Coworking Cup 2012 – Online football pools for the international coworking & startup community enter a second round
The wait is over, the European Football Championships 2012 are starting soon and we’re eager to share our new online football pools with coworkers and startups from across Europe!
This year’s Coworking Cup starts on Thursday, May 17th and ends on July 31st, 2012 – join us for 31 matches of fun. Coworkers and startups from across Europe can compete in teams against each other in a global group ranking and the best teams will receive awesome prizes. Every space and coworker can offer prizes or promote and organize events, like public screenings during the championships. So if you‘re a football fan and you can’t wait to place your forecasts, just write an email to jan@cowocup.com to sign up.
We developed Coworking Cup 2012 – CoWoCup for short -in collaboration with Coworking Cologne, the umbrella organisation of coworking spaces in Cologne. Coworking spaces from across Europe as well as sponsors are still welcome to support us and help offering an even more exciting Coworking Cup 2012. Don’t hesitate to contact us!
Place your forecasts and challenge your luck!
Website: http://www.cowocup.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CoworkingCup
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/CoworkingCup
Advance Hackathon
Last week we’ve had the wonderful inspiring advance hackathon, which we’ve co-organized with Medien.NRW and 9elements. About 80 hackers visited us here at cowoco and have been pushing the web a little bit further. Make sure you check the list of projects and sources on github.
Thanks for everyone who has joined! Hope to see you all next time again!
Now, here is a nice hackathon video and loads of pictures can be found on the railslove flickr account and at medien.nrw
Pinkify jQuery plugin released
Following the craze of bronies loving our Easter Egg, I’ve decided to take my time today and release this code as a jQuery plugin.
Behold, Pinkify! It’s in an early stage, but when you have a look at available options, you’ll get the idea what you can do.
A more detailed documentation is yet to come.
Heart Charmer
We’re happy to announce that our website got over 4000 unique visitors in last two days. All that thanks to Mike’s little Konami code on our website, which – thanks to Lizzie – was picked up by Redditers and made to the front page of My Little Pony Subreddit.
As an appreciation gift for all the bronies Mike made this pony. She’s called Heart Charmer, and refers to both our heart and how charming all of us are. ;)
Enjoy the pony after the break.
– EDIT from Mike:
Wow, you guys are crazy!
We’ve been featured on Equestria Daily!
Animated Pinkie Pie GIF is made by ~fluttershylover:
(click for DeviantArt page)
— EDIT 2
What the buck, videos, music.
Rails Loves Pinkie by VinylAndOctavia
— EDIT 3
Featured on My Little Brony
European Pirate Summit is Setting Sails Again – EPS ’12!
What is EPS?
In 2011, the first European Pirate Summit took place. EPS is a meetup for innovators and adventurers. It’s a conference about people that have stories to tell. EPS is about stealing gold and taking over the world. It’s about pirates like The Horrid Slave and his crew! Best have a look at this short video from last year’s event:
Are you a pirate?
If you want to join the crew… learn to speak like a pirate, read this article, prepare presentations like this and listen to this song over and over again. The last step is to send out this application. But what are real pirates doing?
They are drinking rum and hacking sites like this one: http://railslove.com/arrr!
And because Railslove loves the EPS our Railslove DJ will play this song over and over again and we will keep this site until some other pirates are hijacking our website. Try it… you lose! ARRR!
Say Ahoy! to EPS in September 2012
This year about 500 EPS pirates are taking over Cologne on 10-11th of September.
What do you can expect this year? First of all… awesome captains like Fred Oliveira of 500 startups,
Andreas Ehn, 1st CTO of Spotify and current CTO of Wrapp, and Frank Thelen of doo. But stay tuned… the message in the bottle is still on its way to some other seadogs!
Like last year there will be a pitch competition (apply now!).
Young pirates are the future – EPS Scholarship
As we know – we need more pirates. And young pirates are learning quick. If your dream is taking over the startup world one day, best start learning as early as possible! So together with EPS we’re searching young talent to bring fresh ideas aboard. We’ll teach the all the required skills to craft their own businesses one day – pirate style! Railslove will be helping out with coding workshops for kids this year – check out the Railslove University page for more details soon. We’ve already successfully organised Ruby-on-Rails-from-Scratch courses in the past for students. We believe that kids are the future, so let’s provide them all the tools and knowledge they need! More dojos, more pirate training camps, more kick-ass teaching, more mayhem, more ARRRRRRRR – ARRRRRR!
Imagine a world of 18-year-young captains setting sails for exciting new waters!
Godspeed!