Oklathon 2024

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Join us for an event like no other! An event packed full with collaboration, coding, and lunch! This event is the perfect opportunity for developers of all skill levels, from juniors to seasoned professionals, to join together to build something awesome.

Special thanks to our latest sponsor Filebase!

Event Details

• Date: October 19, 2024
• Time: 9-4 with lunch and networking from 12-1 sponsored by Filebase!
• Location: IMMY, Norman

At our inagural event several different web-based open-source projects were provided. Participants chose which project they wanted to work on. Each team was comprised of developers from different experience levels. For our upcoming October event we would love to see what projects you all would like to work on!

Get Registered Now!

Fill out the Registration Form and get ready to dive in, have fun, and be a part of something amazing! We’re excited to see what you can build!

Never been to a hackathon? Not sure what a pull request is? We got you!

Hackathon How-to class

For the first time ever, we are offering a Hackathon How-to class that will run along side Oklathon. In this class we will go from zero to pull request :) Spaces for this class will be very limited and will go fast, so be sure to register ASAP!

NOTE: This is not an Intro to Web Development workshop. Basic HTML/CSS and some Javascript knowledge will be needed. Check out the links below to up your dev game before the hackathon.

Prerequisites

• Some familiarity with development
• Experience with GitHub pull requests
• Git/Github Desktop set up on your laptop
• VS Code or another code editor/IDE set up on your laptop

Resources and Tutorials

• freeCodeCamp
  • Responsive Web Design
  • JavaScript
• Git/GitHub
  • GitHub Pages
  • Learn Git Branching
  • Pull Requests
  • First Contributions
  • Issue Collections
    • Awesome for Beginners
    • Good First Issue
    • Good First Issues
    • Up for Grabs
• Vue

Sponsors

A huge thank you to our amazing sponsors who make this event possible:

• Techlahoma: a professional network of more than 5,000 information technology workers, hobbyists, students, teachers, and future technologists.
• IMMY: a rapidly growing in-vitro diagnostic manufacturer and global leader in fungal diseases, providing diagnostic solutions and products to over 80 countries to enhance patient care and therapy.
• Filebase: The InterPlanetary Development Platform. From IPFS pinning to dedicated IPFS gateways and IPNS names, Filebase provides all the tools you need to build the best decentralized applications.

More Sponsors are always needed

Help us make this event awesome! Please reach out if you would like to sponsor.

Organizers

• Amanda Kis
• Bryan Rigsby
• Luigi Polvani
• Shannon Nix

The talk that started it all

Oklathon Talk presented by Fazil Raja

Potential Projects

• Calorie tracker
• Vim war, like Codewar but Vim
• Weather/Geoscience data
• B-sides badges
• Sports/Sports analytics
• Twilio AI call center bot

Past Projects

• 200OK
• Code Newbies
• Heating and Cooling Centers
• OKC Coffee and Code
• Oklahoma Earthquakes
• Oklathon
• Ranked List
• SheCodesOKC
• ThunderPlains 2024
• Tulsa Web Devs
• WebSync

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For more information, questions, or how to get involved, join us in the #oklathon channel on Techlahoma Slack. If you’re not a member of Techlahoma’s Slack yet, go to slack.techlahoma.org to sign up!