Winnipeg tech community hacks for a good cause – Winnipeg [Video]

Eat, sleep, code, repeat.

That’s been the past 48 hours for roughly 30 volunteers in the tech sector as they build an app from scratch for a Winnipeg social enterprise.

Builder’s League: “Hackathons Changing the World” is a series of weekend work blitzes that produce custom software for organizations or groups that might not otherwise have the means to develop it. Their first weekend “hack-a-thon” took place Oct. 4-6.

Diogo Iwasaki is the co-founder of local tech startup Ori.Gatou Creative Solutions Inc., and organized the event. Students and industry professionals volunteered their time to code the app, with many spending the night at Tech Manitoba’s office and working into the night.

“We’re trying to help those places that maybe don’t have the resources, because apps are expensive!” Iwasaki said. “People are coming together, building, having meals, sleeping over and creating something magical over the weekend.”

That magical something is an app for The Community …