Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) will travel to 10 cities all around the world for its World Hack competition starting from August 23 to October 1. The ten cities on tour are Austin, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Berlin, Taipei, Jakarta, Bangalore, Barcelona, Vancouver, Warsaw, and Moscow. The World Hack days in Taipei, Jakarta, and Bangalore will start on September 11th, 13th, and 17th respectively.
According to the World Hack website (spotted by The Next Web), each city-stop is a day-long coding event where developers are given time to work on new social apps – solo or in groups – with Facebook engineers on hand to support and answer questions. The topics that will be covered at the event include Facebook APIs, mobile SDKs, and Open Graph.
Facebook didn’t mention what the prizes are, but it is the biggest social networking website in the world, so developers needn’t worry about a lack of goodies. You can learn about the previous Facebook hack event here.
The competition is also a great opportunity for developers to meet up and connect with more like-minded people. Should you pass the registration process, the price for each ticket is around $25 for each city event. Facebook will be filtering the participants, so no-one is guaranteed access [1].
Of course, if you’re interested in hackathons, we have our own coming up in October in Bandung, Indonesia. We hope to see you there!
Head to the official World Hack homepage to register or learn more.
[Via: The Next Web]
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To get a clearer idea about the process, I tried to register myself there: The first step is the usual data input (even though Facebook should already have our data anyway!); the second step is to let Facebook know how experienced you are at building on Facebook, iOS, Android platforms, and for the web. And that’s it! Facebook will put you on the waiting list and will notify you if you make the grade. ↩
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