WOWZAPP 2012Worldwide Hackathon for Windows

WOWZAPP 2012: Worldwide Hackathon for Windows is an event that allows you to take part in a truly global experience – developers and designers all over the world coming together to build apps for Windows, Windows Phone and Windows Azure.

WOWZAPP 2012 is on November 9-11, 2012, timed to celebrate the launch of Windows 8 and immediately after the Build conference to take advantage of all that fresh new information that will be delivered at that time. It’s also on the weekend before Global Entrepreneur Week so that startup developers can kick off that week with a bang.

Instead of various teams and groups of people running their events in isolation, WOWZAPP 2012 brings them all together, connects them and supports it with PR, social media connectivity and content and collateral.

what is WOWZAPP 2012?

WOWZAPP 2012 is part of a bigger picture for

Windows :

General Availability of Windows 8

…leads to…

Build Conference

…leads to…

WOWZAPP 2012

part of a bigger picture

what you’ll get for being involved

We recognize that you’ll want to run your event as locale context sensitive as possible, so rather than provide a hard and fast set of rules you should follow to be involved, we’re instead providing you a set of supporting materials and guidelines when you register your event as part of WOWZAPP 2012:

• Sub page on the WOWZAPP 2012 website for your event, providing details, registration link, and link to your online event stream if you publish one.

• Registration page for your event, templatized in WOWZAPP 2012 layout, providing a consistent experience for attendees regardless of venue.

• Design collateral including web elements, T Shirt designs, Sticker and Poster designs and PowerPoint templates.

• Content including presentations and hands on labs for HTML5/JavaScript and XAML/C#, select Build talks adapted for WOWZAPP 2012, Opening Night presentation, suggested agenda, suggested Closing presentation for App Showcase on final day, pre-event activity list, post-event guidance for follow up, and speaker schedule for online broadcasts of Microsoft speakers situated worldwide.

summary info

Date: November 9-11

Timing: 5pm Friday to 5pm Sunday, local time

We understand that you may not be able to run a

full 48 hour hackathon, so we ask that you do a

minimum of 24 hours. Of course, if you can do the

full two day experience, welcome to the big

leagues!

Algeria

Austria

Belgium

Brazil

Bulgaria

Chile

Czech Republic

Finland

Germany

Greece

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Italy

Kazakhstan

Lebanon

Lithuania

Macedonia

is your country here? these countries are already in!

Malaysia

Mexico

Northern Ireland

Norway

Pakistan

Philippines

Romania

Singapore

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

Thailand

Tunisia

Turkey

United States

Vietnam

Content and Collateral

what you get

Introduction

Sample agenda/schedule

Suggested “WOW Awards” and “ZAPP Activities” for momentum and atmosphere

Pre-event/Preparation

Outline of available content

Collateral list – both digital and printable

PR and Promotion plan – press and social media

Post-event actions

Social media interactions and outreach plan

Speaker schedule

Event Lead-up activities

Post Event follow up activities

event guide contents

Event guide

Windows 8 learning content

- 20 presentations

- 10 hands on labs in HTML5/JS and XAML/C#

Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 – tips and tricks

Game Development Content

both HTML5/JS and DirectX/C++

learning content

WOWZAPP 2012 logo

Poster design

PowerPoint template

T-Shirt design

Sticker design

Online assets

design collateral

design collateral: two themes – city and zombie

Andrew Parsons – Finland

Ben Riga – Greece

Dion Hutchings – Malaysia

Drew Robbins – Chile

Jeff Burtoft – Finland

Nick Harris – Vietnam

Nikola Metulev – Chile

Nisha Singh – India

Peter Dwersteg – Finland

Microsoft Corporate Speaker Schedule

What next?

Get involved:

Promote and attend your existing local event

Run a new WOWZAPP 2012 event

Main site: wowzapp2012.com

Channel 9 intro video: aka.ms/APwz2

Microsoft contact: wowzapp@microsoft.com

what next?

Email wowzapp@microsoft.com with the following:

City and Country

Name of school or organization

Name, Address (physical and URL) and Contact

person of venue in your school/organization

Maximum capacity for your event (and expected #)

Start and End Date and Time

running your own venue?

We will:

set up your registration page for you,

assign you (or your appointed representative) access to the attendee list for checking in and the ability to send reminder emails,

put your site on the www.wowzapp2012.com map

send you the full event guide for content and other information to make your event a success

running your own venue? the response