Live blog of our trip to the Jersey Fintech Hackathon

We’re going overseas

by Shane Marriott | Mar 4, 2015

That’s right. We’re taking a small team to Jersey for the Fintech Hackathon. Not too sure if we’ll get anything built there but we certainly have enough enthusiasm to try. If you’re going to be there… come say “Hi”.

Getting ready

by Shane Marriott | Mar 9, 2015

Aidy and Ian feeding themselves up whilst Shane sorts out the blog uploads from behind the camera.

First beer of the day… Well… Hot chocolate

by Shane Marriott | Mar 13, 2015

Shane has his code face on. 🙂

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 13, 2015

Shane is thinking hackathon, on the boat to jersey, but should I get him a beer or a coffee?

Harry

by Shane Marriott | Mar 13, 2015

Harry the Hacker Bear is on his way to the hackathon in Jersey.

Team member 3

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 13, 2015

Chris (member 4 of our 6 man team) meets Harry

Planning before the start gun

by Shane Marriott | Mar 13, 2015

30 mins to go before the start of hackathon 2015

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 13, 2015

Rehydration to get the brains flowing.

Start of hackathon 2015 in 30 mins.

We have out team meeting so know what we are building.

Can you spot which team member is missing?  We left Harry hacker bear guarding our room.

Good turn out 2 mins b4 the start

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 13, 2015

Let’s get coding;-)

Adjudicator pops in to welcome the guernsey dataisland team.

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 13, 2015

Thanks Vicki for popping in to welcome us.

Foooood

by Shane Marriott | Mar 13, 2015

Curry time 🙂

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 13, 2015

23.30 curry finished back to work

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 13, 2015

Chris learning new skills

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 13, 2015

Chris has never used a mac before tonight.

Looking good mate.  I’ll soon give you the windows 8 laptop back.

Midnight Friday

Good morning… We’re off to bed

by Shane Marriott | Mar 14, 2015

Back at the coal face

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 14, 2015

All refreshed and ready for a very productive day.

Let’s get building a community website based around Fintech.

Fintechci has hit the media.

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 14, 2015

Islandfm has posted our Facebook posts, thanks.

Just been interviewed by tv.

Gary burgess interview

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 14, 2015

Gary Burgess was interested why a team from guernsey attends a Jersey hackathon, it’s fun however I likened it to the Tech equivalent of the Muratti, so let’s hope the under 18 guernsey Muratti team beat jersey today and like us hope to come away with the trophy.

Stu grabs some of last nights pizza for lunch

by Shane Marriott | Mar 14, 2015

Yum yum

At the pub with our new Brazillian friends

by Shane Marriott | Mar 14, 2015

We all needed to get away from our laptops for a bit. Obvious choice was the pub. Cheers!

Tea part 1

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 14, 2015

Pizza arrived

Still at it… But might stop for a bit of sleep soon

by Shane Marriott | Mar 15, 2015

No sleep for these boys

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 15, 2015

I finished at 12.30 went to bed, come in this morning and the night dwellers didn’t go to bed!

They both look fresh, red bull and coffee I expect

GIVE.gg. Is live

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 15, 2015

We’re live

Presentations start in 5 mins.

Presentation time

by Stuart Moseley | Mar 15, 2015

Give.gg Is live,  done our presentation with a live system working.

Presentations in full swing

by Shane Marriott | Mar 15, 2015

We are watching the presentations unfold. Some very unique ideas being shown. Nothing quite as good as GIVE though… We might be a little biased of course

Getting back to Guernsey

by Shane Marriott | Mar 15, 2015

Other than Ian, team Guernsey is arriving back home after an epic weekend of code, pizza and very little sleep. See you again next time.