We are happy to announce that we will be holding our third annual IronSheep geo-hackathon at this year's annual AAG conference in Tampa, Florida.
The event seeks to mimic the format of the “Iron Chef” television
series and challenges participants (grouped into teams with members from
diverse backgrounds and skill sets) to produce meaningful analysis and fun,
evocative map mash-ups from the same sets of user-generated, geo-coded data
within a four hour time frame. The goal is to provide a semi-structured
environment where participants can socialize and work on a fun, yet socially
meaningful project. Participants will be drawn from academic, industry and
artistic communities from around the world.
Interested? We have a
larger venue (thanks to Tampa Bay Wave) this year than in years past and so
encourage all to come. We do ask,
however, that you pre-register so we have an idea of attendance.
There will be prizes, there will be trophies, there will be
gratuitous sheep and use of the doge meme.
Date: Tuesday April 8, 2014
Time: 5 pm to 9 pm
Bring: your laptop, software, friends, lovers,
geographers, programmers, geo-geeks, ewes, rams and lambs
Don't bring:
wolves, Chupacabra or mint sauce as we have learned last year they are
hazardous (or offensive) to sheep.
We will provide food, beverages, data, internet, prizes and sparkling
commentary. And perhaps even present one of the floating sheep collective as a sheep. But don't count on that last point.