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Hackathon

A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest; a portmanteau of hacking and marathon) is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time, such as 24 or 48 hours in person or several days online. They are often run using agile software development practices, such as…

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related to Criticism · 19
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related to Using a specific programming language, API, or framework · 18
Hackathon → API, APIs, Flickr, Google, Hack Day, HTML5, JavaScript, Lonely Planet, Node, Open Hack, Open Hack Day, Open Hack India, Rails, Ruby, Some, The, There, Yahoo
related to For a cause or purpose · 13
Hackathon → British, Canadian, DementiaHack, Facebook, HackerNest, In, International Space Apps Challenge, NASA, One, Starting, The, There, United States Congress
related to External links · 10
Hackathon → Civic Media, Demystifying, Hackathons, June, Learning, Mckinsey, Media-Making Strategies, MIT Center, October, Support Community
related to To connect local tech communities · 8
Hackathon → Africa, Australasia, Australia, Europe, North America, Some, StartupBus, This
related to Etymology · 6
Hackathon → Calgary, June, OpenBSD's, Since, The, United States
related to For an application type · 6
Hackathon → Air, Ireland, Mobile, Over, Phoenix Park, Some
related to Datathon · 5
Hackathon → Datathons, Participants, They, Well-known, Winners
related to Notable events · 5
Hackathon → CampNaijaHacksNASA International Space Apps, Campus PartyDisrupt AsiaGovHackHackerNestHackMIThackNYHackTXHackYeahHajj HackathonJunction, ChallengePACTFScience Hack DaySingapore FinTech, FestivalStartupBusVanHacksWikimedia HackathonInstallfest, LA HacksMHacksMTF Labs Hack
related to Code sprints · 4
Hackathon → Code, In, Such, Unlike

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mobile appsinstance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
a desktop operating systeminstance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
web development or video game development.Mobile app hackathons like Over the Airinstance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
held at Phoenix Parkinstance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
Irelandinstance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
can see a large amount of corporate sponsorshipinstance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
interest.Music Hack Dayinstance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
a hackathon for music-related softwareinstance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
hardware applicationsinstance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
is a popular eventinstance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
having been held over 30 times around the world since 2009instance ofTypes of hackathonsFor an application typeSome hackathons focus on a particular platform0.80text
ICRCinstance ofIt's hosted by CERN with partners from other non-governmental organizations0.80text

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