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Welcome to the inaugural launch of the X University program at Georgia Tech. This site is available to provide you with all of the information that you will need to participate in the hack.

This is a free event and you will own all intellectual property of what you build, we just supply the food, venue and prizes for you to hack away.

What to Expect

An X University hackathon is a development event where participants have the opportunity to build out hack projects over a 24 hour, all night development event. X.commerce staff will be on hand during the event to help you with any blockers or to answer your questions throughout the day and night.

The event will start out on Friday evening from 5-8pm with an overview of the program, what to expect, and a series of technical talks to help get you started. On Saturday at 11am the doors will open for registration and at noon we will begin the hack.

Keeping Up to Date and Social Accounts

During the event we will be reaching out to everyone via our Twitter account. This is the place to find up-to-date information on the program and reach out to us before the event. During the event we will be posting prize giveaway questions and notifications of food arrival through the Twitter account.

Twitter

On Twitter, here is the information that you will need to reach out:

Twitter Account: @xuniversity

Event Hashtag: #xuniversity

Facebook

We have a discussion group available on Facebook - if you have general questions or are looking to find a team or team members, you can reach out to everyone there.

Photos

If you take photos of the event, the tag that we are using is #xuniversity for the program and #XUGATech2012 for the Georgia Tech event itself.

What We're Looking for in a Hack

We are looking for hacks that are innovative, fun or solve a real problem. Hacks may include web applications, mobile apps, hardware projects, food hacks or anything else that you may be interested in working on.

Hacks should use at least one of the products or services with eBay, PayPal, X.commerce, Magento, or any of the other eBay owned products and companies.

To get you started with an idea, the best hacks are those that:

Solve a real world problem.

Fix an issue that you have with the way your school runs.

Build upon an existing product, but in an innovative way.

Do something new an innovative that has never been done before.

We do not take ownership of your projects, they are your intellectual property to do with as you see fit. From the product many developers in the past have built startups around their great ideas.

Before Attending

Even though hacking on your project needs to start when the hackathon begins, there is still a lot that you can do before the event begins: