Will Barkis, project manager for the Mozilla Ignite Challenge, addresses participants at “Hackanooga,” a 48-hour marathon computer programming weekend, on Sunday at the Church on Main. Participants were challenged to take advantage of Chattanooga’s gigabit-per-second Internet speed and create computer applications to pitch to companies like Mozilla and U.S. Ignite, among others. The Mozilla Ignite Challenge is a partnership with the National Science Foundation and is an open-innovation challenge to create apps with a public benefit.TO LEARN MOREFor more information on the Mozilla Ignite Challenge, visit https://mozillaignite.org/.
What if a phone app could monitor when you get hurt, call emergency services and provide your entire medical history?
That’s just one of the programs shown off Sunday as part of “Hackanooga” — a programming weekend where developers were challenged to create computer applications using Chattanooga’s gigabit-per-second Internet speed.
Over 48 hours, developers used Chattanooga’s blazing Internet speed to create programs that could be the future for medical modeling, video chat and government and community interaction.
“It was a Red Bull-and-coffee-fueled extravaganza,” said Ben Moskowitz, program officer for Mozilla, a nonprofit, open-source Web development organization. Mozilla helped organize the program along with US Ignite, another developer of ultrafast networks and applications.