55 Upcoming Hackathons: Civic, Music, Photos and Robotics

Kin Lane, February 23rd, 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 55 hackathons coming in the next couple weeks all around the world.

Here is the complete list of 55 upcoming hackathons:

• Open Chattanooga Hack-a-thon: Transportation – 02/24/2012 – Chattanooga TN, US
• Nairobi Startup Weekend – 02/24/2012 – Nairobi Nairobi Area, Kenya
• SFEDU Startup Weekend Bay Area – 02/24/2012 – Santa Clara CA, US
• Code: NOLA – A Civic Hackathon – 02/24/2012 – New Orleans LA, US
• Christchurch Startup Weekend – 02/24/2012 – Christchurch Christchurch, New Zealand
• Honolulu Startup Weekend – 02/24/2012 – Honolulu HI, US
• Boston Startup Weekend – 02/24/2012 – Cambridge MA, US
• Evansville Startup Weekend – 02/24/2012 – Evansville IN, US
• Lansing Startup Weekend – 02/24/2012 – East Lansing MI, US
• LA Startup Weekend – 02/24/2012 – Santa Monica CA, US
• Music Apps Hack Weekend – 02/24/2012 – New York NY, US
• BeMyApp San Francisco – 02/24/2012 – San Francisco CA, US
• BeMyApp Berlin – 02/24/2012 – Berlin Berlin, Germany
• BeMyApp Dallas – 02/24/2012 – Dallas TX, US
• CityCamp Santa Cruz – 02/25/2012 – Santa Cruz CA, US
• BlackBerry Hackathon San Diego – 02/25/2012 – San Diego CA, US
• Open Data Hackaton – 02/25/2012 – Vancouver BC, Canada
• Photo Hack Day NYC – 02/25/2012 – New York NY, US
• Photo Hack Day Berlin – 02/25/2012 – , Berlin
• Code Across America ATX – 02/25/2012 – Austin TX, US
• Code Across America SF – 02/25/2012 – San Francisco CA, US
• Arduino hack day – 02/25/2012 – London London, United Kingdom
• Heroku for Java Hackathon – 02/25/2012 – San Francisco CA, US
• API Hackday Barcelona – 02/28/2012 – Barcelona Catalonia, Spain
• La Fiesta Hackathon – 02/28/2012 – Barcelona Catalonia, Spain
• HACK the Idea-Hack-Party PARTY – 02/28/2012 – Palm Springs CA, US
• Node.js Hackday and Party – 02/29/2012 – San Francisco CA, US
• Maker Startup Weekend – 03/02/2012 – San Francisco CA, US
• Santa Clara Robotics Hackathon – 03/02/2012 – Santa Clara CA, US
• AngelHack Hackathon NYC – 03/02/2012 – New York NY, US
• Startup Weekend Lausanne – 03/02/2012 – Ecublens Vaud, Switzerland
• Westchester County Robotics Hackathon – 03/02/2012 – Westchester County NY, US
• Okanagan Startup Weekend – 03/02/2012 – Kelowna BC, US
• Montreal Robotic Hackathon – 03/02/2012 – Montreal Quebec, Canada
• #Hack4HamOnt March 2012 – 03/02/2012 – Hamilton Ontario, Canada
• 3è Toulouse Startup Weekend 03/2012 – 03/02/2012 – Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, France
• Dublin Startup Weekend 03/2012 – 03/02/2012 – Dublin , Ireland
• Art Hack Weekend SF: A HTML5 + WebGL – 03/02/2012 – San Francisco CA, US
• Southeastern Idaho Robotics Hack-a-thon – 03/02/2012 – Idaho, US
• Des Moines Startup Weekend – 03/02/2012 – Des Moines Iowa, US
• Olympia Startup Weekend – 03/02/2012 – Lacey WA, US
• Waterloo Robotic Hackathon – 03/02/2012 – Montreal, Canada
• DC Datadive with Data Without Borders- 03/02/2012 – Washington DC, US
• Science Hack Day Dublin – 03/03/2012 – Dublin 9 , Ireland
• angelHack Hackathon: Boston – 03/03/2012 – Cambridge MA, US
• angelHack Hackathon: Silicon Valley – 03/03/2012 – San Francisco California, US
• DIY DAYS NYC 2012 – 03/03/2012 – New York New York, US
• Hack for Culture – 03/03/2012 – Liverpool Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Apps Challenge Hack Day – 03/03/2012 – San Diego CA, US
• Code Across America: Open San Diego Hack Day – 03/03/2012 – San Diego CA, US
• CreateBaltimore Hackathon – 03/04/2012 – Baltimore MD, US
• Facebook Mobile HACK – London – 03/05/2012 – London Gt Lon, United Kingdom
• SpinKick – Seattle Tech Conference and App Kickstart-a-Thon – 03/07/2012 – Seattle WA, US
• Facebook Mobile HACK – Stockholm – 03/08/2012 – Kungsholmen Stockholm County, Sweden

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.