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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:

  1. Event Name
  2. Organization's name
  3. Event website
  4. Average number of attendees
  5. What support do they provide for people who attend the Hackathon for the first time. Please summarize and provide links.
  6. What mentoring support do they provide. Please summarize the program and provide links.
  7. How do they find/prepare the list of tasks that will be worked on at the hackathon? Please summarize and provide links.
  8. 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?
  9. Summary of the flow of the event / how does the event run from start to finish. Is it structured or unstructured?
  10. 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.

Task tags

  • documentation
  • hackathons
  • events

Students who completed this task

JeremyNguyen, kompang_guy, onebignick

Task type

  • assessment Outreach / Research
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2019