Talk:Hackathon

message: Sometimes hackathons are run under bad pretenses.  Companies frequently get 'free labour' out of some free food and enthusiasm when actual work and R&D that was done during the hackathon should have been paid for.  I didn't see this anywhere in the article but it is a very real thing in the field and a lot of people are turned off by the idea of hackathons these days, there's plenty of good ones in the article, but there's a number of bad experiences that continue to exist.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.251.87 (talk) 20:04, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticisms section

message: Actually, OpenBSD did use the word Hackathon first.
Our first hackathon was in 1999, in June, before the JavaOne event.
Only 10 developers were able to attend, and it was in Calgary.
Our events have always been called c#### where the c originally stood for crypto instead of
Calgary.  We had various crypto developers who were foreigners living in the US come to Calgary
so they could hack on crypto code with us, since that was legal.  Now 'c' normally means Calgary.
There have been ones held in Boston (where the pf packet filter was born), Washington DC (where sparc64
came to be), Seichelt BC Canada (the pf2k4 hackathon in a cabin in the woods).. and one will be
one held somewhere in Europe soon....
Please refer to http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.openbsd
for more history, including dates and number of attendees.
But I sure we named them "hackathons" first -- we were using the word at least 4 months earlier
as people were busy booking their flights to come to Calgary... we used to have a private web page
up that made it look official so that some developers could get corporate sponsorship.. but that
page is no longer to be found, since it was never placed into a CVS repository.
(this is Theo; I've thus far been to all of them)
: Yeah, that is coming from one of the IP's in Theo's /23 IP block.  Added a little of that to the article.  Janizary 03:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: OpenBSD

message: There was a thing in the article saying that hackathons can cost $20,000 for lodging and equipment alone. I am not sure if this claim is necessary since the article already says hackathons are expensive, but if the claim does need to be there, it should specify what country's dollars it is referring to. Also, a reference would be nice (e.g. from someone organizing such an event). --Graue 17:09, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dollar figure of cost 

message: I think that since a sprint is a term for the same basic thing as a hackathon, it should probably be in the same article - putting it in as it's own section.  I think that hackathon is the better base article because it is a more complete article and it's an older one.  Questions?  Comments?  If I don't see any in like a week, I'll go ahead with it.  Janizary 02:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it! -- drange 14:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Done.  Janizary 21:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  merger 

message: Right now the article is too strongly OpenBSD-centric, it needs a dose of Sun and perhaps some more information on how these events are done in other organizations.  65.95.124.5 02:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's looking pretty reasonable right now, so I've removed the tag.  Janizary 21:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: It might be a good idea to merge Hacker con since these terms aren't very well defined, though I could also see distinguishing Hacker con as a "hacker (white hat/black hat) meeting" vs Hackathon as a "hacker (coder) meeting". —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-11 08:14Z
: I think it needs to stay seperate, where a hackathon is about hacking a hacker con, as the article is called, is about cracking.  They are two very different things.  Janizary 15:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Hacker con]] merge? 

message: removed the uncited banner (from october '11) as the article has been cited with 3 sources.  Any issues with removal or validity of the sources can be discussed here. --RichardMills65 (talk) 05:48, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  references  

message: Hi all - I'm really very concerned about the merge of the Hack Day article into the Hackathon article. They are similar but are not the same. We also appear to have written out a great deal of the European development of 'hack days' and the more recent history of how they have changed and developed. A Hack Day can contain a Hackathon but I would argue - strongly - that they are different. Thoughts? - Matthew Cashmore  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.74.156.82 (talk) 10:56, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  why the merge with Hack Day? 

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thread_title:  Sources that use 'hack day' 

message: It seems to me that "hack day" is generally a subset of "hackathon", because hack days are (a) usually one day, and (b) tend to cover one specific topic. Thus, if there's only one article, I think it makes sense to have it at "Hackathon". And I think having just one article makes sense, because there's been no strict distinction spelled out between the two - I'm not aware of a "hack day" that couldn't be called a "hackathon". Yaron K. (talk) 13:36, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion 

message: Can the world port hackaton be mentioned, see
http://www.veneficus.nl/en/2013/10/04/port-hackathon/
these hackatons relate to real life problems / green tuning and not to just coding
KVDP (talk) 17:52, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: World Port Hackaton

message: Last semester, ~15k students went to college hackathons; the semester before that, ~10k, and the semester before only ~4k.
See http://mlh.io/, http://mlh.tv/, and http://hackcon.io.
College hackathons need to be included in this Wikipedia page! Probably more prominently than anything else currently on this page, because of their size and significance. They're a very new phenomenon, so you've probably not heard about them too much.
The New York Times will soon have an education story focusing on hackathons. NPR had a story, but it completely misses the point: http://www.npr.org/2014/03/19/291475082/pizza-perseverance-and-skills-at-a-major-league-hackathon  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.87.80.97 (talk) 21:25, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  College hackathons and Major League Hacking 

message: I found this usage dating to 1997-09-22:
"History of a hack
This soft-spoken, frail-looking man clad in a tie-dye T-shirt, faded cutoffs and ragged sandals-his scraggly hair pushed back in a ponytail-was the one who kicked off the NT hackathon."
From:
http://www.blackhat.com/media/bh-usa-97/blackhat-eetimes.html
This suggests security hacking more than building something, but it was the first usage I've found yet, preceding the previous citation by 2 years.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davejagoda (talk • contribs) 00:16, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  First use of the word "hackathon" 

message: Because hackmeetings are quite different events from hackatons, a few of us who participate in these would like to request that hackmeeting no longer re-directs to hackatons.
Hackatons according to the page have the objective of developing software; hackmeetings do not have this objective. Some developing may happen but they are more a political space where knowledge about FREE (as in freedom) software has priority.
In the spanish pages, it is clear that hackatons and hackmeetings are completely different events in practice and in philosophy :
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackmeeting
Comment by Els polacs (talk) 12:29, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: --petrohs (tlazokamati) 17:16, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  de-merge hackmeeting 

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