{"id":17069,"date":"2015-08-28T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=17069"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:51:30","slug":"call-inkathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2015\/08\/28\/call-inkathon\/","title":{"rendered":"[CALL] Inkathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We just launched an <a href=\"http:\/\/inkathon.devpost.com\/?utm_source=personal&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=inkathon\" target=\"_blank\">online hackathon with Wacom<\/a> that lets hackers create apps with a digital inking layer. I thought your students might like to take part. Can you help me spread the word?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Inkathon asks developers and designers to create apps using the new Wacom Ink Layer Language (WILL) SDK. WILL is a cross-platform inking interface that allows users to write, draw, and collaborate across devices using their finger or a Wacom-enabled pen. The platform provides high quality, universal inking expression, and can be used with any device &#8212; no special hardware is necessary.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Digital ink opens up the possibilities for personal expression in apps &#8212; features like a digital whiteboard for team collaboration; an interface that lets users draw their own emojis; or online contracts that allow users to add handwritten signatures.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are <b>over $51,000 in prizes<\/b>, and the top five finalists will receive flight and accommodation to the winners announcement at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cesweb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CES 2016<\/a> in Las Vegas.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We\u2019d love to have more student software developers, makers, and digital <i>inkovators<\/i> participate. Would you please share this with your academic community?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The full details are @ <a href=\"http:\/\/inkathon.devpost.com\/?utm_source=personal&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=inkathon\" target=\"_blank\"><b>inkathon.devpost.com<\/b><\/a>. Thanks for your support!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Joanna<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><i>Community Marketing Manager, Devpost (formerly ChallengePost)<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>@jodionis<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>@DevpostHacks<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just launched an online hackathon with Wacom that lets hackers create apps with a digital inking layer. I thought your students might like to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}