Activity
24h Mobile Hackathon: Re-Type Europe´s Source Code

The Campus Party Europe' Mobile Hackathon is a 24 h event where developers can create a fresh mobile application. You will have a great opportunity to show the biggest tech companies and the European scene what you can create on your own or with your team within a short period of time. There is no specific API, programming language or framework we focus on, everything's accepted as long as it's mobile. And if you need help there will be an entourage of well-known speakers and cutting-edge developers around to help you out!

Curious? More details about about the rules, the jury and prizes here.

Hackathon
Google Chrome Extensions for (Data) Transparency & Control

You are invited! Campus Party, a week-long technology festival taking place in Berlin and thousands of hackers, gamers and geeks will follow the call to the former Tempelhof Airport - and you could be one of them! Google is a proud sponsor of Campus Party and we invite you to be part of it by participating in our Chrome Extension Hackathon.

Don’t just talk - Take action! Everyone is talking about privacy, data security and transparency but you, as a developer, can go one step further: In conjunction with Campus Party’s headline to “Rewrite the source code of Europe” we will host a 24 hours Hackathon to develop Chrome Extensions that enable users to better understand and control what is happening within their browser, what data is being transferred to where and how to prevent unwanted transmissions.

Chrome’s own developers will be on site, helping you start off and through the rough patches, if necessary. They also provide feedback and suggest improvements for your extension so you’ll get the best possible result in the 24 hours.

For the win! Everyone who participates in our Hackathon is a winner already because making the web faster, easier to understand or more transparent is a win for everyone!

But we know that can’t be all so we have a very special price for the winning teams: You’ll get an invitation to Google’s German engineering office in Munich with all expenses paid. After an office tour you’ll get to meet the Chrome team. But that’s not all. The very developers who created the APIs your extension uses will help you to improve and polish it in a one-day-workshop. Optimize your extension to the max and get ready because there’s even more:

Your team will be invited to come to Berlin in October and present your extension at the “DatenDialog”, Google’s biggest conference in Germany on privacy and personal data management with high level guests from politics, non-profit organisations and education. Get on stage and present your way to take control when surfing the web. You’ll be invited to stay and contribute to the whole event, discuss with experts, share your experiences and learn something new.

Special treat for early birds! So you want to be part of the event? Great! To invite you, keep you updated and for better planning we’d like you to pre-register via this form. Early birds catch the worm but early pre-registrations get special Chrome swag. Be one of the first 100 to score it!

Activity
YOUR IDEA. YOUR APP. YOUR PARTY – Microsoft Coding Space

Join us August 21 through August 26 at the Microsoft Coding Space in front of the Pythagoras Developers Stage to build your own Windows 8 Apps, meet our experts and learn new skills.

Bring your laptop and your ideas – we’ll get you started: our daily training schedule starts with introductory sessions in the morning and continues with deep dive sessions in the afternoon, where you will learn the ins and outs of app development with C# and XAML as well as JavaScript and HTML5.

But wait, there’s more: talk to our experts, get answers to your questions and make use of our 1 on 1 learning sessions.

Looking for a place to work on your app and get help from our experts? Come join us and get connected!

For more details, go to www.techstudent.de/campus-party

24h Mobile Hackathon participants: we got you covered! If you have any questions, just ask for Kai.

Challenge
Firefox OS Challenge

The challenge consists in the development of apps for Firefox OS. This is a new web mobile platform based on HTML5, where the developers have the best from the web, with the power of the native applications. The challenge aims to gather the best applications from web and mobile developers attending Campus Party Europe.

The challenge aims to foster the development of apps for the new HTML5 mobile plaform, Firefox OS. The developers, grouped by teams, have to program an operative (runnable) application using HTML5 Apis to access to the browser capabilities but also, accessing to the device capabilities. In addition, apps can integrate internet webservices to extended features. Every will have access to a Firefox OS device to deploy and test their apps. In addition, last version of the emulated Firefox OS is also available to speed up the development.

Speaker: Andrés Leonardo Martínez has a master degree in Computer Science by the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Currently he is a BlueVia Developer Program Engineer in Telefonica Digital UK. Since 2007 till September 2010 he was an OSS specialist in Telefónica R&D. During the period from 1998 till 2002 he was an engineer of R&D department of Teldat a network infrastructure maker and from 2002 till 2007 he was an active member of the research group GyC/Libresoft of the Rey Juan Carlos University, where he was a teacher.

Challenge
EyeEm Challenge

EyeEm is a photo sharing & discovery app that lets you take photos together with possibly the best, most inspiring and creatively mind-blowing community out there. The best thing about it: You can be part of it! In this workshop your host Severin will introduce you to the tips & tricks behind taking awesome photos with your mobile cellular telephonic camera (also known as mobile phone) and then branch out on 5 individual missions to capture life, love and drama all over Campus Party. In the end we'll review the photos taken during the challenge and together decide on the winners of the grand EyeEm prize.

www.eyeem.com, @EyeEm

EyeEm is a photo sharing and discovery app that connects you with like-minded people through the photos you take. Based on where you are, what you're doing and what you like, you'll stumble upon new albums that are filled with photos from your friends and people around the world. It's a whole new way of visually exploring what’s around you.

Coordinator: Severin Matusek (@severin07) shoots from the hip for over 10 years. Taking care of the well-being of EyeEm's global community, he previously published photo books for Lomography, hijacked cameras and gave numerous workshops on topics such as snapshot photography, tram riding or the history of philosophy.

Competition
Sumo Robots

Two autonomous robots, lighter than their human versions, wrestling on a court following a very similar regulation to the traditional Japanese sport. Same as in the real-life sumo competitions, the robotics version demands the robots to be efficient tracing and pushing the adversary until one of them is defeated by falling outside the circle or even the court. This will be a competition to try out your abilities building and programming robots. Don't miss this one!

Competition
Your Robot

The best Campus Party robots have a great opportunity to show all their skills. No matter the type of robot, hardware or software you use. We are very sure your robot has its own specials functionalities.

Show your bot and how your robo-creation can go beyond the others!  

Activity
EyeEm Photo Hack Day

Living in the age of the connected camera, a photo hack can change the lives of a million people with the mere click on "Download this App". But how do you create a photo app? How do you hack APIs for the good of mankind? And how is this all being done in merely 8 hours? In this 8 hour hackathon, Ramzi Rizk, co-founder and CTO of EyeEm, will give you an introduction to some of his favorite apps and APIs, providing inspiration for your own hacks. At the end of the day your hacks are going to be presented on stage. Participants should have some experience in coding or design. However, if you don't know how to code but got a smashing idea for a photo app, this is the place to meet a dev who can make it become reality.

The prize: an invitation to our grand Photo Hack Day (22/23 September, Berlin), giving you the chance to present your hack to some of the world's leading expert's in the photo and tech industry.

Follow @EyeEmAPI for updates
Pre-register at www.eyeem.com/developers

EyeEm is a photo sharing and discovery app that connects you with like-minded people through the photos you take. Based on where you are, what you're doing and what you like, you'll stumble upon new albums that are filled with photos from your friends and people around the world. It's a whole new way of visually exploring what’s around you.

Speaker: Ramzi Rizk (@ramz) is co-founder and CTO of EyeEm, a photo sharing & discovery app based in Berlin. Before co-founding the company in early 2011 he was a technical projects lead at a software lab and a PhD candidate and lecturer at the department of Information Systems at Humboldt University.