Free Hackation in New York to work on your side project

by waxman • 14 years ago

34 13 14 years ago

If I weren't already running a company, I'd jump on this in a heartbeat. Spending a weekend working on people-matching algorithms sounds like a blast.

danellis• 14 years ago

One of the items on the application form is "I am a US citizen". Is that a requirement for their Hackations?

alain_gilbert• 14 years ago

I'm also interested by the answer of this question !

nottombrown2• 14 years ago

Absolutely not a requirement. Awesome Non US citizens should apply.

tehwebguy• 14 years ago

Looks like they updated this to say that it's NOT required

papercruncher• 14 years ago

Who owns the IP that may come out of this?

crazypyro2• 14 years ago

It would be pretty shitty if they said you can work on your own projects and then demanded that they own the work you do. They definitely should clarify this on the site though....

shunter• 14 years ago

I'm guessing that the restriction on location is mainly related to keeping the travel costs down. I 'm mainly just curious as to why the US Citizenship is a hard requirement, particularly if I'm accepted to work on my own stuff.

crazypyro2• 14 years ago

Just in case you didn't see, they responded that this was not a hard requirement.

JulianWasTaken• 14 years ago

Cool. Developer interaction always sounds good to me, so, signed myself up. Let's see what happens.

nottombrown2• 14 years ago

I added a clarification to the application that US citizenship is not required.

intellegacy• 14 years ago

This is pretty cool. Although I wonder what "grouper" is getting out of this. And why grouper is willing to part with good money. It seems wasteful to me.

Geekette• 14 years ago

Sounds like a great way to screen, invite, carry out an extended interview and potentially hire/acquihire selected targets. :)

Free Hackation in New York to work on your side project

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