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Hackathons
Explore:Events

What is a hackathon?

In the context of ImageJ, a {% include wikipedia title='Hackathon' text='hackathon'%} is a coding spree, or if you want, a one or two-week brainstorm session where scientists with programming skills sit together and work in a low-distraction, high-energy environment to advance the software side of their research. Typically, results get accomplished much faster (read: days instead of weeks or months) than without hackathons, because the setting is ideal to discuss advanced ideas with similar-thinking scientists and ideas can sprout much faster. Sometimes, results are achieved that would not have been possible without a hackathon at all.

{% include video platform='youtube' id='ZDZvoJX3PDM' footer='The "hackathon effect" in effect!' %}

Why?

First and foremost, hackathons are fun. The participants like what they are working on, and rarely have the same opportunities to talk to and inspire each other about their ongoing research.

Also, hackathons are the perfect excuse to concentrate on a particular subject without distractions. A lot gets done at a hackathon (see right!).

Origin of the term hackathon

The term comes from the original meaning of {% include wikipedia title='Hack %28technology%29' text='hack'%}, i.e. a clever and unforeseen way to use or improve a technical system.

It is {% include wikipedia title='Hackathon' text='not clear whether Sun's marketing team or OpenBSD were first'%}, combining the words hack and marathon to form hackathon.

Ever since, OpenBSD held annual hackathons during which OpenBSD was improved in leaps and bounds.

In 2007, the first hackathon revolving around neuro-science was taking place at HHMI Janelia Research Campus. In a sense, it can be seen as the first Fiji hackathon, since Fiji was born in the wake of that hackathon, and probably would not have happened without it.

ImageJ hackathons

ImageJ has benefitted from many hackathons over the years:

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When

Where

Who

Topic

2007 Summer

HHMI Janelia
Ashburn, VA, USA

{% include person-list ids='acardona|bene51|jefferis|hanchuan|dscho|StephanPreibisch|axtimwalde|rasband|Arnim Jenett|Julie Simpson|Torsten Rohlfing|Yuriy Mishchenko' %}

Neuroscience

2008 Apr 21 -
2008 Apr 30

MPI-CBG
Dresden, Germany

{% include person-list ids='acardona|bene51|ysis|chalkie666|frederikfly|tinevez|dscho|hinerm|StephanPreibisch|axtimwalde|tomancak' %}

Fiji

2008 Dec 8 -
2008 Dec 13

INI
Zürich, Switzerland

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Fiji

2009 Mar 23 -
2009 Apr 03

MPI-CBG
Dresden, Germany

{% include person-list ids='dscho|acardona|tinevez|bene51|iarganda|chalkie666|hinerm|tomancak|StephanPreibisch|axtimwalde|Raju Tomer|Misha Kudryashev' %}

Segmentation

2010 Mar 14 -
2010 Mar 27

EMBL
Heidelberg, Germany

{% include person-list ids='acardona|axtimwalde|bene51|miura|ctrueden|dscho|iarganda|larrylindsey|hinerm|StephanPreibisch|tnargsirrah|vkaynig' %}

Fiji

2010 Oct 12 -
2010 Oct 23

LBNL
Berkeley CA, USA

{% include person-list ids='frederikfly|dscho' %}

Running Micro-Manager inside Fiji

2011 Jan 27 -
2011 Feb 13

WID
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='iarganda|paulbarber|acardona|bdezonia|arthuredelstein|afraser|frederikfly|grislis|tnargsirrah|hinerm|luisibanez|LeeKamentsky|larrylindsey|melissalinkert|hinerm|tpietzsch|StephanPreibisch|ctrueden|axtimwalde|dscho|bene51|tomancak|eliceiri|ricklentz|Mark Rowley' %}

Multidimensional visualization

2011 Dec 9 -
2011 Dec 19

MPI-CBG
Dresden, Germany

{% include person-list ids='jburel|Stephane-D|bdezonia|dietzc|mdoube|Fab14|frederikfly|hornm|chalkie666|tomka|alex-krull|melissalinkert|hinerm|joshmoore|tpietzsch|StephanPreibisch|ctrueden|dscho|bene51|tomancak|Peter-Gabriel-Pitrone|eliceiri|Fernando Carrilo|Jiri Matas|Jurgen Mayer' %}

