitor is. The application also finds the best route between the objectives and shows it.

 

 Javascript Team Members:

Gabriel Munteanu

Alexandru Bardas

Alexandru Topliceanu

Marian Posaceanu

 

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Take a Hike

Best BOSS Hack

 

Team: Plan 9

 Alexandru Badiu

 

A tool to help people see who they're voting for. It tracks movement through the political partys for the current politicians, shows stats and other useful information.

 

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 The Yahoo! Farm - "Cloud Data in Your BedRoom"

Hacker's Choice/People's Choice

 

 

The RoboFun Team Members:

Viorel Spinu

Constantin Craciun

Ionut Cotoi

Alexandru Stefanica

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/draket/5722221119/

 

This farm house uses a series of APIS to tell the user the weather, if there are new emails, and how many friends are online. The windmill and backdrop depend on the weather, the sheep are the number of online friends, and the lighted tree represents the number of new emails.

 

 

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Best in Show: w/3 hacks presented

Alexandru Badiu

 

1)- Take a Hike (see above)

2)- Quick info - Quick info uses Yahoo BOSS and YQL to quickly pull information about a particular subject from various sources.

3)- Playlist-O-Matic - Generates music playlists based on your various inputs

 

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Welcome Hackers

 

We're just days away from Open Hack Europe! We're excited to meet you all on Saturday. Be on the lookout for an email coming to you later today from Anil with some important information to read through. We have some awesome surprises in store for you this weekend. We are busy getting ready, but feel free to contact us in the mean time with any questions you might have. We'll do our best to get back to you as soon as possible.

 

You can also follow @openhackday and @ydn for more information or search #openhackeu.

 

Stacy Milman 11/05/2011

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The Yahoo! Open Hack Europe event is a fun event, and to ensure this, we have a number of games that Hackers can play with during the event. We will have a Wii, an X-Box Kinnect, a Pool Table, Foosball, Ping Pong and lots more. 

 

Anil Patel 27/04/2011

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We have sorted out some discounted hotel rates if you are traveling coming to the Open Hack event from outside of Bucharest. Find out more here.  

 

Anil Patel 13/04/2011

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Thank you all for registering to attend the Yahoo! Open Hack Europe event in Bucharest. If you have received an email granting you access as a writer to this site, then you have been accepted to attend the event on 14th-15th May 2011.

 

This wiki is an informal channel for us to reach out to all the hackers and send you critical information such as agenda updates, technology updates, FAQ, Hacker Checklist... We will be posting all our communications here as well. Please use this site as your collaboration tool with us and with the other fellow hackers.

 

Please use hash tag #openhackeu for Twitter

 

Please check out this video from the Open Hack event in London 2007

 

 

London Hack Day Video from Tom Coates on Vimeo.

 

A big thank you to the following organizations and company's who have helped us make this event happen!