The Exist Ruby team is holding an internal hackathon today (Nov 24th) from 10am to 10pm. Because us Syndeo guys are fairly new to the group, I needed to come up with a way to get everyone familiar with one another quickly, as well as evaluate where everyone’s skillsets were at. Holding a small competition seemed to be the most efficient way to do this.

We split the Ruby practice into six groups with 3 members each, all of them a mix of Cebu and Manila developers. To keep things interesting, we came up with six questions that the teams’ respective applications needed to address, as follows:

RED
Jason, Leslie, Stephen
“What’s the average lifespan of a shoe, by brand?”

BLUE
Mae, Kyle, Dado
“What are the chances that the airplane I’m about to board will crash?”

GREEN
Raymond, Marjun, Rachel
“I smoke a pack a day. How many years before I die?”

YELLOW
Evan, Jay, Gretchen
“How much do people in a given country hate their Internet Service Providers?”

ORANGE
Tim, Jessie, Nuks
“I’ve had 4 shots of vodka and 6 beers tonight. How drunk am I?”

PINK
Marco, Kristina, Mark
“What top goes with this bottom?”

I’ll have another update soon describing how it all went.