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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

For

Go for it! -- drange 14:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Against

I agree, and add in codefest. Sheese, what a disgusting term for such a great thing. 65.95.124.5 06:39, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Janizary 21:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ubuntu has "developer conferences" - as it was a red link and appears to be the same thing I've redirected here. Secretlondon 04:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

I think it's looking pretty reasonable right now, so I've removed the tag. Janizary 21:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

I'm against it also. 'Hackathon' describes, generally, an open source development conference, whereas a hacker con is more computer security centric. 69.161.80.217 18:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the merge proposal, since it found no support, though admitedly little opposition. Janizary 21:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some things that need cleanup

• Other hackathons - someone added a poorly-phrased entry and a unlinked and un-cited website reference
• Hackfest redirects here from another page (perhaps more than one) regarding the Quebec-located hacker conference which seems sane except the incoming links need cleanup
• There are a number of uncited claims and explanations of related jargon
• There is a while section on the OpenBSD hackathons and not for any other, listing dates for previous events. Seeming that this is somewhat OS specific, this should be cleaned up: perhaps removed, perhaps moved to another page, perhaps just generalized without the dates being listed.

Your thoughts? --Kickstart70TC 22:26, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don't forget that the Sprints section could also probably be removed completely. Most of it's content is already present in Sprint_(software_development). MLetterle (talk) 02:31, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sprints section removal would make article more concise; linking should be added to that article if sprints is removed.

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

I'd also like to point out that the term Hack Day has been in use for this kind of event far longer than Hackathon, as google trends demonstrates. - Jonty Wareing