Open Hack Day

Date: October 10, 2007
Source: PC WORLD
By: John Ribeiro

Yahoo Inc. held Open Hack Day October 5 and 6 in Bangalore, India, in a bid to build an ecosystem of external developers familiar with the company's technologies.

The event follows similar ones in Sunnyvale, California in September last year, and London in June. Before that, Yahoo used to have internal hack events for its own staff.

After the Open Hack Day in Sunnyvale, one participant started a company based on an idea that came to him at the event, David Filo, Yahoo's co-founder, told reporters Saturday in Bangalore.

Yahoo needs the ecosystem to come up with ideas that may not come from within the company, said Bradley Horowitz, vice president of Yahoo's product strategy group. Any intellectual property (IP) developed at the hacker event is the property of the developers, he added.
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