Obama Calling!

By Jayakishore Bayadi

Hey guys! How are you doing? Life is becoming lot busy these days. But I don’t have an ACER to make it easy, but have DELL to make it simpler! Iam contented that life is cool, happening, dynamic nowadays with a huge room for learning. I thank lord GANESHA for every thing and by the way, I wish you all HAPPY GANESHA! Belated though!

Well, Iam very pleased to share one of the finest moments in my life. Guess what? You guessed it wrong. Not marriage. Finally, after my “uncertain visa episode” achieved a nail biting finish last week, for the first time, Iam flying to the United States next week, that is on 9th mid night. Purpose: needless to say, again to attend a two-day techie conference namely, Open Hack Day to be held on September 12 – 13, 2008 in YAHOO! headquarters situated at SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA.

Let me tell you what this Open Hack day all about. The event that is open to all Yahoo! employees and outside developers from all over the world. During this time, what Yahoo! does is that opens up all of its products, platforms and APIs to participants (Ethical hackers) so they can build onto Yahoo! UI libraries, product APIs, and more with their great ideas. Open Hack Day will take this mission to make Yahoo! as open as possible to an external group of developers, giving them the scale and infrastructure that only Yahoo! can provide, to see what they can come up with.

In September 2006, over 400 people participated in the first Open Hack Day in Sunnyvale, and since then Open Hack Days have been held all over the globe, including London and Bangalore. Yahoo! is inviting anyone who has a great idea for a hack to use its resources - the scale and infrastructure that only Yahoo! can provide - to bring it to life. They are expecting hundreds of developers from Silicon Valley and beyond to storm Yahoo!'s Sunnyvale campus to hack, build, create, and have fun.

Interesting fact is that Open hack day will start at 6.00pm Friday, September 12 with activities like live entertainment, dinner/drinks/mingling and partying. Meanwhile overnight hack session and camping will continue into Saturday morning. On Saturday afternoon the best Idea will be rewarded.

Only select Broadcast media, print media and influencers will be invited to attend and cover the event and Iam a part of this contingent.

Well, keep visiting this blogsite, Iam planning to do a live blogging from California.

I feel, it’s little tough to resist Obama’s call!!