Interoperability

2012 Oct

Universität Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany

{% include person-list ids='hornm|dietzc|tpietzsch|dscho' %}

KNIME+Fiji

2013 Jan 22 -
2013 Jan 25

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='thewtex|ctrueden|dscho|hinerm' %}

{% include github org='scifio' repo='scifio-imageio' label='SCIFIO ImageIO plugin' %}

2013 apr 14 -
2013 Apr 18

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='iarganda|dscho|ctrueden' %}

Trainable Weka Segmentation

2013 Apr 27 -
2013 May 3

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='StephanPreibisch|tpietzsch|ctrueden|dscho|bdezonia|hinerm|grislis' %}

ImgLib2

2013 Sep 9 -
2013 Sep 13

Institut Pasteur
Paris France

{% include person-list ids='tpietzsch|tinevez' %}

MaMuT, BigDataViewer

2013 Nov 14 -
2013 Nov 27

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='dietzc|dscho|ctrueden' %}

KNIME+ImageJ2

2014 Mar 4 -
2014 Mar 13

Universität Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany

{% include person-list ids='ctrueden|dscho|dietzc|hornm' %}

ImageJ Ops |- valign="top" |

2014 Mar 20 -
2014 Mar 21

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='jburel|pwalczysko|ctrueden' %}

{% include github org='imagej' repo='imagej-omero' label='ImageJ-OMERO' %}

2014 Jul 7 -
2014 Jul 10

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='marktsuchida|ChrisWeisiger|dscho|stuyvenberg|ctrueden|hinerm' %}

Micro-Manager and OpenSPIM

2014 Sep 14 -
2014 Sep 18

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='dietzc|bnorthan|hinerm|ctrueden|apal4|yuminguw|awalter17|Ginger Pocock' %}

ImageJ Ops + KNIME

2014 Oct 13 -
2014 Oct 17

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='tpietzsch|StephanPreibisch|axtimwalde|dscho|ctrueden|hinerm' %}

ImgLib2

2015 Jan 19 -
2015 Jan 27

FREIRÄUME
Konstanz, Germany

{% include person-list ids='dietzc|ctrueden|hinerm|LeeKamentsky|tpietzsch|fjug|dscho|iarganda|gab1one|seebacherd|kmader|angrauma|Squareys|tibuch|patrick-winter-knime|AndreasBurger|Tobias Kötter' %}

ImageJ Ops + KNIME + CellProfiler + more

2015 Apr 12 -
2015 Apr 17

HHMI Janelia
Ashburn, VA, USA

{% include person-list ids='StephanPreibisch|tpietzsch|axtimwalde|tomancak' %}

Multiview-Reconstruction and BigDataViewer

2015 June 29 -
2015 July 3

BIMSB/MDC
Berlin, Germany

{% include person-list ids='StephanPreibisch|dietzc|emmenlau|StephanJanosch' %}

Parallelization of Multiview-Reconstruction
and integration with ImageJ Ops & KNIME

2015 Jul 27 -
2015 Jul 31

HHMI Janelia
Ashburn, VA, USA

{% include person-list ids='axtimwalde|ctrueden|hinerm|tpietzsch|tomka|bhoeckendorf|fernandoamat|Phillip Keller' %}

SCIFIO performance and generality

2015 Sep 05 -
2015 Sep 15

WID + LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='ctrueden|hinerm|dietzc|tpietzsch|axtimwalde|bnorthan|fjug|thewtex|jaywarrick|tferr|biovoxxel|etadobson|awalter17|lnyng|yuminguw|guneetsinghmehta|Bio7|kbellve|Akramhar|miura|marktsuchida|ChrisWeisiger' %}

