New Delhi: Yahoo India announced the sixth edition of Yahoo Hack India which will be held in Hyderabad on July 13 and 14, 2013. This will be Yahoo's first hack event in India hosted outside Bangalore, where Yahoo has its second largest R&D center.
Due to the overwhelming response from developers across India in the last 5 years, Yahoo decided to expand its hack events to cover more Indian cities over the next few years. This year will see two external hack events by Yahoo in India, one in Hyderabad and another in Bangalore later in the year.
Yahoo Hack India brings together programmers, developers, designers from across the industry, start ups and students from the top tech universities in India. Over 1,000 developers from across 20 states in India signed up to participate in Yahoo Hack in Hyderabad, of which 250 best hackers have been selected after an entry-level coding challenge.
These hackers will now participate in the two-day event which brings forth a series of technical workshops, followed by a nonstop 24-hour coding Hackathon.
Yahoo will introduce developers to the popular technologies and tools from the Open Web, including Yahoo's YUI , YQL and Mojito, as well as geo-location and Flickr APIs (Application Programmable Interface).
The participants will be able to brainstorm and build prototypes using these technologies during the official hacking period. All the entries (hacks) will be reviewed at the end of the 24-hour hacking period. Subsequently, the shortlisted entries will be shown to a panel of judges to determine the winning hacks.
The first Yahoo Hack in India was hosted in 2007, and was attended by 180 developers from in and around Bangalore. By last year, this number had swelled to over 800 hackers.
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