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I like the idea, but I don't think it would work. Let's look at the aspects of a Hackathon: - People might not like it, but part of hackathons is the social side: meeting hackers and other like-minded people. Meeting them online you can do anyday, wether it's on HN, Reddit, Stackoverflow or whatever else. - The woah, they're doing something, i should too" feeling. You can partially copy that using desktop streaming and that stuff, but still it's too easy to just walk away from it, when you're not around those people physically. For exactly the same reason as why people are so much ruder online than that they are in real life: you don't see the people on the other end. Introduce webcams, you might say, but still I don't think any virtual connection can fully replace the feeling of a Hackathon. -It's also way too easy to cheat. Fair enough, it's quite easy to cheat at Hackathons anyway, but again, people are ruder online than in real life, and thus more likely to cheat. Okay, it might turn out to be a nice little event for a bunch of people, but I don't think it'd come anywhere near a "real" Hackathon. |