This is an open source community of people who advocate that Hackathons be the building block of education, work, funding and sustainable communites.

DEFINITION

The word "hackathon" is a portmanteau of the words "hack" and "marathon".

The term hack refers to any work-around solution.

The word marathon refers to a long-distance race, completed by running, walking , or a run/walk strategy.

The word Thon come from hack-a-thon

ORIGIN

OpenBSD's apparent first use of the term referred to a cryptographic development event held in Calgary on June 4, 1999, where ten developers came together to avoid legal problems caused by export regulations of cryptographic software from the United States. Since then, a further three-to-five events per year have occurred around the world to advance development, generally on university campuses.

For Sun Microsystems(now Oracle), the usage referred to an event at the JavaOne conference from June 15 to June 19, 1999; there John Gage challenged attendees to write a program in Java for the new Palm V using the infrared port to communicate with other Palm users and register it on the Internet

OUR MASTER PLAN

THE VISION (What do you want?):

Let's make hackathons the Future of Work, Community, Funding and rapidly build a worldwide digital platform that will support the hackathon community.

THE VALUES (What's important about it?):

Established what was most important about that vision. It set the principles and beliefs that guided it (in priority):

i.e:
-impact
-diversity
-enabler
-education
-innovation
-recruitment
-collaboration
-marketing
-positive 
-inclusive

THE METHODS (How do you get it?):

Illustrated how we would get the job done
-by outlining the actions and the steps that everyone needed to take.
i.e:
1. Build the Thon Community
2. Thon community will reach out to the the hackathon communities and schools to educates on the values and benefits of organizing or attending hackathons  
3. Identify new technology like the blockchain, Artificial intelligence or Virtual reality to power the platform
4. Finalize product specification and technical architecture
5. Rapidly develop the product specification to beta and production stages
6. Build partnerships with schools, professors, the media, tech companies, non profit organizations
7. Build a launch plan

OBSTACLES (What might stand in the way?):

Identified the challenges, problems, and issues we would have to overcome to achieve our vision.

i.e:
1. The vision is lost
2. The Community does not growth
3. Developers are not interested to join
4. Product managers/business development person are not interested to join
5. No funding to scale
6. No impactfull partnerships or influencers

MEASURES (How will you know when you have it?):

Specified the actual result we aimed to achieve; often this was defined as a numerical outcome.

i.e:
-Prototype is state-of-the-art
-High-quality functional sysyem
-Partnerships are online and integrated
-Thon is regarded as a leader and visionary
-More hackathons are organized
-More people participate to hackathons
-More hackathons are organized in Africa
-School have integrated hackathon as part of their curriculum
-More school are sending their students to participate to hackathons and incentivizing schools for their attendance
-More people are replacing their conference model with hackathon model.
-Town hall meetings adopt the hackathon model
-Hackathon can be organizers with eaze
-More people use hackathons as ther main funding platforms
-More people use hackathonsto get educated
-More people use the hackathon platform to send money abroad to support projects
-Hackathon becomes a proof of work
-A Hackathon protocol is created

COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE MODEL

built follwoing the tiny hackathon model :-)

-commuity members will be randomly mixed
-30 mn to 1h collaborative and positive contest
i.e:
-Best team to propose incentive to participate to this kind of governance 
-Best team to create a strategy to implement Hackathon as part of school curriculum: target African counties
-Best team to pitch kpi that will make thon successfull
-Best team to pitch the vision
-Best team to have a community growth strategy 
-Best team to propose best solution to keep the team motivated , engaged
-Best team to propose conflict resolution 
-Best team to propose solution
-Best team to propose technology
-Best team to propose target audience
-Best team to propose partners , sponsors 
-Best team to pitch the mission statement
-Best team to pitch a code of conduct : diversity, friendly, inclusive  etc
-Best team to detects risks and mitigation
-Best team to find the total amount of conferences, seminars, forums organized 
-Best team to keep contributors motivated knowing that everybody have a full time job.
-Best team to identify the valuation of this project
-Etc ....