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Revision as of 08:14, 11 February 2007 by Quarl (talk | contribs) («44 words changed»)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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)
Dollar figure of cost
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)
merger
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)
- For
- Go for it! -- drange 14:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- 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)
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)
POV
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)
- I think it's looking pretty reasonable right now, so I've removed the tag. Janizary 21:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Hacker con merge?
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 2007-02-11 08:14Z