Facebook Developers Garage Comes to Inigral HQ

Tony Zanders

Last week, members from Facebook’s engineering team came out to our Berkeley offices for the inaugural Facebook Developers Garage. We had an awesome turnout, with over 200 people hacking away at their apps. The team at Causes hosted the event, while our CTO, George Deglin presented on an open source javascript library that Inigral has made available for all Facebook developers (see the library here). Sponsored by Intel, we were able to have some of the best pizza from Zachary’s, a taco truck outside,  and two t-shirt giveaways to the attendees.

Causes’ Kristján Pétursson opened up the night before some members of Facebook, Inigral, and Causes teams spoke. Afterwards, all of the attendees participated in the DARPA Challenge. The DARPA Challenge is a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems. The first group of coders that finds the latitude and longitude of all 10 red balloons will receive a cash prize of $40,000!

Overall, it was a pleasure to get a chance to host the developers garage at our offices. For news and updates about upcoming Facebook Developers Garages, visit http://developers.facebook.com.