Hackathon/Code Sprint/Hackergarten event?

[jonbullock]

How about running a Hackergarten event - http://hackergarten.net/ ?

Andres Almiray who seems to be involved in arranging them at most JVM based events is the maintainer of the Gradle plugin for JBake so I'm sure I could get him to plug any event on Twitter etc.

[carwyn]

Very similar to code sprints and hackathons.

[jonbullock]

This type of event might be more practical when there is a enough interest in a specific language event.

They usually work well at conferences such as Devoxx which is pretty much JVM focused.

[carwyn]

A multi language hackathon would work. Set a specific task and implement in small teams however they want.

[carwyn]

Inspiration:

http://www.splash-jam.com/
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/03/splash-jam-games-development/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-02-26-game-jam-at-the-top-of-the-world

[jonbullock]

Along the game theme there is: http://ludumdare.com/

[Tsany]

http://devpost.com/hackathons

[Tsany]

In addition to running a new North Wales Tech Hackathon event, how about booking a couple of rooms (in, say, Ty Menai) for one or two existing "online" hackathons, to house several North Wales teams that are taking part?