43 Upcoming Hackathons: Science, Post-PC Apocalypse, CleanWeb and Cereal?

Kin Lane, April 13th, 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 43 hackathons coming in the two weeks, all around the world.

Here is the complete list of 43 upcoming hackathons for the next two weeks:

• MEGA Startup Weekend 2 04/13 to 04/15 – 04/13/2012 – Mountain View CA, United States
• The Hackathon To Die For – 04/13/2012 – Turin, Italy
• Science Hack Day Nairobi – 04/13/2012 – Nairobi , Kenya
• Kansas City Startup Weekend – 04/13/2012 – Kansas City MO, United States
• Startup Weekend Notre Dame – 04/13/2012 – South Bend IN, United States
• Tampa Startup Weekend – 04/13/2012 – Tampa FL, United States
• Triangle Startup Weekend – 04/13/2012 – Raleigh NC, United States
• Tulsa Hackathon – 04/13/2012 – Tulsa OK, United States
• SoCraMOB 2012.2 – 04/14/2012 – Osnabrück NDS, Germany
• Hackathon sobre Big Data & Hadoop y sobre Social APIs and Web UI – 04/14/2012 – Bogotá Cundinamarca, Colombia
• Post-PC apocalypse Hackathon – 04/14/2012 – Cambridge MA, United States
• Indy Hack Day – 04/14/2012 – Indianapolis IN, United States
• The Big Hack – 04/14/2012 – Berkeley CA, United States
• CodeSF Hackday #3 – 04/14/2012 – San Francisco CA, United States
• Weekend Cereal Hackathon – 04/14/2012 – Sacramento CA, United States
• HYPE UP WEEKEND – 04/14/2012 – San Francisco CA, United States
• BLIP Legal Hackathon – 04/15/2012 – Brooklyn NY, United States
• HackMU – 04/20/2012 – Oxford OH, United States
• OpenData HackDay – April 2012 – 04/20/2012 – Ljubljana Bohinj, Slovenia
• RVA Hackathon – 04/20/2012 – Richmond VA, United States
• Startup Weekend Athens, Ohio – 04/20/2012 – Athens OH, United States
• Newcastle Startup Weekend – 04/20/2012 – Newcastle Upon Tyne , United Kingdom
• Philly Startup Weekend 3.0 – 04/20/2012 – Philadelphia PA, United States
• Spokane Startup Weekend – 04/20/2012 – Spokane WA, United States
• Tirana Startup Weekend – 04/20/2012 – Tirana , Albania
• TechRaising Santa Cruz Spring 2012 – 04/20/2012 – Santa Cruz CA, United States
• Atlanta Startup Weekend – 04/20/2012 – Atlanta GA, United States
• Cleanweb Hackathon Boulder – 04/20/2012 – Boulder CO, United States
• Startup Weekend Prague – April 2012 – 04/20/2012 – Praha , Czech Republic
• SpaceApps Challenge San Francisco – 04/20/2012 – San Francisco CA, United States
• SpringUp – Find your team. Build your startup. Pitch to investors. – 04/21/2012 – Belfast Belfast, United Kingdom
• Sask Hack 3.0 – 04/21/2012 – Saskatchewan, Canada
• April Hackathon at DreamHost – 04/21/2012 – Los Angeles CA, United States
• Hack the Future 4 – 04/21/2012 – Stanford CA, United States
• Dart Hackathon – Chandigarh, India – 04/21/2012 – Chandigarh Chandigarh, India
• HackRU: A Scarlet Knight of Hacking – 04/21/2012 – Piscataway NJ, United States
• Hackathon Social APIs & Web UI – 04/21/2012 – La Plata Buenos Aires, Argentina
• KidsCodeCamp – RailsConf 2012 – 04/22/2012 – Austin TX, United States
• Media Mash Hack Day – 04/22/2012 – New York NY, United States
• Dart Hackathon – Manipal, India – 04/22/2012 – Manipal Karnataka, India
• Rethink Presents: Hacker’s Weekend Demos – 04/22/2012 – Cambridge MA, United States
• Mobilizator – 04/23/2012 – Poznan Wielkopolskie, Poland

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 meant to be a positive term that drives innovation among developers.