Reflecting back (and from the inside), I don’t think that Yahoo! Open Hack Day could have gone any better. It blew past my personal best-case expectations. The biggest problem is where to take it from here. But that’s one of those good problems. 🙂
There are a lot of good and bad things about big organizations, and in the day-to-day, a lot of people can get hung up about the latter, but the organizational hacking is to figure out how to leverage and finesse all those positives with the right vision and approach. (hooray Chad and Bradley!)
- Yahoo Hack Day is on! – Gordon had an introspective writeup
- All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize – Mike, who MC’d has a writeup of the results. Blogging in Motion, the winning hack, was definitely the right pick (sewn hardware hacked in a day!)
- Flickr: hackday06 – almost 3200 photos tagged hackday06. And more than a third of that, over 1000 photos tagged to the Upcoming event. (wow, that’s a huge surprise to me)
- Too many blog posts to mention. I’ve been tracking over the weekend with technorati, icerocket, and blogpulse
Some more awesome writeups from Yahoos:
- Yahoo Open Hack Day: Hell Yes! – Bradley has a great writeup about the whole thing
- “We can’t control the puppets but we thank you for your understanding” – Yahoo Hack Day ’06 – Ian Kennedy also puts some more of “what it was about” into words
- Beck Plays Surprise Show at Yahoo! Hack Day – Schiller, DHTML Ninja and apparently mega-Beck fan (sorry we had to keep you in the dark, but it all worked out in the end 🙂 has an awesome review and more links
- HackDay: Thoughts on how Yahoo got there and what it all means – Susan is “speculating” but gets a lot of it right on. My personal favorite naming option for “Open Hack Day” was Hacking Man. Maybe next time try to use the Volleyball court to make a gigantic burning yahoo-guy bonfire