[ok-scotland] Repository Fringe 2013 - Developer Challenge Announced! (31st July - 2nd Aug 2013)

[Nicola Osborne]

The Repository Fringe 2013 Organising team are delighted to announce the 
details of our Developer Challenge!

Thanks to our kind sponsors we have several prizes on offer, with a top 
prize of £300 in Amazon vouchers for the best hack, and special prizes 
from the Digital Preservation Coalition, one of our key Developer 
Challenge sponsors, for the best Preservation Hack. We are also, for the 
first time, opening the Challenge up to developers who may not able to 
attend the event in person and hope this will spark some collaborations 
between those in the room and others across the globe.

Read much more about the hack here:

Developers Challenge: 
http://rfringe13.blogs.edina.ac.uk/developer-challenge/

Challenge Rules: 
http://rfringe13.blogs.edina.ac.uk/developer-challenge/developer-challenge-rules/

All hacks will be presented to a judging panel during the morning of 
Friday 2nd August. The best of the hacks will be presented in a Show and 
Tell session chaired by Paul Walk, which will take place before our 
Closing Keynote speaker on Friday afternoon.

Please do spread the word about the Challenge (our hashtag is 
#rfringe13dev) and, if you plan to take part in-person, make sure that 
you register for Repository Fringe (http://rfringe13.eventbrite.com/) 
and indicate your intention to take part. You’ll also want to get 
planning travel and accommodation if you haven’t already!

The Repository Fringe, organised by the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, 
and Edinburgh University Library, will take place at the University of 
Edinburgh Informatics Forum from Wednesday 31st July until Friday 2nd 
August 2013.

The event includes a number of presentations and discussion sessions 
which will be of particular interest to Open Data fans and developers, 
including our Opening Keynote, Jacqui Taylor of Flying Binary, who will 
be talking about her work with the UK Cabinet Officer as an Open Data 
Domain Expert. The full programme will be available nearer the date - 
and we welcome your own pecha kuchas, presentations and ideas.

For more information take a look at our website 
(http://repositoryfringe.org/) or contact myself and the rest of the 
RepoFringe organising team (repofringe at gmail.com).

Hopefully see some of you in a few weeks time!

Nicola.

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Nicola Osborne
Chair, Repository Fringe 2013

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tw: @repofringe | #rfringe13

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a: EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 158-162 
Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PR

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in 
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.