Name: Gopher Gala
Start: 2015-01-23T20:00:00.000-05:00
End: 2015-01-25T20:15:00.000-05:00
Location: Gopher Gala

The Gopher Gala is the world's first Golang distributed hackathon. Showcase your skills and compete for prizes against the best Go developers from around the world.

Eligibility

People can participate from all over the world. Teams can be made of 1-4 people.

Requirements

Applications must be made using Go, and must have been developed during the 48 hour event. Push regularly to Github throughout the weekend. For more information, check out our website: gophergala.com/faq

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$4,100 in prizes

First Prize

Google - Chromebook Pixel per person
99designs - free Gold Logo Contest ($799 value) - to be shared within the team
Github - 1 year of Silver Plan per person
Segment - 1 month subscription to Craft Coffee per person
Transloadit - Squishable Go Gopher
Transloadit - 1 year of Startup Plan

Second Prize

Google - Nexus Player per person
Github - 1 year of Bronze Plan per person
Segment - 1 month subscription to Craft Coffee per person
Transloadit - Squishable Go Gopher
Transloadit - 6 months of Startup Plan

Third Prize

Google - Nexus Player per person
Github - 6 months of Bronze Plan per person
Segment - 1 month subscription to Craft Coffee per person
Transloadit - 3 months of Startup Plan

Fourth Prize

Google - Chromecast per person
Github - 6 months of Bronze Plan per person
Segment - 1 month subscription to Craft Coffee per person
Transloadit - 3 months of Startup Plan

Fifth Prize

Google - Chromecast per person
Github - 6 months of Bronze Plan per person
Segment - 1 month subscription to Craft Coffee per person
Transloadit - 3 months of Startup Plan

Crowd Favorite

Rollbar - Raspberry Pi per person
Rollbar - 1 year of Small Plan ($300 value)- to be shared with the team
Github - 6 months of Bronze Plan per person
Segment - 1 month subscription to Craft Coffee per person
Transloadit - Squishable Go Gopher
Transloadit - 6 months of Startup Plan

Best Solo App

Crowd Interactive - trip to Colima, Mexico for a week to hack out of their offices*
Qwinix Technologies - Parrot Bebop Drone
Balsamiq - 6 months free MyBalsamiq
Github - 6 months of Bronze Plan
Segment - 1 month subscription to Craft Coffee
Transloadit - Squishable Go Gopher
Transloadit - 6 months of Startup Plan

How to enter

Registration took place on our website (gophergala.com) and closed on January 20, 2015. To make sure your app is eligible for judging, request a repository and then submit to ChallengePost before the competition ends (January 25 at 5pm PST, which is January 26 at 1am UTC).

For more information, check out our website: gophergala.com/faq