On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Richard Eisenberg
In my experience, "hackathon" can refer to two very different sorts of events: hacking marathons (such as jacobsHack), where participants tend to work overnight to accomplish something amazing in a limited time; and hacker weekends (such as Hac Phi), where participants work on projects, socialize, and then (presumably) rest at night.
I've noticed this as well; my boss likes to use it in your second meaning, whereas I'm most familiar with the first meaning and tend to think of the second as "hacker-con". On the other hand, I have no answers to the questions (a) is there any recognition of this, or conventions for this, in the wider programming community; and (b) what makes more sense to other people. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net