Over 1100 participants have registered to take part in CODE 2015: Canada’s largest national open data hackathon to accelerate open data and hacktivate innovation! Participants from Nunavut to Toronto and Victoria to St. John's will be building apps utilizing federal government data from Canada’s Open Government portal open.canada.ca.

Before you start hacking, here’s some important information you should know:

+ Click here to check out the free coding resources on the CODE website.

+ Tweet, tweet and tweet some more using #CODE2015 or @CODE_Hackathon! We hope for a real tweet-fest with lots of pics and vids from all the 1100 registered participants across the nation!

+ We recommend you give yourself lots of time for submission. Don’t forget to keep track of the datasets you’ve implemented too! You’ll need to provide links to the datasets used in your application during submission.

+ If you have questions for our tech support or would like to learn more about data sets available on Canada’s Open Government portal open.canada.ca, we have experts that can help! Just shoot us an email: [email protected]

And finally, the themes in the three CODE 2015 categories are:

Commerce: Business Opportunities
Youth: Youth Employment
Quality of Life: Healthy Living

We can’t wait to see what you build. Happy hacking!