[Building Sakai] "Hackathon"

[Steven Githens]

branden at uwindsor.ca wrote:
> What is a "hackathon" ? Does anyone have more info about how the 
> Hack-a-thon stream will be working in the Boston conference?
>

I like to think of them as short periods of time ( usually between 1 and 
5 days ) where everyone hangs out and bangs out code in a focused 
hardcore environment without a lot of the daily distractions you find at 
work a lot.  Some folks call them Sprints:    
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(software_development)

They are awesome fun things to have at conferences ( and a lot of times 
are considered the highlights of such get togethers ).

-s

> Thanks,
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> Branden Visser
> LMS Application Programmer - Information Systems Services
> Information Technology Services
> University of Windsor
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