Are you a web developer, designer or a hack programmer who is interested in baseball?

Or a passionate baseball fan with ideas? Boston Baseball Hack Day is a one-day hacking event where area baseball geeks come together, form a team, and collaborate to create baseball-related Web Apps, Websites, Data Visualizations, etc. and bring an idea to life.

Register now to attend. (Pls RSVP on this site as well, but you need to register so we get an accurate count.)

It is also a great to place to network and socialize among like-minded people. At the end of the day, projects will be judged by area experts, and a brief awards ceremony will conclude the event.

Our distinguished panel of judges:

Ben Fry

An information designer Ben is principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy in Boston. He is a co-developer of Processing, an open source programming environment for teaching computational design and sketching interactive media software. He is the author of Visualizing Data published by O'Reilly. In 2007, Casey Reas and Ben published Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists with MIT Press, and in 2010, they published Getting Started with Processing with O'Reilly. Read Ben's interview with Slate. Follow him: @ben_fry

Andy Andres

Andy, a professor at Boston University, teaches Sabermetrics 101 at Tufts University and MIT's Science of Baseball summer program. He also works as Fenway Park Datacaster/Stringer for mlb.com and MLBAM (Gameday), and writes columns for BaseballHQ.com. Read an article about him in BU's Collegian. Follow him: @sabermetrics101

Matt Pepin

Matt is sports editor at Boston.com and directs the online presentation of Boston sports news and features created by Boston.com producers and Globe sports reporters. He has been with Boston.com since 2009. Prior to that, he was sports editor at the Times Herald-Record and Varsity845.com in Middletown, N.Y., and sports editor at the New Haven Register in Connecticut. Follow him: @mattpep15

New to hack days? No need to fear. There’ll be people of all skill levels and skill sets participating. And here are some resources to get you prepared. Baseball Hack Day is free to attend, thanks to our sponsor, The Boston Globe, but registration is required. So register now. 

Schedule:

SCHEDULE:

* 8:30-9:00 Registration, meet and greet, and coffee.

* 9:00-9:30 Welcome, introductions, and pitch

* 9:30-5:30 Code! (Lunch will be served)

* 5:30-6:00 Presentation, judging and awards

* 6:30 optional beer social -- location to be decided later.

You need to bring a lap top computer, power strip and your ideas and skills.

SPONSORS

The Boston Globe

boston.com

Hacks/Hackers Boston

SABR, Boston Chapter (Society of American Baseball Research)