[eesmith]

I went to a hackathon in another country and was worried about explaining that name to the border guard. To my relief, the topic didn't come up.

[VortexLain]

You could have told the guard you're going to a competitive programming contest.

[eesmith]

It was a non-competitive hackathon - different groups working on related project s get together to promote inter-group relationships.

[trumpdong]

Programming conference

[eesmith]

Sure. I had something like that planned. But that doesn't change the title of the event.

[trumpdong]

The title might be XYZ Hackathon but the word Hackathon isn't really meaningful outside of that scene, so if asked what it is, you'd say a computer programming conference or something like that. When I tell people about Revision, I don't say "demoparty", I say "computer art festival", because that's not subculture jargon.

[eesmith]

And if the border guard asks for the name of the computer art festival, to check if it exists?