Hotels.ng has announced it is sponsoring the first hackathon in Northern Nigeria that is scheduled to hold next month in the city of Jos with the code name HackJos.
The HackJos Hackathon – Jos, Nigeria is a free, 3 day-long coding marathon for developers to create new and novel applications targeted at providing solutions to problems that bedevil society.
In the course of 3 days, more than 200 code enthusiasts will gather in Jos. Teams of programmers and user interface designers will combine their talents to build new applications to meet with and compete against other developer teams.
“Teams will be afforded an opportunity to present their completed applications at the end of the Hackathon for a chance to win prizes. Votes will be taken by the meeting’s audience, and the top applications will win various prizes,” the statement read.
Hotels.ng added it is offering 3 nights of free hotel accommodation to the winning team.
HackJos will feature a Pre-Hackathon Workshop. Individuals and teams will be engaged in a 30-day pre-hackathon Workshop for the HackJos Hackathon. Engineers will be on hand to help answer questions from participants and set them up for success. All that is required is for interested participants to bring their computers and come along with team mates. Individuals who would like to take part in the pre-hackathon are invited to come and find a team at the workshop. The pre-hackathon date is 29th January to 27th February 2015.
Hotels.ng said it is seeking to use the platform to recruit Software Engineers into its ever growing team of developers in the company. Software engineers are the core of Hotels.ng
“From the pool of participants who will take part in the HackJos Hackathon, Hotels.ng seeks to attract developers who are looking to have a large impact at a growing company and work with a high performance team, working side by side talented colleagues on hard problems attending to a large user base of customers both within and outside Nigeria,” the company said.
