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Theo mentions a hackathon in Croatia in the second slide, and some might not know this, but the OpenBSD project actually invented the concept of a hackathon in
by openbsd-usr 11y ago
Theo mentions a hackathon in Croatia in the second slide, and some might not know this, but the OpenBSD project actually invented the concept of a hackathon in 1999 as a way of gathering their global developer community together in one place to hack on OpenBSD in a festive atmosphere.
Sixteen years later, the concept has been completely co-opted by (often VC-backed) tech companies as a means of promoting their products and extracting unpaid labor from developers.
- pgeorgi 11y agoThe tech company hackathons are about the same age. It's two concepts that sprung up at about the same time, using the same name for superficially similar activities. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon. The unsourced claim on Sun is explained in more detail on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaOne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaOne