I've found that hackathons focused on one core technology (a piece of hardware, a specific framework, a common goal, etc) are the best. They tend to segment developers based on interest (like making games? we'll make a game using this!) and it makes it harder for the bus-dev types to throw out their dead end ideas that never end up winning.
I'm organizing a hackathon next month that'll largely be project based. No business guru nonsense. We want to see what you can do.
Still... I wake up almost every morning hoping to see a headline about "spammer brutally murdered in his mansion." It may not have been in a mansion, but there's always Vardan Kushnir. Punishment was certainly served in that situation.
If you really want to see this in action, go to a public library. I can almost guarantee that 75% of the people on the computers are checking myspaces/facebooks. It's the only time I have the urge to light computers on fire.
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I've found that hackathons focused on one core technology (a piece of hardware, a specific framework, a common goal, etc) are the best. They tend to segment developers based on interest (like making games? we'll make a game using this!) and it makes it harder for the bus-dev types to throw out their dead end ideas that never end up winning. I'm organizing a hackathon next month that'll largely be project based. No business guru nonsense. We want to see what you can do.
If you really want to see this in action, go to a public library. I can almost guarantee that 75% of the people on the computers are checking myspaces/facebooks. It's the only time I have the urge to light computers on fire.
Let us not forget Joanie Laurer.
And which America are you living in again?