{"id":8114,"date":"2012-10-29T08:58:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2012-11-01T21:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T05:05:20","slug":"veteran-hack-a-thon-this-veterans-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/veteran-hack-a-thon-this-veterans-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Hack-a-thon this Veterans day weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Veterans day is coming and what better way to celebrate?\u00a0 Doing a hack-a-thon of course!\u00a0 Ok, well, perhaps this is not your normal parade and BBQ kind of thing, but VetsinTech is having a hack-a-thon to get returning vets immersed in the tech community.\u00a0 There will be a class on Friday the 9th, covering into covering intro to iOS programming, so not knowing how to code is no excuse.<\/p>\n

The VetsinTech origination is focused on connecting newly retuning Vets to training, hiring and for those who are more bold, setting up their own companies!\u00a0 The event will take place over the veterans weekend, from the 9th to the 11th.\u00a0 Come by!<\/p>\n

Below is some information from their website.<\/p>\n

What:<\/strong> Vets in Tech Startup Veterans Hackathon\/Weekend \u2013 Co-chair Craig Newmark of craigslist and board member IAVA \u2013 Iraq\/Afghanistan Veteran\u2019s of America
\nWhen:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday, November 9th to Sunday, November 11th.
\nWhere:<\/strong> Adobe Systems , SF \u2013 601 Townsend Street
\nRegistration Link:<\/strong> click here<\/a><\/p>\n

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100 copies of The Lean Startup\u00a0book are being donated by Eric Ries to the first 100 veterans who register for this event!<\/p>\n

In this two-day event the tech community in SF will come together to support our returning Iraq\/Afghan veterans.<\/strong>\u00a0 Teams of approximately 5-10 people will be formed with a variety of skills -the vets can have the idea, help with business plan, marketing or just sit in to audit\/participate for educational purposes \u2013 coding skills are NOT required.\u00a0 Our tech community is encouraged to come (and to code) and recognize the unique perspective our returning veterans will have to offer.<\/p>\n

What is it:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Vets in Tech Startup Veteran weekend is a two-day business and app development competition.<\/strong> The event\u2019s goal is to invite returning veterans to be part of a team focused on building successful startups around the next generation social, mobile, gaming, ecommerce, health or other applications and to foster a community of (veteran) entrepreneurship.\u00a0 Our veterans can add a unique perspective to many of these types of applications.<\/p>\n

Registered idea generators are given 1 minute to pitch an app concept to a tech audience on day one.<\/strong> Attending veterans, engineers, designers, marketing and business people as well as our team of glorious mentors preselect the best ideas that will be developed into applications during the weekend. Teams are formed around the most promising projects and the competition begins.<\/p>\n

What to expect:<\/strong><\/h3>\n