Hackathon, or Giving back to the community through Sharing Tech Knowledge

So, in the past week I actually signed up to be part of something new for my local community, a event called PG (Prince George) Hacks, a Hackathon!  But what is a Hackathon anyway? 

To the majority of the world many view the idea of Hacking as the practice of cracking security to access information for nefarious purposes. In reality though this hackathon, actually is a place for Programmers, Database Designers, Web Developers and IT Specialists to take a day, gather together and create applications and processes which will help make the "world work a little better"

PG Hacks takes place on Oct. 19th and, is something I'm looking forward to participating in. more information can be found but looking up , on Twitter, #PGHACKS or bring up the following website

http://www.startupprincegeorge.ca/events/pg-hacks/