22 Upcoming Hackathons: Wikipedia, Facebook and Social Good

Kin Lane, January 10th, 2012

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Hackathons are a fast growing phenomenom where developers come together, usually in short periods up to 72 hours to submit ideas, form teams and hack together applications, data visualizations and sometimes form business models around their ideas. ProgrammableWeb is tracking 22 hackathons coming in the next couple weeks all around the world.

Most of the hackathons below are in the United States, with New York (four events) edging out San Francisco (two events). Here is the complete list of 22 upcoming hackathons:

• Accelerator Workshop – 01/11/2012 – Toronto Ontario, Canada
• PDX Weekly Hackathon – 01/12/2012 – Portland OR, United States
• PennApps Spring 2012: Simplicity – 01/13/2012 – Philadelphia PA, United States
• Copenhagen 3D Startup Weekend January 2012 – 01/13/2012 – Frederiksberg, Denmark
• Northern Kentucky Startup Weekend – 01/13/2012 – Highland Heights KY, United States
• Seattle Startup Weekend – 01/13/2012 – Seattle WA, United States
• West Michigan Startup Weekend – 01/13/2012 – Grand Rapids MI, United States
• Culvert Hackathon 2012 – 01/14/2012 – Virtual
• Arduino Camp & Robot Hackathon – 01/14/2012 – New York NY, United States
• Facebook Mobile Hack – New York – 01/18/2012 – New York NY, United States
• CodeChix Presents: Mobile/Web Graphic Design for Engineers (Women only) – 01/18/2012 – Mountain View CA, United States
• Hackathon for Social Good – 01/19/2012 – New York NY, United States
• Wikipedia – San Francisco Hackathon January 2012 – 01/20/2012 – San Francisco CA, United States
• Haskell Hackathon – 01/20/2012 – Cambridge MA, United States
• Facebook Mobile Hack – Boston – 01/20/2012 – Boston MA, United States
• CityCampHNL Hackathon – 01/20/2012 – Honolulu HI, United States
• Startup Weekend Ann Arbor – 01/20/2012 – Ann Arbor MI, United States
• Jacksonville Startup Weekend – 01/20/2012 – Jacksonville FL, United States
• Startup Weekend Krakow, 20-22 January 2012 – 01/20/2012 – Kraków Malopolskie, Poland
• Startup Weekend SLO – 01/20/2012 – San Luis Obispo CA, United States
• Umbraco London Hack day – 01/20/2012 – London London, United Kingdom
• Cleanweb Hackathon NYC – 01/21/2012 – New York NY, United States

If we missed your event, make sure and submit below as a comment and we’ll include it next week.

For those that are new to the hackathon space, these events are not intended to perform illegal activities around computer networks. Software developers widely see hacking as a quick and dirty programming solution to a problem.  It is NOT about gaining access to other networks, which is a definition widely publicized by the media and hollywood.  Among the developer community, it is mean to be a positive term that drives innovation among developers.