So we sent out the first round of invitations to the Hack Day last week and more are going out all the time. The reaction has been phenomenal and we're all really excited, but probably the thing we've been enjoying most has been the way people are getting in the mood already and are putting together their own systems to help hackers meet, form teams and share ideas with each other. It's totally in the spirit of the day and we couldn't be happier about it. You guys rock.
For example, some enterprising hackers have set up an unofficial wiki! People are listing the kinds of areas they work in, the kinds of projects they're interested in doing and are also swapping tips about some of the logistical stuff as well (like how to get to the venue - we'll be putting out some more information about this nearer to the day). It's already a quite extraordinary list. We've got people coming who are interested in everything from the Semantic Web and Microformats all the way through to Arduino-based hardware hacking and hardware interaction design. We have graphic designers, perl programmers, python enthusiasts and a sizeable group of Rails hackers.
Oh, and the password is h4ck. Of course!
But that's not all. Over at Hackdayforum.com there's a message board for people coming to the event, a list of the resources available for hackers, the latest information from this site and a list of all the links from del.icio.us tagged hackday. If you've got a particular project you'd like to bash around with a few people, this might be the ideal place to get some feedback.
Meanwhile, if you're interested in working with the BBC's APIs then there are a lot of conversations going on right now on the BBC Backstage mailing list that you should maybe get involved in.
And of course if you're still looking for ideas, then you should visit Backstage's list of the BBC's feeds and APIs, the Yahoo! Developer Network and Flickr's list of services.
Anyway, that's enough for now. We'll have more announcements for you next week, including some of the speakers!