What is a hackathon

[mikel king]

> On Jan 29, 2014, at 23:20, 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
> 

Hey Mark,

Yep that pretty much sums it up. At Etsy I remember them having random hack days and an official hack week for this sort of thing.

Cheers, 
M