I am currently at the 2011 Wisconsin Facebook Hackathon.

http://twitter.com/Parkzer/status/117359944554123264

For those of you who don’t know, the Facebook Hackathon is an event hosted by Facebook staff members at various universities across the United States where they gather up local engineers and software developers to come program something new. If you’ve been keeping up with my blog for over one year, you might remember the video I made for the 2010 Facebook Hackathon. I’m back once again for the second annual hackathon.

If you don’t remember my video from last year, you can search for it on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Facebook+Hackathon+2010+Parkzer

This year, the event is going on from 5 PM until 5 AM. I haven’t really been taking many photos like I did last year, but I’ve been getting a lot of footage for a video that I should be done making sometime tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Here are some photos that I’ve gotten so far:

Those are fortune cookies that we got after ordering Chinese food for dinner. That’s probably the great­est number of fortune cookies I’ve ever seen in one place at the same time.

That’s the sketch the table next to mine drew out on the dry-erase board to plan out their software. I don’t really know what any of it means, but it looked interesting and complicated so I took a picture of it.

I’m doing some of my own programming right now (for the Badger Herald, not for the competition; I’m not good enough at application development to be successful in the actual hackathon) and starting to map out a timeline for the final video that I’m going to make for this event. I’m probably going to make more than one video again like I did last year, and the first one should be done in a few hours or so.

Check back tomorrow for more updates from the Facebook Hackathon.