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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 21 hackathons coming in the next couple weeks all around the world.
Here is the complete list of 21 upcoming hackathons:
- Storrs Startup Weekend – 01/27/2012 – Storrs CT, United States
- Bergen Startup Weekend 01/12 – 01/27/2012 – Bergen Hordaland, Norway
- San Jose Startup Weekend 1/12 – 01/27/2012 – Santa Clara CA, United States
- St. Louis Startup Weekend – January 27-29, 2012 – 01/27/2012 – Saint Louis MO, United States
- Startup Hackathon & Global Game Jam – 01/27/2012 – Edmonton AB, Canada
- HACK.d – 01/27/2012 – Palo Alto CA, United States
- Winter 2012 – Apps for the Games – 01/28/2012 – London , United Kingdom
- Music Hack Day Cannes – 01/28/2012 – Cannes , France
- HTML5 Mobile Apps Hackathon – 01/28/2012 – Boston MA, United States
- Kinect for Developers – 01/28/2012 – Plano TX, United States
- London Green Hackathon – 01/28/2012 – London , United Kingdom
- Digital meets Physical: A Hardware Hackathon – 01/28/2012 – Providence RI, United States
- Salt Lake City Startup Weekend 2/2 – 02/02/2012 – Sandy UT, United States
- Trojan Hack – 02/03/2012 – Los Angeles California, United States
- NYC EDU Startup Weekend – 02/03/2012 – New York New York, United States
- Calgary Startup Weekend 2/12 – 02/03/2012 – Calgary , Canada
- Enschede Startup Weekend (Feb 3-5, 2012) – 02/03/2012 – Enschede Overijssel, Netherlands
- Madrid Startup Weekend 02/2012 – 02/03/2012 – Madrid , Spain
- Montreal Startup Weekend 02/12 – 02/03/2012 – Montreal Quebec, Canada
- SpinKick – Kickstarting Mobile Apps for Your Business! – 02/04/2012 – Seattle WA, United States
- OPF Hackathon – A Practical Approach to Database Archiving – 02/07/2012 – Copenhagen , Denmark
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.
4 Responses to “21 Upcoming Hackathons: HTML5, Kinect, Hardware and Education”
at 7:51 am
We’ll be having a Hackfest/athon over the three days of http://opencfsummit.org/index.cfm/schedule/ February 24-26 in Dallas.
at 2:52 pm
Brooklyn Art Hackathon at the 319 Scholes gallery w/ Thing-O-Matic & The Replicator. Artists and collaborators will inhabit 319 Scholes to create and explore the participatory nature of technology, bringing together hackers whose medium is art and artists whose medium is technology.
http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/01/25/brooklyn-art-hackathon-this-weekend/
at 3:08 pm
BlackBerry WebWorks HTML5 Hackathon 1/31/12 in Miami http://itexpo.tmcnet.com/east12/collocated-event/e12-Hackathon.htm
at 7:02 pm
Thanks Jason and Robert. I will add these hackathons to the schedule.