London hack day is going to be awesome
I am mentally and physically exhausted right now. I woke up early this morning (8am) after a long night (out until 3am), headed up to Alexandra Palace with a few other Yahoo!’s and got to work with volunteers from Yahoo! UK and the BBC. We helped out for about 5 hours and had to leave to get to a prior engagement (pub) while the remaining volunteers stuck around and finished the job.
After spending some time at the pub relaxing with folks, we headed back up to the palace to inspect the handy work. Fucking…brilliant. The place looks amazing. After the Sunnyvale hack day, I figured it was going to be hard to top that experience. I was totally wrong. This hack day is going to be yet another one of those events in my life that leaves a permanent mark. I’d say this one will be difficult to top, but I said that last time and now look what they’ve done.
Of course, this doesn’t happen without the amazing people who are working on the event. I feel overwhelmed getting stuff ready for my talk…but I just have to worry about covering my share of an hour time slot. These people have been busting their asses for months and now, with the event just around the corner, they’re up against it to pull off what is sure to go down as one of the most epic events ever to take place at Ally Pally. If you’re at the event and you see a volunteer…thank them. You owe those people for the experience of a lifetime.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have my own hackathon getting underway. I still don’t have my demo app together for my talk tomorrow, I should figure out my gameplan for my portion of the talk and I need to transfer source code to 100 USB thumb drives. If I’m lucky, there will be some sleep somewhere in the cards for me before I have to leave at 8:45am to get up to the palace.
Update: I shot a very short video of the interior of the palace. As I said…fucking…brilliant.
