Definition
Hackathon is an event in a scrum team, where individual members are allowed to create their own code, features, or other materials of their choice. It generally lasts an entire iteration, and is built into a release schedule.
Origin
The term has been created independently by both the developers of OpenBSD, and the marketing team of Sun. These usages both first happened in 1999.
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