Re: Hackathons

...(accidentally sent the first...by accident)

And the way to do that is through hackathons. We are at a turning point in
Internet history, and we need legions of builders to join together to hack the
worlds problems away. You're right - the stuff we make these days is largely
trivial. But behind every trivial hack is a developer who's getting better at
his craft. And that means one more developer who's able to respond to the
times with a hack that helps in some way.

Enough, please. This is the future that folks like yourselves have enabled by
building the operating systems upon which we build our apps. Thanks are due.
Now embrace it, instead of being dicks. Flame wars, *they're* for script
kiddies.

[sorry if my prose isn't as eloquent as usual - sent from a cell]

On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Tomas Bodzar <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Abe Stanway <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi - can you tell me more about your hackathons? I'm working on software
to
>> organize hackathons, www.hackerleague.org, and I would love to see if you
>> might be interested in using Hacker League to run your next one.
>
> snippet from webpage
>
> Hackers
> We're awesome. Seriously. And we love building awesome stuff. But
> building awesome stuff isn't cool. You know what's cool? Building
> awesome stuff and winning awards for it. And then showing off those
> awards for everyone to see, immortalizing our awesomeness forever.
> Word up.
>
> I think that you have wrong title. That description is valid for
> script kitties :-)
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Abe Stanway
>> hackNY | Rutgers Social Media Lab
>> abe.is