Parallax Hack Day: July 2015

Parallax are hosting their 15th Hack Day!

A Hack Day is an event in which programmers, graphic designers, interface designers and account/project and and marketing managers, collaborate intensively on lots of different projects; from hardware and software development to more personal improvement projects like learning new programming languages and more SEO.

To allow our creative juices to flow we are shutting down our office for just over 24 hours, from this evening until tomorrow evening, to provide teams with uninterrupted focus. This freedom from daily work responsibilities fosters ingenuity and innovative thinking.

Hack days are a proud tradition in the digital sector, where innovation is nothing short of a company’s lifeblood. Many industry tech giants—including Facebook, Netflix , and LinkedIn -hold hack days regularly throughout the year with a goal of kick-starting collaborative brainstorms that often don’t fit into the regular course of business.

What’s the business case for a Hack Day?
These ideas and ‘hacks’ can be used to create meaningful business results and can inspire relevant solutions for new projects.

Here’s our July 2015 Hack Day Agenda:

Thursday

4PM – Parallax Hack Day Kick-Off Meeting
Teams and Projects are announced; ensuring all software updates have been installed, and any hardware required has been purchased.

6PM Deliveroo Delivers our MEATLiquor order
Hack Days make Parallax hungry

Teams are given Thursday afternoon as a sort of head-start on their project, making sure they have everything required and set up ready for Friday morning.

Friday

9:30AM Breakfast Bar

1PM Out for lunch in the sun

Teams work throughout the day on projects. We will be sharing pictures, posts and Vines across our social media channels throughout the day. You can keep an eye on our activity by following the hashtag #ParallaxHackDay, or follow it on our Hack Day Tagboard

Monday

11AM Hack Day Presentation
Teams present what’s been achieved and created and we’ll update our blog so you can see what we’ve made!