Calling Austin software developers!

If you have enjoyed attending the EAST Studio Tour (or other studio tours around the country) here is your chance to give back. For two days over the weekend of February 15th, 2014, we’ll be hosting a hackathon at the GoLab co-work space in downtown Austin to build an app to help artists list their works, and help people more effectively share the works with their network of art-appreciating friends and family around the globe.

A mobile app would solve a few problems. Austin’s community of artists make our city a much more inspiring and fun place to live. But unfortunately, Austin’s population of artists probably exceeds the size of the art-buying market. A mobile app that enabled people to tweet photos of art out to their network could help artists reach a larger market of potential buyers.

Another benefit of a mobile app is to enable artists in out-of-the-way locations to get their work seen by more people–leveraging the people who make the effort to see individual studios that are not in an art-studio mecca.

The goal of the hackathon is to create a mobile app. Extra points for a cross browser solution (Cordova… hint, hint…) or perhaps an HTML5 application. The APIs and sample data will be provided to the app developers (more detail to be posted here soon). The registration / authentication system will also be given.  

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Are you interested in becoming a sponsor? Great! Email will@gluu.org

Eligibility

All are welcome and eligible to participate in this challenge.

Requirements

All app submissions should follow these requirements:

  1. Interface for artist to take a photo of the artwork, enter summary info, and upload
  2. An EAST attendee can find an artist by searching or by entering the site number
  3. After finding a specific art work, the attendee can push the artwork to her social networks
  4. The app should be able to generate a QR code, which the artist can print and affix next to their art to facilitate people posting the artwork.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$5,610 in prizes
SXSW Interactive Badge
4 winners

Winning team members will each receive a SXSW Interactive Badge (up to four total.)

Art from local Austin artists
2 winners

Runner-ups will receive their choice of paintings donated by local Austin artists.

DUE WEST!
4 winners

BigMedium has offered four tickets to their fundraiser at the WEST Group Show opening and catalog premiere. Food, drinks, music and art galore!

1mo. Dedicated Desk at the GoLab
1 winner

One month of dedicated work space in the GoLab Gallery located in downtown Austin, TX.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

How to enter

Pre-register online (blue button on top right) with a description of your skill-sets. Indicate whether you are seeking a team to join or list your intended team members and project description.

Use the Discussions tab to find collaborators, suggest projects, recommend topics for exploration, etc.

Judges

Mike Schwartz

Mike Schwartz
CEO at Gluu

John Goff

John Goff
Senior Interaction Designer at Ebay

Jeff Kramer

Jeff Kramer
Senior Software Engineer at HP Cloud Services

Tina Schweiger

Tina Schweiger
President at YellowFin Strategy + Design, E.A.S.T. Artist

Judging Criteria

  • Ease of Use
    Should be extremely easy to use for non-tech savvy artists and fans.
  • Interoperability
    Extra points and consideration for all submissions that make use of a cross-device platform such as Apache Cordova (http://cordova.apache.org/)
  • Use of provided materials
    Submissions should all follow the app guidelines and make use of sample data and provided API's.

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