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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Ben Houston: The Importance of Hackathons</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2011-12-14T18:30:00" datetime="2011-12-14T18:30:00">Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 6:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2011-12-14T21:00:00" datetime="2011-12-14T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202392291'><span class='fn org p-name'>Puppet Labs on NW Park (old office)</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">411 NW Park Ave., Suite 500</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97209</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=411%20NW%20Park%20Ave.,%20Suite%20500,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Difficulty iterating? Stuck in a rut at work? Throw caution to the wind and host a hackathon! You can finally play with Shiny Thing 2.0, show it off to your friends and teammates, all in a format that will encourage you to work in small, iterative slices.</p> <p>Growing in popularity in recent years, hackathons provide a venue for folks to get together, explore new ideas and (hopefully!) build working software in the span of a couple of days. Come learn about their use in the corporate space and the public space at large, how to sponsor one, and how to make the event create lasting effects. We'll also explore the parallels between agile development and hackathons, and how each is good practice for the other.</p> <p>Ben Houston is a pragmatic software engineer who is currently in love with mazes and geometry.</p> <p>This event is free and is at Puppet Labs. It begins at 6:30 pm with pizza, sponsored by PNSQC (Many thanks to both Puppet Labs and PNSQC for supporting agile in Portland).</p> <p>The program starts at 7:00 pm.</p> <p>After the program you're invited to join us for a no-host gathering at a nearby brewpub for further discussion of chicken wings and other agile conundrums.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://agilepdx.org">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>