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anandkulkarni
If I weren't already running a company, I'd jump on this in a heartbeat. Spending a weekend working on people-matching algorithms sounds like a blast.
danellis
One of the items on the application form is "I am a US citizen". Is that a requirement for their Hackations?
alain_gilbert
I'm also interested by the answer of this question !
nottombrown
Absolutely not a requirement. Awesome Non US citizens should apply.
tehwebguy
Looks like they updated this to say that it's NOT required
papercruncher
Who owns the IP that may come out of this?
crazypyro
It would be pretty shitty if they said you can work on your own projects and then demanded that they own the work you do. They definitely should clarify this on the site though....
shunter
I'm guessing that the restriction on location is mainly related to keeping the travel costs down. I 'm mainly just curious as to why the US Citizenship is a hard requirement, particularly if I'm accepted to work on my own stuff.
crazypyro
Just in case you didn't see, they responded that this was not a hard requirement.
JulianWasTaken
Cool. Developer interaction always sounds good to me, so, signed myself up. Let's see what happens.
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nottombrown
I added a clarification to the application that US citizenship is not required.
intellegacy
This is pretty cool. Although I wonder what "grouper" is getting out of this. And why grouper is willing to part with good money. It seems wasteful to me.
Geekette
Sounds like a great way to screen, invite, carry out an extended interview and potentially hire/acquihire selected targets. :)