The Hackathon Toolkit (ht) [codeathon] is a toolkit designed to help you build and run fun, successful hackathons.
A codeathon is a team competition in which teams of 1-6 people compete to write the best program to solve a specific problem, typically within 24 hours. Learn more about what codeathons are.
ht codeathon is a toolkit built on the command line to help you run your own codeathons. ht codeathon can help with things like creating the problem statements, generating the ranking page, making sure there are no duplicate submissions and much more!
The ht codeathon toolkit is built by Kevin Hu and is currently under development. If you have any questions or comments about it, feel free to email Kevin Hu at kvhu@mit.edu.
ht Codeathon is a competition for computer programmers to solve a programming problem. In this event, teams of up to three people compete for a chance to win prizes. Learn more about ht Codeathon here.
What is the ht codeathon?
ht Codeathon is a competition for teams of up to three people to work on a real world problem that needs solving with code. The aim of the event is to bring together people from all over the world and across all ages who are interested in technology, design, and education.
The competition will take place online from January 1st – December 31st 2016 and will be held at various locations in Europe and North America.
The Hackathon Toolkit is a community effort to create the best codeathon experience possible. We believe in providing the most useful tools for organizers and participants alike, and we need your help.
The Hackathon Toolkit is designed to make it as easy as possible for you to get started, whether you are creating a small hackathon on your own or working with a large organization.
If you want to create wealth, it will help to understand what it is. Wealth is not the same thing as money. Wealth is as old as human history. Far older, in fact; ants have wealth. Money is a comparatively recent invention.
Wealth is the fundamental thing. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have wealth without having money. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you wanted, you wouldn’t need money. Whereas if you were in the middle of Antarctica, where there is nothing to buy, it wouldn’t matter how much money you had.
Wealth is what you want, not money. But if wealth is the important thing, why does everyone talk about making money? It is a kind of shorthand: money is a way of moving wealth, and in practice they are usually interchangeable. But they are not the same thing, and unless you plan to get rich by counterfeiting, talking about making money can make it harder to understand how to make money.
Money is a side effect of specialization. In a specialized society, most of the things