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It happens mostly in large cities like SF, NY, Austin, Seattle, near where tech center is, Most Hackathons I know attract students and young professionals. Ther
by yeukhon 11y ago
It happens mostly in large cities like SF, NY, Austin, Seattle, near where tech center is, Most Hackathons I know attract students and young professionals. There are some more professional hackathons like AT&T's. Facebook for example has a FB Hack and you can compete for the trophy at FB Headquarter, I don't know the first hackathon but my impression is FB's hackathon has turned into a popular icon and everyone soon follows.
Major League Hackathon is an organization going around US and now some part of the world to help organize hackathons.
I've been to FB's, Google's, a couple NY Hackathons, MIT Hack, and a few other smaller student-init hackathon events. I basically hear them on twitter, on facebook, or from friends.
- marssaxman 11y agoI'm in Seattle, that's the funny part! I used to work for Google, too, and I never heard about any hackathons there, though it was a few years ago now. If it's primarily a student thing, it makes sense that I wouldn't be hearing about it, though, as I'm long past that part of my life and have no connection to the academic world.
- yeukhon 11y agoSorry if I wasn't very specific. I was referring to https://sites.google.com/site/appsscripthackathonnyc/ https://sites.google.com/site/appsscripthackathonnyc/. Yeah, I am in my mid twenties and I can say I am not very attracted to Hackathon anymore. I usually went alone and that was probably a mistake, although the spirit of most Hackathons is to form team with strangers...