The goal of this hackathon is to create a mobile app that helps local artists list their works, and people more effectively share the works with their network of art-appreciating friends and family.

Calling Austin software developers!

If you have enjoyed attending the EAST Studio Tour (or other studio tours around the country) here is your chance to give back. For two days over the weekend of February 15th, 2014, we’ll be hosting a hackathon at the GoLab co-work space in downtown Austin to build an app to help artists list their works, and help people more effectively share the works with their network of art-appreciating friends and family around the globe.

A mobile app would solve a few problems. Austin’s community of artists make our city a much more inspiring and fun place to live. But unfortunately, Austin’s population of artists probably exceeds the size of the art-buying market. A mobile app that enabled people to tweet photos of art out to their network could help artists reach a larger market of potential buyers.

Another benefit of a mobile app is to enable artists in out-of-the-way locations to get their work seen by more people–leveraging the people who make the effort to see individual studios that are not in an art-studio mecca.

The goal of the hackathon is to create a mobile app. Extra points for a cross browser solution (Cordova… hint, hint…) or perhaps an HTML5 application. The APIs and sample data will be provided to the app developers (more detail to be posted here soon). The registration / authentication system will also be given.

Are you interested in becoming a sponsor? Great! Email will@gluu.org

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