What is a hackathon

[Edward Capriolo]

I have hackathon's at my house. What happens is half the people tell you
they have really important stuff to do at work, even thought its friday,
and. Then the other half of the people bring there laptop, complain about
work and plax xbox.


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Mark Saad <mark.saad at ymail.com> wrote:

> All
>  I know this may sound like a silly question but I wanted to get a broad
> opinion on this.
> My "friends" job announced then would be having a company hackathon, where
> groups would be
> formed and each group would be given 16 hrs to design and build a project
> to do stuff.
> There would be winners and looser and prizes given out.  Is this a
> hackathon or
> something else ?
>
>
> His initial reaction when he was told about this was; "This isn't a
> hackathon, I am not sure what this is ?"
> The organizer said "what do you think a hackathon is?"  He said ... its a
> collaborative effort, with a common goal
> designed quickly help a project as needed; usually short and rapidly paced.
>
>
> So anyway what do you all think, is this a hackathon or something else.
>
> --
> Mark Saad
> mark.saad at ymail.com
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