[BjornW]

Sad to see the word 'hackathon' being misappropriated by a bunch of companies seeking people to test their API's and maybe inspire a bit of new business developments for free.

OpenState.eu is as far as I understood part of this, which I find even sadder since nothing about this concept comes near their goals as stated on their site:

"Open State represents a community of developers and re-users of open data. We work on the basis of a number of open data programs around political transparency, education, culture and health care. Therefore we influence policy in the field of digital transparency, open government and freedom of PSI and data collected by the (semi) public sector."

Please stop using the word hackathon for a lame attempt at sharecropping people.