I've had a couple of meals with Jon & Swift (founders of MLH) and can speak to their dedication to the hackathon community. They're really trying to encourage e

I've had a couple of meals with Jon & Swift (founders of MLH) and can speak to their dedication to the hackathon community. They're really trying to encourage experiences like these for students around the country. Hackathons are the reason I got involved in the larger tech/startup community, an indirect (but crucial) reason I have a job right now, and have really come to be a very important culture for me. The work of MLH and Jon have made a large part of that possible. For those curious about the history of hackathons, Jon has a really great talk that he gave at HackCon last year about the history of hackathons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr6VPAe9CKU&index=1&list=PLPDgudJ_VDUdqhQldG7SqXGxaj-FiLGmP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr6VPAe9CKU&index=1&list=PLP...