[jefflinwood]

Hi,

I went to BattleHack Austin two years ago (and then to the world finals in San Jose), and really enjoyed it.

I would say that it doesn't fit into any of those categories - it's not a business pitch-a-thon, PayPal doesn't own your code, and it's not a recruiting deal either. BattleHack is still the best hackathon I've ever been to.

They're doing the BattleHack hackathons to raise awareness of their developer programs with coders, for a company like PayPal, it's not a lot of money to spend.

[mgkimsal]

Thanks for the info. I'm a bit concerned about the 'staying up for 30 hours' bit, but we'll see how that goes.