[LRUG] Londinium MMXII Hackathon [Announcement & Questions]

[Makoto Inoue]

Hi LRUG.

I'd like to let you know that I am organising an Olympics themed Hackathon
called "Londinium MMXII Hackathon", 28th~29th July in London (venue to be
decided).

http://mmxiihack.org

I haven't opened up the registration, but please track us at
http://lanyrd.com/2012/mmxiihack/ if you are interested.

I know there are already olympic themed hackathon happened(
http://lanyrd.com/2012/winterhackathon/), or scheduled to happen(
http://lanyrd.com/guides/large-sports-event-in-capital-city-of-the-uk-in-the-year-mmxii/),
but ours is unique because it will be held during Olympic game (I am
assuming the most of us haven't/couldn't get tickets so there should be no
conflicts of schedule...) so there should be a real time data you can play
with during the Hackathon.

Now it's time for questions/favours.

I am currently trying to partner up with companies/organisations which
provides relevant api/dataset for the Olympics (I think playing with
interesting technologies/dataset is more rewarding than getting prizes).
I am very keen to get tfl.gov.uk on board, but I don't know anyone from the
organisation (especially the tech team behind their API). If any of LRUG
members know, could you introduce me?  If you also know any other
organisations that can provide interesting dataset, I'd love to hear,too.

I will try to attend LRUG tomorrow, so happy to chat in the pub.

Thanks.

Makoto
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