Hacks/Hackers Unite (Twitter hashtag #hhunite) is bringing together journalists and media makers with hackers and designers to build the killer media app for the iPad and other tablet devices.

The registration price includes breakfast and lunch for the weekend, and there will also be prizes for the best projects.

This event will be both a coding development camp and a journalistic boot camp. Teams of hacks (content creators) and hackers (developers and designers) will cooperate to tell develop media applications for the iPad and tablets that help inform users and tell stories. Each team must have at least one hack and hacker each. If you don’t already have a team, we will have some activities to help you find one at the event. Also, find potential collaborators and propose, browse, and discuss ideas here.

If you’re a hacker, this is your chance to build an application that shows people the potential of the iPad and tablets as a media device, working with journalists to present compelling content and stories that resonate with users.

If you’re a hack or content creator, this is your chance to develop a media application or tell a story that is alive in all forms of media, pulling users into a new form of media.

Judges for the final demos include: Harjeet Taggar, venture partner at Y Combinator; Andrew Fitzgerald, online news producer at Current TV; and David Weekly, founder of Hacker Dojo and PBworks.

Throughout the weekend, experienced journalists and coders will be on standby, holding office hours at KQED, answering questions from the teams and giving advice. Developers from KQED and NPR will be showcasing the NPR API and tools availble to access public media sources, but you can use any source or form of multimedia (text, photos, video or whatever you can dream up) to build native HTML5 Web applications or use the iPhone SDK to create iPad applications.

Let’s take chances and invent new forms storytelling for this new medium. The work that comes out of Hacks/Hackers Unite has the chance to set new paradigms for media on the iPad and tablet devices. The best examples will be highlighted on KQED’s Web site.