Shopify & HackMcGill

Slide deck for kicking off Shopify month at HackMcGill

Transcript

1. HACKMCGILL
2. HERE’S WHAT’S UP ➔ Apparel is coming Thursday at the latest + We’ll make sure you have it for Y-Hacks, even if you’re getting your stuff on the bus ➔ Y-Hack needs waivers to be signed asap. + Check your emails and read through it + Make sure passports are good
3. THE NEW HACKNIGHT ➔ Every month we’re going to bring in a company to help us have month long hackathons ➔ In the weeks in between kickoff and demo day, we’ll have relevant Hack101 sessions ➔ Come in on Tuesday nights to hack with the crew and learn something to make your hacks better ➔ Demo day for Shopify Month: December 4th ➔ hackmcgill.com/shopify
4. PLANNED HACK101’s ➔ Week 1: Git ➔ Week 2: Ruby (& a littleRails) ➔ Week 3: d3.js ➔ We’ll make our examples Shopify relevant so you can get ideas as well! ➔ Look out for Facebook events this week!
5. RULES ➔ Team size is capped at 4 members ➔ Keep it fresh! Using old code or continuing past projects is extremely discouraged ➔ You must demo on demo day to be eligible for a prize ➔ Upload your submission to challenge post (will be set up soon) ➔ You have to be a student at a university
6. JUDGING ➔ Graded out of 30 points + 10 points for originality/innovation + 10 points for technical difficulty/impressiveness + 5 points for demo + 5 points for usefulness + BONUS: 5 points for using the shopify api
7. SHOPIFY (at the end of 2012) ➔ Projects 80, 000 active stores hosted on the Shopify platform ➔ Projects $1.5 billion in total sales across its storefronts this year
8. HACKMCGILL