[Building Sakai] "Hackathon"

[Steven Githens]

Steven Githens wrote:
> 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 ).
>   

Oops, I guess Sprints are a shorter subset of Hackathons  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#Sprints

-s

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