Yahoo! opens Hack Day to developers, webmasters and publishers

We’ve written about Hack Days at Yahoo! before. These 24-hour, problem-solving soirees challenge Yahoo! developers to flex their creative muscles, come up with novel ideas, and create hacks that turn thought into action. Yahoo! users often benefit, as today’s Hack Day hacks become tomorrow’s Yahoo! features.

Until now, Yahoo! Hack Days were open only to Yahoos, but that’s about to change. On Sept. 29 and 30, we’re holding our first ever public Hack Day at our Sunnyvale, California campus.

Friday, Sept 29 will include a number of hacking workshops where participants will be able to learn with several of our star engineers, UI gurus and Javascript junkies. In addition, attendees will hear from the folks at Flickr, del.icio.us, Messenger, Maps and Search.
 

Then we’ll start a-hacking, playing through all night until Saturday. Bring your skills, your ideas and, of course, your PJs, and be prepared to share your best stuff. We’ll bring the pizza.

For information on how you can get involved in Hack Day, visit HackDay.org.

Not able to attend Yahoo! Hack Day? No worries. We’re sending our top news hacks to cover the event and will report on all the cool stuff right here on the blog.

—Michael Mattis, Blog Hack