Lamest Event Ever
As many of you probably know, Yahoo! has hack day events which I attend.
We have internal ones 4x per year, and have had one external one this past year. These events are one of the things that keeps Yahoo! sane for me. As big of a company as it is, Hack day is an opportunity for every developer to show off their wildest idea to the CEO and founders, and an opportunity to make a difference if your idea is revolutionary (even if it has nothing to do with your day job). Even if your hack sucks, at least you might be able to get a laugh.
If you were at the open hack day event in 2006, you know what I'm talking about. Nothing beats the taking a break from coding your Jean Luke Picard hack to play from Guitar Hero, have a pint of beer, eat some pizza, or rock out to a private concert with Beck.
Google seems to have liked our idea. They're doing a similar event: Google Developer Day. Or as I call it, The Lamest Event Ever. After all, who needs Beck, beer, partying into the wee hours, and crashing in your tent in the middle of campus at 4am; who needs 2 hours of cool / funny demos to a panel of the bay area's finest nerds when you can have a 30 minute coffee break from 3:00 to 3:30 and a 90 minute developer reception at 5:30.
Google: You may have the market share, but we have the beer. We know what it really means to win.