None of the hackathons that I've gone to seemed to have any of these problems. Hac Phi [1] in Philly and Hac Bos [2] in Boston are both fantastic and have been

None of the hackathons that I've gone to seemed to have any of these problems. Hac Phi [1] in Philly and Hac Bos [2] in Boston are both fantastic and have been tremendously valuable to my career. Last year Hac Phi started to distance themselves from the more recent connotations of the word "hackathon" and started using the word "exchange" instead. This switch makes me a little sad because I think the portmanteau of "hack" and "marathon" is still very relevant to those events. [1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Hac_%CF%86 https://wiki.haskell.org/Hac_%CF%86 [2] (http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Haskell/events/223607923/ http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Haskell/events/223607923/)