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Objective
To mail a cupcake to another hackerspace in pristine condition.

Rules

Cupcake must be a standard sized or larger cupcake with frosting and at least one sugar based topper/decoration.
The cupcake should be home made or in the hackerspace, points to be deducted for store bought cupcakes.
Distance must exceed 1600 kilometres (1000 miles) Measured in a straight line, bonus points for over seas.
The package can have dimensions up to 30cm by 30cm by 30cm (1ft by 1ft by 1ft) and weight up to 2kgs (4lbs).
The package must be sent by a reasonably priced shipping method, days in transit will be considered in the scoring.
A video must be taken while opening the package and uploaded to Youtubeor similar.
All participating spaces must have their ustreamor similar link on the matrixpage during the Synchronous Hackathon.

Judging
The recieving hackerspace will be the judge of the condition of the cupcake.

Judging Criteria ((1-10) on each)

The creativity of method used to stabilize the cupcake
The stability of mixture / quality of ingredients
Appearance
Taste
Condition

Scoring
The scoring will contain various factors. In addition to the Judging Criteria listed above you can also score based on:

A before blog post (Spread the word about the Cupcake Challenge and add your link to the spreadsheet) +1 for this
An after blog post (A writeup of the cupcake you recieved) +1
Holding a hackathon – If your space will be open for people to use during the hackathon +1 here, please make sure your space is listed on this month’s Synchronous Hackathon page

Who
All hackerspaces and members of them. Coordinate which hackerspace you will be sending to and recieving from in this google spreadsheet (which will be used to tally the scores) https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am7eQuixxEoidHMxNFRlYzFidHdzcXVuN3BxUjRpaFE&hl=en

When
Cupcakes will be created and packaged during the Synchronous Hackathon the weekend of January 15th and shipped out the first postal day thereafter. The winning Hackerspace will be announced once the final cupcake is received and scored.

Where
At your local participating hackerspace.

Cupcake recipes
Suggest your favourite cupcake recipe.

I haven’t tried these recipes yet but I’ve heard good things. http://www.faircake.co.uk/recipes.html

Importing Food
Most countries operate strict boarder controls on importing food stuffs, especially when they contain animal products like milk and eggs. A gift of a single cupcake for personal use should normally fall into an exempted category. This section collects relevant information for participating countries and regions.

Europe
Any shipments within Europe should have no problems. Shipments from outside Europe should also be exempt, as per Commission Regulation (EC) No 206/2009.

7. Exempted animal products
The following products are exempted from the rules explained previously:
-- bread, cakes, biscuits, chocolate and confectionery (including sweets) not mixed or filled with meat product,
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-- any other food product not containing any fresh or processed meat or dairy and with less than 50 % of processed egg or fishery products.
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During Massimo’s course at CIID, the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, the students came out with the idea of making a cake resembling the IDE’s icon:

Arduino Cake at CIID

Massimo got extra happy that day, just take a look at this other picture (by the same author)

Massimo and the Arducake

For those who couldn’t be there, and for those who were there and seek to savor the memories, here is An Event Apart Chicago, all wrapped up in a pretty bow:

AEA Chicago – official photo set
By John Morrison, subism studios llc. See also (and contribute to) An Event Apart Chicago 2009 Pool, a user group on Flickr.
A Feed Apart Chicago
Live tweeting from the show, captured forever and still being updated. Includes complete blow-by-blow from Whitney Hess.
Luke W’s Notes on the Show
Smart note-taking by Luke Wroblewski, design lead for Yahoo!, frequent AEA speaker, and author of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (Rosenfeld Media, 2008):

Jeffrey Zeldman: A Site Redesign
Jason Santa Maria: Thinking Small
Kristina Halvorson: Content First
Dan Brown: Concept Models -A Tool for Planning Websites
Whitney Hess: DIY UX -Give Your Users an Upgrade
Andy Clarke: Walls Come Tumbling Down
Eric Meyer: JavaScript Will Save Us All (not captured)
Aaron Gustafson: Using CSS3 Today with eCSStender (not captured)
Simon Willison: Building Things Fast
Luke Wroblewski: Web Form Design in Action (download slides)
Dan Rubin: Designing Virtual Realism
Dan Cederholm: Progressive Enrichment With CSS3 (not captured)
Three years of An Event Apart Presentations

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