Seedhack is a weekend long hackathon focused on a particular industry.

The project's supporters rallied to help and the hackathon went on almost as planned.

The idea was for a "hackathon" with developers producing open source solutions.

How would you describe the "hackathon" as a concept?

Then the main work of the hackathon begins, which can last anywhere from several hours to several days.

What is a "successful" outcome from a weekend hackathon?

In Washington, the day before the conference (December 14), we're have a big open source hackathon.

Developer competitions such as hackathon events fall under this category of open innovation.

For example, Facebook's Like button was conceived as part of a hackathon.

Floxx are well known for their hackathon culture.

The event included 1-2 days of presentations, BoF meetings and hackathon sessions.

In 1999, the conference played host to an event called the Hackathon, a challenge set by John Gage.

"Hackathon" have been trademarked without opposition by nachtausgabe.de GmbH, a german company.

On Monday, Darpa said it had not cut off all financing for the project, just money for the hackathon.

The name "F8" derives from the tradition at Facebook of having a big eight hour Hackathon just after the event.

The event was dubbed "the Hackathon".

Random Hacks of Kindness is another popular hackathon, devoted to disaster management and crisis response.

WaterHackathon is a hackathon dedicated to hacking problems related to water-related issues, such as:

Consider hosting a hackathon.

Matt will produce and star in a thriller film titled Hackathon, a whodunit horror/thriller.

What's a hackathon?

In 2011, Alcorn co-founded Hack the Future, a technology festival and hackathon for elementary school children.

Several of the Random Hacks of Kindness projects have seen continued development beyond the initial "hackathon".

Music Hack Day, a hackathon for music-related software and hardware applications, is a popular event, having been held over 30 times around the world since 2009.

Meanwhile, Facebook itself celebrated the occasion with an all-night "hackathon" on the night before the IPO.