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Bug Squashing Party
A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest; a portmanteau of Hacker culture, hacking and marathon) is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time such as 24 or 48 hours. They are often run using agile software development practices, such as Sprint (software development), sprint-like design wherein computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, user interface design, interface designers, product managers, project managers, domain experts, and others collaborate intensively on engineering projects, such as software engineering. The goal of a hackathon is to create functioning software or hardware by the end of the event. Hackathons tend to have a specific focus, which can include the programming language used, the operating system, an application, an API, or the subject and the demographic group of the programmers. In other cases, there is no restr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wikimedia Hackathon Prague 2019 - Group Photo - CLK
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