List of hackathons in New Orleans, United States in 2015

It's the 2015 Geophysics Hackathon! Brought to you by OpenGeoSolutions, Palladium Consulting, and Agile*.  We'll be hacking the weekend before SEG in New Orleans. Come and spend the weekend geeking out on geoscience in one of the coolest workspaces in Louisiana. There will be coffee. There will be tacos. Hackers form teams of up to 4 people. You can come with a team, or come on your own and you'll find a team no problem. Come with ideas, come with skills, or come with questions.  All are welcome — programmers, interpreters, geologists, mathematicians — we'd love for this to be your first hackathon. The weekend is all about having fun with science and code, hatching new projects, and meeting new people.  More details on the wiki, and watch our blog for details too. Read about last year's event. Or watch this video on the fierst event, in 2013:

   NOLATech Week is coming back for it’s 3rd year!  Focused on utilizing the entire greater New Orleans community, NOLATech Week will connect families and professionals alike from all over the world, ranging from tech companies, entertainment businesses, government agencies, environmental organizations, non-profits as well as health and science leaders. In 2014, NOLATech Week hosted 55 events with over 1700 attendees from all over the world. With such unprecedented growth, we expect an even larger, more diverse attendance than with exctinging new programs. NOLATech Week Quick Facts: This is a community created, funded, and crafted, event--by the community; for the community/ Working thru a non-profit fiscal sponsor, we will operate with a dedicated team of volunteer staff, and a board of directors committed to utilizing technology to good; The vast majority of Events are free and open to the public; Marquee Events are planned for the week, and we look forward to revealing them soon; The goal is to have countless Community Events, created by community organizers such as yourself. As long as your event is free, and in the spirit of the Week, it will be listed on the schedule as a "NOLATech Week Community Event." Go to our website to submit a Featured event; All events are intended to educate, engage, facilitate collaboration, or grow awareness, for all businesses, organizations, and members of our community; Events can (and will) take many different forms. Potential event formats include: panels, classes, pitch competitions focused on sustainability, startup features, family tech activities, new product releases, hackathons for change, cocktail parties, competitions to bring in companies from out of state, city-wide cultural/educational events, film competitions, and more; Events will be going on all over the city, featuring a wide variety of our community's resources; Sponsor and Partner donations will be collected to make the overall week a success. Community created events will also collect sponsoships directly, which is intended to help them offset their costs. The GOAL of NOLATech Week is to come together as a global community to celebrate all of the organizations, businesses, products, and people that the  New Orleans unique. This is the perfect platform to show how much we've already started to play a major part in the world's tech economy and how our city is perfect for innovations in Music, Health, Education, Art, Food, Energy, Entertainment, and so much more.