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Elixir is really exciting

You already know this much. We're not going to sell you on the benefits of Elixir here.

We want to help more people get good with it

Elixir is powerful and has the potential to enable many people, start-ups and established organisations to build better software, faster. We believe that the best way to master a new language is to get your hands dirty with it.

We are eager to help super-charge the Elixir ecosystem

No one's native language is Elixir. We all come from different communities and have experience with many different programming languages and tools. To make Elixir development productive, enjoyable and comfortable, we can all make our contributions to the ecosystem, building new and better tools, modules and resources.

So we are organising the first two-day Elixir hackathon in London

We want to challenge everyone, both newcomers and experienced developers, to spend two days in London working on building useful software for the Elixir community and improving each-other's skills in the process.

We plan to hold the hackathon at the Google Campus in east London, over an entire weekend in June 2015. The exact dates will be announced closer to the end of this campaign, as they might change a bit depending on interest and venue availability.

Participants can form teams, either in advance or ad-hoc during the event to work on existing or new open-source projects that will benefit the greater Elixir community.

To make this event available to everyone interested, we intend to charge a nominal entry fee (e.g. £10 or less) - this is just to ensure commitment from participants so we can plan the numbers properly. The actual expenses will be funded through this Kickstarter campaign.

The funds raised from this campaign will be used to provide breakfast, lunch and dinner to every participant (for the two days), cover organisational and promotional expenses, provide prizes for the top 3 teams and, if possible, sponsor one or more of the teams to continue their work after the event.