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The One Day App event was a big success, and shows great promise.  The goal of the event is to not put on a super official Hack-a-thon, but to preserve the casual development that can produce solid products in a single 24 hour period of time.

Our first participants did a great job, and the world came away with 4 great applications.  We are now planning our next event, and would love all the previous participants and others to put in your feedback and suggestions for our next event.

Please leave your suggestions in the comments of this blog so we can easily organize and come back to them.

Here are some of the highlights we are working on already for this next event:

• We are already in the talks with some partners to provide prizes
• Prizes will include giftcards, gadgets, and something big ;)
• And deals with major PR sources for guaranteed coverage for top applications

• Partnering with sites such as Clusterify (http://clusterify.com) to organize teams before hand
• Pre-event meetups on Chatterous and other mediums to organize and meet team members

• Pre-event idea brainstorming, to go hand in hand with the team organizations

• We will setup a page with signed up contestants
• On the day of the event, we will monitor the twitter statuses for a "check in" tweet to see who's actually made it.
• Tweets from the teams will be shown as status updates under their team listing
• Results at the end of the day will be shown, including peer reviews and judge ratings

• Working with a few venues in the San Francisco Bay Area for a possible meetup that will supply plenty of nourishment throughout the day
• Other regions are urged to organize their own venues as well
• Final visit to a watering hole at the end of the day to celebrate and talk.

• Celebrity Judges from companies all around

• Use this opportunity to really connect with other hackers out there
• Support each other during and after the event
• Network and get an awesome community going in and around the One Day App event