Slowly launching http://hackathonia.com to help organize, promote, and capture hackathons. Currently using with just one event, but would be awesome to gather feedback while continuing to improve the utility. Thanks.
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#3I know there are a lot of hackathons happening out there. Does Hackathonia aim to be a platform to launch and run them? I think there could be some useful tools around hackathons, helping organizers organize and promote them, helping teams get involved in as many as they want to get involved with, or helping sponsors find a hackathon to sponsor that suites their mission. From the page you've got up now I'm not sure who you are aiming to help or how.
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#4Doh! Did not realize the link would not function in the description, so here it is again: http://www.hackathonia.com
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#5We're using Hackathonia to manage the Hackathon at SocialDevCamp Chicago and we're excited at the progress. I think Hackathonia is a concept whose time has come because it will help Hackathon organizers and participants manage hackathons easily and build up clout over time. Pete's really passionate about this and I couldn't be happier to see SDCChi as the inaugural event to test this site.
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#6I know there are a lot of hackathons happening out there. Does Hackathonia aim to be a platform to launch and run them? I think there could be some useful tools around hackathons, helping organizers organize and promote them, helping teams get involved in as many as they want to get involved with, or helping sponsors find a hackathon to sponsor that suites their mission. From the page you've got up now I'm not sure w…
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#7I know there are a lot of hackathons happening out there. Does Hackathonia aim to be a platform to launch and run them? I think there could be some useful tools around hackathons, helping organizers organize and promote them, helping teams get involved in as many as they want to get involved with, or helping sponsors find a hackathon to sponsor that suites their mission. From the page you've got up now I'm not sure w…
Thanks Sean. I am working the founder to test the site for a conference coming up in August, and hope this provides an easy way for me to promote, organize and collect information for their hackathon portion. On the developer/participant side - the site will also provide a showcase for products and projects built during hackathons - a sort of deviantart.com for developers. There is a better run down of the "plan" at http://www.hackathonia.com/About
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#8Too bad it doesn't work outside of the US (unless you somehow map the zip 2100 to a part of Copenhagen, Denmark).
I'm amazed how many sites completely disregard the international audience.
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#9Love the Concept and layout. I would definitely use it but, alas, I am not in the USA and have nothing I can fit into 'Show near zip'. Any chance you could internationalize it?
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#10I've taken some time lapses at hackathons...
But it's less amazing when it's a soft hack than it is when it's a hard hack.
Hackerspaces.org has a monthly synchronous hackathon that happens at spaces across the globe as well.
Details here: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Synchronous_Hackathon