Monday, 3rd December 2012
What makes an awesome hackathon? I want to host one at the LAUNCH Festival and I have never run one.
One of the hardest parts to coordinate of a hackathon (we tend to call them hack days here in the UK) is the demos at the end. If you have 50+ teams giving a demo you need to make sure everything runs SUPER smoothly or the whole process will quickly jam up.
[... 499 words]What are some programming conferences and events being held near Detroit, MI?
We have a crowdsourced listing of conferences and events in Michigan here: Conferences in Michigan | Lanyrd—two that might be relevant to you are Agile and Beyond 2013, 9th March 2013 and Kalamazoo X Conference 2013, 13th April 2013
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