Talk:Hack Day

Hack Day vs Open Hack Day
A couple of comments here, for wider discussion. Firstly it seems to me like the name of this page should be "Hack Day" rather than Open Hack Day. Then it would be possible to put in more about the origins of Hack Day inside Yahoo as well as to more easily talk about Hack Day London and Hack Day India.

I agree - it seems weird that this is called Open Hack Day. There's no evidence that anyone has ever called the series of events that Yahoo hold an Open Hack Day, nor is there any evidence that anyone else significant has held events under the Open Hack Day imprint. Similarly, the London event needs more coverage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.59.192.116 (talk) 03:09, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

The Yahoo Hack Day I participated in in 2006 was called "Yahoo Hack Day", as I labeled it in my blog post shortly after the event itself, and thus started this article accordingly.

Subsequently, the official Yahoo Hack Day site, hackday.org, at some point started referring to "Open Hack Day" (e.g. see it as of today 2012-03-04), which is thus evidence that Yahoo (owner of the domain name) *has* held at least one event called "Open Hack Day". This may require some digging to find out *when* the term Open Hack Day was actually used by Yahoo (perhaps introduced by?).

Tantek (talk) 07:17, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Media coverage and information about Hack Day London
The absence of Hack Day London also seems a bit strange, given that it was a joint Yahoo/BBC event of comparable size to the US event, got hit by lightning and was held at Alexandra Palace. Thoughts?

Geeks Bust Out Brollies as Rain Falls Indoors at Hack Day London


 * BBC News: Hackers meet for coding festival
 * Wired News: Geeks Bust Out Brollies as Rain Falls Indoors at Hack Day London
 * One of the organisers at plasticbag.org: A Hack For Europe
 * Reuters: "Hackers" meet for Yahoo, BBC open day in London
 * Web developers gather for Hack Day
 * Announcement on Digg
 * SEO/SEM JOURNAL: Yahoo! Hack Day Here in London
 * Blogosphere reactions from Yahoo Hack Blog
 * ZD Net Asia: BBC, Yahoo get developers to hack Web apps
 * BitTech: Hack Day London displeases God —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.229.90.124 (talk) 16:37, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

General Hack Day?
Other companies have Hack Days too! Hack Days are - for other companies - days when employees are free to develop whatever hobby projects they may have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.209.12.90 (talk) 09:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Hack Day London 2009
I mention for the sake of completeness here that there's another Hack Day event happening in London organised by Yahoo! in Mid-May 2009. It might be worthy of a mention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tecoates (talk • contribs) 10:43, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

More general history and format
As the term Hack Day has evolved over the last few years I've edited the article to take this into account whilst also retaining it's origins and history - I'd be interested in your thoughts and areas where I could expand or provide more evidence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthewcashmore (talk • contribs) 23:57, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Atlassian's Fedex Day pre-dates Hack Day?
Atlassian had been having Fedex Days for over a year before Yahoo had them:
 * http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/000495.html

Fedex Days were also mentioned as 'inspiration' for Yahoo's hack days:
 * http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/06/14/yahoo-hack-day-tomorrow-and-some-of-my-inspirations/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.243.22.109 (talk) 08:23, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Consider Moving To List of Hack Days
Two things have occurred since the inception of this article: 1. Most of this article has become a list-style article 2. A similar article, Hackathon, has been created and expanded to encompass much of the generic meaning of "Hack Day" or "Open Hack Day"

Thus I think it makes sense to: 1. Move/rename this article to "List of Hack Days" so as to preserve the history/continuity of this article. (I don't seem to have the ability to rename/move this article). 2. Create a new redirect article "Hack Day" that redirects to "Hackathon" 3. Add a to the first/intro section of the "List of Hack Days" article.

Thoughts?

Tantek (talk) 07:17, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I think part of the issue is that the term "Hack Day" can have three different meanings: (1) a pure synonym for "hackathon", (2) a term for a subset of hackathons (maybe the shorter ones), and (3) Yahoo!-specific events. Of these, I think the first is the most important one - I haven't seen any source that offers a specific definition of "hack day" separate from "hackathon", and some "hack days" do seem to run over longer than a day. In general, I think whether an event is called a "Hackathon" or a "Hack Day" (or something else) is purely an arbitrary decision. And I don't know if Yahoo-specific Hack Days are important enough to justify their own article (this article started out as Yahoo-specific, but then got expanded). What do you mean by "List of Hack Days" - a list of events with "Hack Day" in their title, or a list of hackathons? Yaron K. (talk) 17:53, 5 March 2012 (UTC)