Last year it was Hack Day: this year, it's Mashed.
Several hundred of the UK's finest web developers, tech heads and web twoers are camping out at Alexandra Palace this weekend for an intensive hacking and cool-stuff building session.
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The action begins at 10am on Saturday with a few rabble-rousing talks including Yahoo's YUI and Fire Eagle team, robot geeks from Nasa and, of course, some of the BBC's finest. Unconferencers then set about building stuff for the rest of the day, the night and most of Sunday, before the exciting bit where teams present their work and one project will claim a prize of glory.
The Guardian will also be offering a prize to the team that conjures up the best piece tool with a social purpose, so that could be a community service of something that helps you cut your carbon footprint.
There'll be live Doctor Who, mountains of pizza and - very symbolically - the first live broadcast from Alexandra Palace in sixty years, thanks to the BBC techies who worked out how to broadcast from a box. More from Mashed organiser Matt Cashmore on this week's Guardian Tech Weekly podcast.
All dutifully covered on this very blog, all weekend. See you in the morning!
Schedule:
• HMI and Accessibilty with BBC R&I
• Yahoo! - YUI
• How to hack the BBC's TV services
• BBC iPlayer
• ANTS - with NASA
• bbc.co.uk/programmes
• Robotics
• Can the world wide web save the big wide world?
• Fire Eagle
• BBC Backstage
• Lonely Planet
• How to get started hacking with Kamaelia
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