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Research and answer questions about Open Source Hackathons
Search online and find 5 open source or non-profit related hackathons.
Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#What_is_a_Hackathon? to understand what a Hackathon is.
Then answer the following questions about each of the five hackathons:
- Event Name
- Organization's name
- Event website
- Average number of attendees
- What support do they provide for people who attend the Hackathon for the first time. Please summarize and provide links.
- What mentoring support do they provide. Please summarize the program and provide links.
- How do they find/prepare the list of tasks that will be worked on at the hackathon? Please summarize and provide links.
- Do they stay in the same location every year? If so, what is it? Or do they switch locations every year? If so, what were the last three locations?
- Summary of the flow of the event / how does the event run from start to finish. Is it structured or unstructured?
- Anything else interesting or unique that you would like to comment about this event.
You can answer by responding in the google code-in task or by attaching a PDF file. Please do not include the Wikimedia Hackathons, Wikimania Hackathons or any other Wikimedia events in your responses.
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JeremyNguyen, kompang_guy, onebignick