Participants donate IT equipment to help create informatics labs for under-privileged children in Romania
Yahoo! Open Hack Europe took place in Bucharest on May 14th and 15th and united more than 300 developers from global locations, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Serbia, Sweden and Romania. Open Hack events take place several times annually in locations around the world and provide a venue for developers to realize their creativity by helping them develop innovative new products which leverage the entire Yahoo! digital media platform.
Hackers had the oportunity to search, under one roof, for innovative solutions to themes proposed by Yahoo! at the Romanian event. They were be able to hack using an extended range of Yahoo!’s leading products, tools and content, such as BOSS, Updates, YQL, YUI and Hadoop.
Developers have been invited to participate in Open Hack Europe by the Yahoo! Developer Network(YDN), the company’s central source for developers and partners to leverage the Yahoo! platform in their own applications.
At the event, YDN is also collaborating with Kids on Computers – a non-profit organization, that focuses on providing underprivileged children with IT equipment and computer training. During the weekend event, developers asked to donate used computer equipment and volunteer their time to youth of Romania who have limited access to IT.
“Romanian hackers introduced kids to the world of technology!” says Stormy Peters, President of Kids on Computers. “Kids on Computers is really excited to be working with Yahoo! EU Open Hack in Bucharest. We’re looking forward to seeing the happy faces and having those kids join us all at the next Open Hack day in a few years!”
The event in Bucharest was the fourteenth in the five- year history of Yahoo! Open Hacks and the first organized in Eastern Europe. Raymie Stata, Chief Technology Officer at Yahoo! joined by other senior Yahoo! execs and developers, including Todd Hay, Head of YDN and Douglas Crockford, known for popularising the JavaScript JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) language.
The event organized by MCI UK, with local partner Premier Destinations Event Management.
