Due to limited capacity, please only RSVP if you are comfortable competing in Ruby or Python and are ready to throwdown. Winners of the Ruby & Python hackathon will advance to the grand finale, and the winner of the final tournament will be awarded a demo spot at the NY Tech Meetup! Get the chance to show off at the biggest monthly event in tech. See you soon! THE CHALLENGE Googles first web crawler was written in Python, and GitHub upended the open source world using Ruby. Both languages have spawned innovative frameworks that help you build applications not just quickly, but cleanly, and definitively raised the the bar for web development. Their meetup communities for these languages are noteworthy for not just for bringing together experienced programmers, but reaching to the beginners who will be tomorrows experienced programmers. In this competition we invite Ruby and Python coders to come and build things togetherif not on the same teams, at least on the same room.

Hack on your most far fetched ideas with like-minded engineers, then enjoy drinks on the roof of Meetup HQ while the judges deliberate. You might win a wonderful prize and the chance to come back and compete in the grand finale, and you will definitely score some free food, drinks, and good company. THE SCHEDULE 9am Doors and un-groggify-ing

9:30 API demos

10-9 Hacking

9-10pm Hack presentations

10-11 Rooftop drinks + winner announcements

Prizes announced soon! THE SHOUTOUTS Big shout out goes to Meetup HQ's kickass partners Etsy, Twilio,Tumblr, Mashery, Ordr.in, SendGrid and the NY Tech Meetup! And of course to these other Meetups that joined forces to bring the tech community together: NYC Ruby Women, Django NYC, NYC on Rails, NYC.rb, NYC Web Performance