Category Archives: Announcements

TADHack Global 2018, 13-14 October

We’re proud to announce TADHack Global 2018, from the 13-14 October for most locations. TADHack Madrid will be a week earlier, 5th and 6th October, as the 12th October is Fiesta Nacional de España. TADHack Global is a hackathon that helps people learn about the latest Internet, IT, and Telecoms technologies; and use those technologies … Continue reading TADHack Global 2018, 13-14 October

We’re moving from Slack to riot.im

We’re excited to announce we’re migrating the TADS community onto riot.im; the free and open source collaboration tool built on top of Matrix, the open protocol for decentralized, federated, encrypted messaging. With 2k+ members we’ve reached the manageability limits of the free Slack service and can not afford the paid service given the size of … Continue reading We’re moving from Slack to riot.im

TADHack-mini Orlando 2018 Review

TADHack-mini Orlando 2018, held at Valencia College’s Collaborative Design Center, was roughly double the size of last year by number of developers on site, with close to 80 people over the 2 days. I limited the number of sponsors this year to ensure each sponsor would have at least 5 hacks on their technology, one … Continue reading TADHack-mini Orlando 2018 Review

TADHack-mini Orlando 2018 Winners

We’ve just wrapped up TADHack-mini Orlando 2018, held at Valencia College’s Collaborative Design Center. Just before Enterprise Connect 2018. Thanks to the sponsors Avaya / Zang.io, Flowroute, Telnyx and VoIP Innovations for making TADHack possible. I’ll review all the hacks in a later weblog, this just focuses on the Orlando 2018 winners. But everyone who … Continue reading TADHack-mini Orlando 2018 Winners

TADHack-mini Orlando 2018 Live Streams

We plan to stream TADHack-mini Orlando 2018 live over the weekend for anyone who’s interested. You may be hacking remotely, but you can still feel like you’re working at the Collaborative Design Center at Valencia College in Orlando. Or if you are traveling over the weekend to Orlando to attend Enterprise Connect 2018, you can … Continue reading TADHack-mini Orlando 2018 Live Streams

TADHack-mini Orlando Webinar 19th February 3PM ET with Valencia College

On the 19th February at 3PM ET we’re planning a quick (15 mins) live webinar to introduce TADHack-mini Orlando 2018, to be held on the 10-11th March 2018 (Saturday and Sunday) at the Valencia College, West Campus, Collaborative Design Center (Building 10, 3rd floor), 1800 S. Kirkman Rd. Orlando. The format of the webinar will … Continue reading TADHack-mini Orlando Webinar 19th February 3PM ET with Valencia College

Code for Orlando supports TADHack-mini Orlando

Code for America is a network of people making government work for the people, by the people, in the 21st century. They are a non-partisan, non-political organization that brings technical talent to civic service that doesn’t naturally attract enough of it. We’re honored they are supporting TADHack-mini Orlando again this year. Last year Thomas Howe … Continue reading Code for Orlando supports TADHack-mini Orlando

2018 Call For Locations and Sponsors For TADHack Global, 13-14 October

TADHack Global 2018 will run on 13-14 October 2018, we anticipate 4000+ registrations. TADHack  Global is the largest telecoms focused hackathon. We have the broadest involvement of any hackathon as TADHack is for everyone, e.g. students, graphic designers, web developers, project managers, product managers, IT Managers, all types of coders, interested individuals, and subject-matter-expert. This weblog is … Continue reading 2018 Call For Locations and Sponsors For TADHack Global, 13-14 October

What’s the point of TADHack-mini Orlando?

“The only source of knowledge is experience.” Albert Einstein. The point of TADHack-mini Orlando is to provide experience and hence real knowledge in the domain of programmable telecoms. Telecoms is now democratized so anyone can program with it. You can add programmable voice, calling, text messages (SMS and IM), audio and video messages, video calling, … Continue reading What’s the point of TADHack-mini Orlando?

Wrapping up TADHack Global 2017

Thank you to everyone who took part in TADHack Global 2017! Especially the 65+ partners and 5 global sponsors: Apifonica, Matrix, Telestax, Temasys, and Vidyo. You made possible the largest global hackathon over one weekend, well two this year. TADHack has grown yet again, with over 3300 registrations, quite a few locations had close to … Continue reading Wrapping up TADHack Global 2017