Registration Opens For Online Hack.Summit
Written by Sue Gee   
Thursday, 13 November 2014

A developer conference with a difference is scheduled to take place December 1-4. Where is it? Anywhere and everywhere. How much does it cost? You choose and your donation goes to supporting programming non profits.

According to event organizer Ed Roman:

hack.summit() is one hundred percent online, making it completely accessible to developers all over the world.  This means that it can operate on an unprecedented magnitude, both in attendee capacity and in the pedigree of its participants: almost all of our speakers would be a keynote at another event, but they’ve all rallied around our nonprofit partners to support the broader programming community.

 

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The virtual conference has been organized by hack.hands(), of which Roman is the newly appointed CEO, This startup founded by Forest Good, Geraldo Ramos and Assis Silva provides affordable on-demand mentoring using video chat, screen share and scripting collaboration.

For this latest initiative, a four-day event at which thirty programming language creators, open source contributors and "thought leaders" will contribute their expertise, virtual conferencing technology will be provided by Crowdcast.io using Google Hangouts. 

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Many of them are well known faces and the list  of names of speakers reads like a veritable whos's who:  

  • Tom Chi (co creator Google Glass)
  • Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language)
  • David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails)
  • Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell)
  • Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS)
  • Alex Gaynor (Director, Python Software Foundation, and core committer to Django)
  • Sarah Allen (Presidential Innovation Fellow, led development for many Adobe products)
  • Gilad Bracha (co author of the Java Language Specification)
  • Kent Beck (creator of Extreme Programming, created Test Driven Development, co created Agile, author of 9 books)
  • Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki, contributed to Extreme Programming, co author of Design Patterns)
  • Hampton Catlin (creator of Sass, Haml, m.wikipedia.org, book author)
  • Matei Zaharia (creator of Apache Spark)
  • Melody Meckfessel (Google Director of Engineering)
  • Jon Skeet (the top answerer on StackOverflow)
  • Scott Hanselman (author of multiple books)
  • Jeff Haynie (founder of Appcelerator)
  • Ryan Bubinski (founder of Codecademy)
  • Aaron Skonnard (founder of Pluralsight)
  • Floyd Marinescu (founder of InfoQ)
  • Steve Newcomb (founder of Famo.us)
  • Orion Henry (founder of Heroku)
  • Janet Wiener (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert)
  • Scott Chacon (CIO, Github)
  • Chad Fowler (CTO, Wunderlist, well known programming educator and blogger)
  • Salil Deshpande (open source investor titan)
  • Hadi Partovi (founder of Code.org, was in charge of Internet Explorer, advisor to Dropbox and Facebook)
  • Rebecca Parsons (CTO at Thoughtworks)
  • Qi Lu (Executive vice president of Microsoft’s Applications and Services Group)
  • Chris Richardson (Java Champion, book author, founder of CloudFoundry)
  • Bram Cohen (Inventor of Bittorrent)

As yet there isn't an agenda or any other details but that hardly matters as there is bound to be something of interest and this isn't going to involve you in any travel, overnight expenses or cost you big bucks - just whatever you decide to pay for your ticket. 

All the proceeds of ticket sales will go to a coding non-profit including Code.org, Code the Change, Girls in Code and many others. To get a ticket, just visit http://hacksummit.org, select the organisation you'd like to support and then set the value of the donation. If you are unable to donate you can also receive a free ticket by spreading the word via Twitter and Facebook. 

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More Information

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