Submissions should be single-paged web applications

To help you build a winning app we will introduce you to the latest cutting edge tools so that you can easily deploy your own single page app with a website backend, fully hosted in the cloud.

Here are some suggested frameworks you may want to use for building your app:

• Yahoo's YUI API: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/2/

• Meteor API: http://www.meteor.com/

• Node.js: http://nodejs.org/

Location

Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley Campus.

23 S. Akron Road, Mt View, CA [ map , detailed directions ]

Schedule

(All times are in Pacific time)

Friday, Apr 12

• 7pm: Registration begins

• 8pm: Introduction on what this hackathon is about, the theme (client side apps where all the app logic is written in JavaScript), discussion of rules and prizes. 

• 8:15pm: Presentation from Yahoo and Meteor.

• 9:15pm: Start team building, idea pitching.

• 10pm: Doors close. Participants go home and can code at home.

Saturday, Apr 13

• 8am: doors open, hacking begins

• 4pm: Submissions due

• 4pm - 7pm: Demos, judging

• 7pm: Awards

• 10pm: Doors close.

Register on Eventbrite

• - Quality of the idea
  
• - Implementation and execution of the idea
  
• - Impact and value of the idea