If you’ve been to any of our recent user group meetings, you’ve probably heard about our forthcoming application development platform, Acre. Our Hack Day is a chance to learn about Acre in detail and start building apps and mashups with Freebase's structured data.

Freebase staff and developers will be on hand to help you out, answer questions, and even collaborate on your project.

If you’re not a programmer, but are interested in open data or have data you’d like to share with Freebase, we’ll be able to help you with that too. We can hold your hand through the process of building schema, loading data, and creating a user domain to help build community around your area of interest.

At the same time as all this hacking, we’ll have rooms set aside for unconference-style discussions and workshops. Whatever your field of interest — from visualisations to iPhone apps to social change — you can claim a room, a whiteboard, and a projector for a half hour slot to discuss it with like-minded people.

Of course, this event is free (lunch and tshirt included) and all are welcome.

Details

November 8th, 2008. 10am-6pm.

Metaweb Technologies, 631 Howard St, 4th floor (enter via 55 Hawthorne St), San Francisco, CA.


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Resources

Here are some resources to get you started with Acre and building Freebase apps:

Attendees

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Sessions

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Themes

Our theme for this event is Open Government.

If you are involved in projects related to open government, we'd love to see you at Hack Day!

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