<div dir="ltr">Hi guys,<div><br></div><div>My colleague Jennifer Janik passed this along to me. It sounds like a pretty neat technical opportunity in Kitchener-Waterloo.</div><div><br></div><div>And if there are K-W Perlmongers on this list, please feel free to pass this along. Thanks!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Alex</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jennifer Janik</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jenjanik@gmail.com">jenjanik@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:49 PM<br>Subject: Microsoft Sponsored Kinect Hackathon - August 8,9,10 - Hosted by Deep Realities Inc.<br><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px">
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Do you think you know people who would be into this type of hackathon?</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px">
We have created an amazing, unique event for the weekend of August 8, 9, 10th. The Microsoft Kinect for Windows engineering team is coming to Kitchener to support the Deep Realities Kinect Hackathon. Space is limited to the first 100 people to register.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px">REGISTER HERE: <b><a href="http://deepkinect.eventbrite.ca/" target="_blank">http://deepkinect.eventbrite.ca</a></b></div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px"><b>Why is the event so awesome?</b></div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px">We're creating a cultural, creative and technological convergence for an amazingly active weekend!<br>
<ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Friday night social is a chance to form teams or find kindred spirits to collaborate both creatively and technically</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Microsoft is bringing their top Kinect Engineers to provide training and support</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">You'll have a chance to work with the Microsoft experimental NFC technology that isn't available anywhere else</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Microsoft is providing Kinect Sensors and cash prizes for the winning team</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Everyone attending receives a USB loaded with the <b>complete </b>Microsoft Kinect For Windows Software Developer Kit so you can continue to develop (or work with someone else to code) for Kinect after the weekend<br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Microsoft is sponsoring awesome food for all the meals</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Conestoga College is providing at least 20 iMac creative stations loaded with Adobe CS6 and other music/creative editing software so designers can participate easily in addition to programmers</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">UX and UI designers, storyboarders and other creative types are welcome to create conceptual </li><li style="margin-left:15px">Smokin' Tony's BBQ is providing really delicious food all weekend</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">It's the ONLY Canadian stop on the hackathon tour that has been to Beijing, Berlin, New York City, Dallas, Redmond, San Francisco and possibly Amsterdam. Kitchener gets to join that list of awesome, happening cities (not Toronto!).</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">It will be in the Kitchener Studio Space at 44 Gaukel Street, right in the middle of the free Kitchener Blues Festival. When you need a break, you walk out the door into a Festival (<a href="http://www.kitchenerbluesfestival.com/" target="_blank">http://www.kitchenerbluesfestival.com</a>)<br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px">One of the Building Waterloo Region architecture exhibits is in the same space (<a href="http://buildingwaterlooregion.ca/" target="_blank">http://buildingwaterlooregion.ca</a>) providing an awesome retrospective of the history of that building (The Kitchener Post Office).</li>
</ul></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px">Microsoft is bringing their top engineers, Surface Pro workstations, USB3 Hard Drives to run bootable development environments on USB3 compatible, Kinect sensors, SDK's for everyone, prizes ... and probably t-Shirts ;-)<br>
<div><br></div><div>Please register soon as space is limited to just 100 people. Please let me know if the $20 ticket is a financial barrier.</div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="http://deepkinect.eventbrite.ca/" target="_blank">http://deepkinect.eventbrite.ca</a></b></div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm really excited about being able to bring this technology to town with the full support of the Microsoft experts and equipment. I'm also hoping that UX/UI specialists, Designers, Creatives and Digital Media skills will participate as well as the developers so that we can showcase the unique combination of skill that Waterloo Region has to offer. Bring your sketch books and art supplies! Bring your imagination! </div>
<div><br></div><div>NOTE: This is a very relaxed event. People can work as teams or individuals. You can come with concepts that you want to build, or just come to learn how to work with technology. Compete for the top prize, or go with the flow, learn and create. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Please spread the word to anyone you think might be interested in this awesome weekend experience.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope to see you at this unique, rare event!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
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<div style="font-family:helvetica,arial"><span style="line-height:18px">Jennifer Janik</span></div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial"><span style="line-height:18px">CEO, Deep Realities Incorporated</span></div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial">
<a href="tel:519-496-7566" value="+15194967566" target="_blank">519-496-7566</a><br></div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial"><a href="http://www.deeprealities.com" target="_blank">www.DeepRealities.com</a> </div></div>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Alex Beamish<br>Toronto, Ontario<br><br></div>
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