From [1]: A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest)
is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in
software development, including graphic designers, interface designers
and project managers, collaborate intensively on software projects.
You will find a lot of misuse of this term. But please remember the
actual meaning. Just teaching someone a tool (say git/video
editor/vim), or writing few lines example HTML is *not* a hackathon/hackfest.
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
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