Comments on: iPhone hackathon 4 charity: Halifax edition

By: The iPhone Hackathon: Building Apps for Charity & Community (and tasty snacks) – hi there, blog!

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:17:50 +0000

[...] Will Lechance, Dale Zak, and The Hub Halifax all have great posts about the weekend as well, so check them out. It was interesting how the ideas and scope evolved over the first day. The idea Nick and I spent most of our time with was CivicSnitch, which in the end doesn’t really lend itself to a charity directly, and from a marketing perspective isn’t an ideal candidate for a paid iPhone app. However, the nature of the app is to help point out dangers, environmental concerns, or otherwise “broken” things in your community (pot holes, constant overflowing garbage, poor lighting) and report to who’s responsible in your local municipality via the already-existing website (Will actually pointed this site out as the original idea started to drift towards the same concept, so we ran with it). The funny thing is, I went into this thinking we have to keep focus on making marketable apps that we can sell for charity. But, in the end we’ll have something that more-so aligns itself with the initiatives of say, the Ecology Action Centre here in Halifax, maybe more specifically pertaining to Built Environment, which is still community-focused and pretty cool. [...]

By: Dale Zak

Dale Zak — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:38:37 +0000

Great blog post Will! You really captured the spirit and energy from the weekend.

We definitely are gonna miss you in Halifax, but hope you are able to spread the Haligonian spirit to Montreal

By: iPhone Hackathon – Thank You! – the hub Halifax

iPhone Hackathon – Thank You! – the hub Halifax — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:28:17 +0000

By: Tracy Boyer

Tracy Boyer — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:25:38 +0000

Thanks for this Will and for your time. I think it was a fantastic weekend and was impressed with the app selection, there were over 15 choices! Look forward to seeing where this goes.

Tracy

By: Ashela

Ashela — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:24:15 +0000

Very neat, I was hoping to be there… still love to meet for coffee if you get a chance while you are still in Halifax…

All the best,
Ashela

902-877-7875

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:04:14 +0000

Great post Will! Stoked to continue work and get these out there! And to use them, it’s going to be a fun trip, I think a lot of good things will come form this weekend in different ways for Halifax and everyone involved.

By: Hatem Nassrat

Hatem Nassrat — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:41:25 +0000

Awesome Event, can’t wait to see more of these happen in Halifax. It was a lot of fun, and best of all, for a good cause.