More than two dozen Chattanooga-area techies will buckle down this weekend for a first-ever multi-city gigabit hackathon.
GigHacks CHA is expected to include designers, developers, writers, marketers, business-development specialists and entrepreneurs. It’s not meant just for experts or professionals, said Mozilla community catalyst Lindsey Frost. “Hackathons are learning events.”
If you go
* What: GigHacks CHA * When: Friday-Sunday * Where: GigLab at the Chattanooga Public Library, fourth floor * Cost: Free to participants. Register at gighacks-cha.challengepost.com. Sunday demo, 3 p.m., free to public.
The 48-hour event, which is free to participants, is still open for registration.
GigHacks was created “to help kick off the gigabit age and expand the gigabit app ecosystem,” according to a press release from Orange Silicon Valley, which has partnered with organizations in five cities for the hackathon. Locally, that connection is with Mozilla’s Hive Chattanooga, business accelerator Co.Lab and the Chattanooga Public Library.