HI. I’M JON GOTTFRIEDDeveloper Evangelist at twilio

Hacker Historian !

@JonMarkGo

HISTORY | GREP ‘HACKATHON’

BY JON GOTTFRIED

FOR HACKCON 2014

1975

HACKATHONS PER MONTH ON HACKERLEAGUE

1982 - DREXEL UNIVERSITY

1983

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1999

OPENBSD

• June 4-6, 1999

• Focus on IPSEC

• Calgary, Alberta

• 10 developers

• communal

SUN MICROSYSTEMS

• June 15-19, 1999

• Palm V

• John Gage challenge

• competitive

HACKATHONS != STARTUPS

2005 - SUPER HAPPY DEV HOUSE

FACEBOOK

2006 - YAHOO!

2007 - STARTUP WEEKEND

2009 - MUSIC HACK DAY

2010 - HACKNY

2010 - TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT

2011 - PENNAPPS

2013 - MEGA MHACKS

WHAT IS NEXT?

HACKING IS ART

THANK YOU!Jon Gottfried

Developer Evangelist at twilio @JonMarkGo

jon@twilio.com