I've never participated in past launch festival things but it's my understanding last year drew in about 1,000 developers for the hackathon which distilled into

I've never participated in past launch festival things but it's my understanding last year drew in about 1,000 developers for the hackathon which distilled into teams (though not sure how many). It's certainly an interesting event! Also I feel like a vast majority of the people would have to be part of the HN contingent, lol.