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I have always been so jealous of cool tech companies and startups (e.g. Facebook) that organize events in which many coders sit together and code their project ideas for all-day long or so– usually called hackathon.
Hack at Microsoft
First you might think that Microsoft is a juggernaut company but usually that is not the case. Microsoft is a company full of hacker-spirited coders (maybe not as much as Facebook or Google) and there are many Microsoft employees do side projects in their spare times and sometimes they open-source these. In fact, Microsoft even has an internal group called The Garage organization that has “thousands” of members and organizes many social coding events that project ideas can find contributors and new projects are incubated there. It is not always coders but marketing and program manager guys are also interested in contributing these projects with their skills in their fields.
This year I’m organizing an intern hackathon day which is going to be held at Microsoft campus starting 10pm today and will end tomorrow (Saturday) 10pm (24 hours!) with the help of The Garage. Read More →