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HackMIT - Hackathon for students from any school, Oct 4-6

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From someone who has to pass through Stata on the way to work every day, oh god.

You registered an account just to say that?

You checked my user page just because I wrote a comment?

I'll be attending from Emory University in Atlanta. I don't know any local developers and so I'll be looking for a team to join. If anyone wants to put together an HN team my email is denverrayburn(at)gmail(dot)com.

Will this be like a normal startup weekend where the teams form there, or will people already have their teams together?

I'm debating attending this, but I'm in Ontario so it'd be a full day of travel each way to get there. I also don't know many local developers I could coerce into attending. Any students from HN looking for a team?

edit: I should point out, email is in my profile or alanctgardner(at)gmail(dot)com

Sure! I'm trying to work out travel from LA at the moment. Shoot me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com.

I'm also coming from LA. My Email is mwein2009 (at) gmail.com. I'm partnering with another person so we have room for up to 2 more.

There's a bunch of us going from UWaterloo.

I know a lot of people flying out of Toronto...there's also the Michigan buses that may be passing through canada.

Well, I'm a humble uOttawa student, but I did get accepted to Waterloo ;)

I'm curious as to why didn't you come here then!

I visited Waterloo-Kitchener a few times before choosing, but it never felt very interesting as a place to live. People diss Ottawa for being boring, but we have a pretty good number of attractions, and it's really easy to get around without a car. Montreal makes a nice weekend trip if you want to go someplace more exciting.

Academically I do feel like I missed out on a higher quality education / more prestigious degree from Waterloo. I have to do a lot of legwork to make my co-op program work and (hopefully) graduate on time next year. Ottawa also doesn't (yet) have the startup/developer culture Waterloo has, but I think we're working on it.

On the plus side, I did all 5 of my co-op terms without leaving Ottawa, met my girlfriend of three years and have a sweet job coming out of school next year. I wouldn't have done anything differently, but it is interesting to consider.

Yeah right now Im giving the pitch to the parents on why I should borrow there car to drive down from Ottawa to do this.

Would you be interested in carpooling? I can obviously chip in for gas, but I've also got my G-class license, I could take a few legs of the trip. Get in touch if you're interested, it'd just be cool to meet more Ottawa devs as well :)

We're thinking about putting together a team from Halifax. Hopefully worth the drive!

No love for the grad students (who should probably be working on their thesis anyways). And for those of you out there...thesis while working full time is not an easy task.

Very cool though, might stop by. Is there someone who might work as a press contact?

Email team@hackmit.org and we'll help you out :)

I'm thinking about heading up from the Baltimore/DC area. I was going to go up as a single but if there is anyone from the area or looking to form a team drop me a line at jhavila2(at)jhu(dot)edu or the email in my profile.

Try asking at https://www.facebook.com/events/1374512966106958/ – someone else might be in your situation.

I think I'm going with a bunch of other people from UofM - we'll be filling 1 (or more) tour bus(es)! Thanks for organizing this, and I can't wait to come hack in October!

Or you could head down to Detroit and help reinvent government in Michigan. The state is releasing API's on five themes: jobs, tourism, safety, veterans and foster kids.

http://www.codemichigan.com

Code Michigan should sponsor a prize at MHacks!

I will be attending and doubt there will be enough local interest. Send me an e-mail if you would like to set up a team. trhlavat(at)millersville(dot)edu

Ishaan from HackMIT here. Regarding interest, in the past week, we've gotten over 1500 signups –– more than we can handle, to be honest. But there's definitely no lack of interest.

1500!? Is this going to be the largest hackathon ever?

Unfortunately, attendance to something like this won't be anywhere near 100% of the people who express interest. Especially considering the prestige of MIT and the publicity, I bet a lot of people are considering it but ultimately won't be able to go because it's really far and a long event around midterms time.

For reference (orders of magnitude different, I know), I organized a local hackathon and heard from probably 100 'interested' people. We ended up netting 30 registrations, which was the cap for our venue, but I only actually turned 2 people away. So 2/3 of the developers that I spoke to and emailed personally couldn't make it, and that was in the city they already live in.

Does this mean some people will be turned away if turnout exceeds capacity?

My jaw just dropped! juo@millersville

I'm near DC, seriously considering going if I could find someone else interested.

I did t=0, if you can, I highly recommend hitting up an mit hackathon.

I'm coming from way out in the boonies (South Dakota State).

I'm a Carleton CS student in Ottawa and thinking of going.

I'm a sponsor and will be there all weekend. Come say hi!

What company?

Bloomberg -- I'm planning on setting up the market data API for anyone that wants to use it as part of what they're working on.

I'll be there from Ohio State! smith7018@gmail.com

I'll be there for sure. (jon@jonhaas.it)

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