44 Upcoming Hackathons: Facebook, Open Data, Baseball and Ninja Geeks

Kin Lane, March 21st, 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 44 hackathons coming in the next couple weeks all around the world.

Here is the complete list of 44 upcoming hackathons:

• Facebook Mobile Hack – Hong Kong – 03/22/2012 – Hong Kong , China
• HTML5 VS ANDROID – HACKATHON – 03/23/2012 – Madrid Madrid, Spain
• Martinique Startup Weekend – 03/23/2012 – ,
• Oslo Startup Weekend 03/12 – 03/23/2012 – Oslo Oslo, Norway
• Rouen Startup Weekend mars 2012 – 03/23/2012 – Rouen , France
• Halifax Startup Weekend 03/2012 – 03/23/2012 – Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada
• Charlottesville Startup Weekend – 03/23/2012 – Charlottesville VA, United States
• Trento Startup Weekend – 03/23/2012 – Trento Trentino alto Adige, Italy
• Copenhagen Mobility Startup Weekend March 23 – 25 2012 – 03/23/2012 – Copenhagen Staden Kobenhavn, Denmark
• Las Palmas Startup Weekend 2012 – 03/23/2012 – Las Palmas , Spain
• London Startup Weekend 03/2012 – 03/23/2012 – , United Kingdom
• Startup Weekend Orlando – 03/23/2012 – Orlando FL, United States
• Hackathon London – 03/23/2012 – London London, United Kingdom
• Startup Hackathon Melbourne – 03/23/2012 – ,
• Hack with emoction – 03/23/2012 – ,
• Code and Kegs Hackathon – 03/23/2012 – Kalamazoo MI, United States
• Occupy Data Hackathon – Washington, DC – 03/24/2012 – Washington DC, United States
• HackNY Spring Hackathon Bus- Cambridge, Providence & New Haven – 03/24/2012 – Cambridge MA, United States
• Boston Baseball Hack Day 2012 – 03/24/2012 – Dorchester MA, United States
• Mozilla MDN Hack Day in NYC – 03/24/2012 – New York NY, United States
• Music Hackday Amsterdam – 03/24/2012 – Amsterdam NH, Netherlands
• Sensis / Pollenizer Hackathon – 03/24/2012 – Sydney New South Wales, Australia
• Hackathon Monterrey 3.0 – 03/24/2012 – Monterrey Nuevo Leon, Mexico
• Open Data Hackathon 1.0 Gatineau – 03/24/2012 – Gatineau Quebec, Canada
• Advanced Application Development Day – 03/24/2012 – Baltimore MD, United States
• HackNY Spring Hackathon Bus- Philadelphia, Princeton, New Brunswick – 03/24/2012 – New York NY, United States
• HackVAN 2012 – 03/24/2012 – Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
• Startup (Military) Veterans Weekend/Hackathon – 03/24/2012 – San Francisco CA, United States
• Transporter Hackathon (and Designathon) – 03/24/2012 – San Francisco CA, United States
• Unleash Your Ninja Geek Hackathon – 03/24/2012 – New York NY, United States
• Hack on the Record – 03/24/2012 – Richmond Surrey, United Kingdom
• HackDay Factory DataSources – 03/27/2012 – Paris Ile De France, France
• Cucumber & Friends Hands-On Hackathon – 03/27/2012 – ,
• Two-day Campus Hackathon on HTML 5 / WebWorks – 03/30/2012 – New York NY, United States
• Stamford Startup Weekend – 03/30/2012 – Stamford CT, United States
• Austin Startup Weekend #3 – 03/30/2012 – Austin TX, United States
• Lehigh Valley Hack 2012 – 03/30/2012 – Bethlehem PA, United States
• Paris Startup Weekend – Special Edition Tech – 03/30/2012 – , France
• Startup Weekend Budapest 2012 March – 03/30/2012 – Budapest Budapest, Hungary
• Startup Weekend Orange County 2 (SWOC) 3/30 – 03/30/2012 – Orange CA, United States
• HackPrinceton Spring 2012 – 03/30/2012 – Princeton NJ, United States
• Lean Startup Machine Philadelphia – 03/30/2012 – Philadelphia PA, United States
• Startup Weekend Adelaide – 03/30/2012 – Adelaide South Australia, Australia
• Windows 8 hackathon – 03/31/2012 – København Hovedstaden, 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.