On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 09:14:47AM +0700, Paul Wouters wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2018, at 08:58, Lou Berger <lberger@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > and do a hackathon 'prize' award in the IETF plenary. > > I dislike the “competition” part of the hackathon. The goal is to > write running code. One group is not “better” than another. I wish it > would stop running a “competition” and stop announcing “winners”. I agree, "Hackathons" shouldn't be viewed as a competition. People work on different projects and all of the projects are to the benefit of us all. It makes no sense to view it in context of 'winning' - how can DNS and TLS compete? We need both. https://hackathon.guide/ Kind regards, Job