ImageJ2 Learnathon + ImageJ Ops

2016 Jan 12 -
2016 Jan 22

KNIME Konstanz Regional Office
Konstanz, Germany

{% include person-list ids='dietzc|ctrueden|hinerm|hornm|tpietzsch|fjug|royerloic|skalarproduktraum|haesleinhuepf|stelfrich|kmader|kephale|imagejan|drtjre|tibuch|Squareys|seebacherd|patrick-winter-knime|AlexanderFillbrunn|Nico Hoffmann|Timo Sachsenberg|Julianus Pfeuffer|Temesgen H. Dadi' %}

KNIME Image Processing

2016 Jun 19 -
2016 Jun 28

HHMI Janelia
Ashburn, VA, USA

{% include person-list ids='axtimwalde|tpietzsch|ctrueden|dietzc|kephale' %}

Metadata rich images

2016 Jul 5 -
2016 Jul 14

KNIME Konstanz Regional Office
Konstanz, Germany

{% include person-list ids='dietzc|patrick-winter-knime|tpietzsch|skalarproduktraum|ctrueden|hornm|stelfrich|kephale|rimadoma|kmader|AndreasBurger|MarcelWiedenmann|SimonSchmid|irrwitz|Squareys|AlexanderFillbrunn|imagejan|tibuch|StefanoWoerner|cmongis|hoerldavid|Nico Hoffmann' %}

KNIME Image Processing + 3D viz

2016 Dec 6 -
2016 Dec 16

MPI-CBG
Dresden, Germany

{% include person-list ids='fjug|tpietzsch|tomancak|ctrueden|axtimwalde|hanslovsky|kephale|rimadoma|tinevez|dietzc|patrick-winter-knime|skalarproduktraum|royerloic|haesleinhuepf|hkmoon|tibuch|MarcelWiedenmann|hoerldavid|milkyklim|maarzt|xulman|chaubold|Jonas Massa' %}

Fiji & KNIP

2017 Feb 21 -
2017 Feb 26

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='tpietzsch|axtimwalde|dietzc|ctrueden|awalter17' %}

ImgLib2

2017 Jun 7 -
2017 Jun 14

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='dietzc|ctrueden' %}

ImageJ Ops

2017 Sep 20 -
2017 Sep 29

KNIME Konstanz Regional Office
Konstanz, Germany

{% include person-list ids='dietzc|maarzt|tibuch|imagejan|gab1one|AlexanderFillbrunn|Jon Fuller|Squareys|chaubold|stelfrich|hornm|fjug|Treiblesschorle|milkyklim|kmader|Julianus Pfeuffer|tpietzsch|mp007|StephanPreibisch|Jonas Probst|René Rahn|ctrueden|SimonSchmid|frauzufall|xulman|MarcelWiedenmann|HedgehogCode|patrick-winter-knime' %}

KNIME Image Processing, ImageJ Ops, Ilastik

2017 Oct 17 -
2017 Oct 18

UConn Health
Farmington, CT, USA

{% include person-list ids='jcschaff|ctrueden' %}

Virtual Cell + ImageJ2

2017 Dec 4 -
2017 Dec 15

MPI-CBG
Dresden, Germany

{% include person-list ids='fjug|tpietzsch|tomancak|ctrueden|hanslovsky|kephale|rimadoma|tinevez|dietzc|skalarproduktraum|royerloic|haesleinhuepf|hkmoon|tibuch|MarcelWiedenmann|hoerldavid|milkyklim|maarzt|xulman|chaubold|PetrBainar|awalter17' %}

Fiji & KNIP

2018 Apr 22 -
2018 May 2

University of Idaho
Moscow, ID, USA

{% include person-list ids='kephale|axtimwalde|dietzc|ctrueden|maarzt|tpietzsch|royerloic|bnorthan|skalarproduktraum|marktsuchida|Robert Wiese' %}

sciview

2018 May 16 -
2018 May 18

Galvanize
San Francisco, CA, USA

{% capture content %} Dan Toloudis (AICS)|Dyche Mullins (UCSF)|Lisa Harrylock (AICS)|Tom Goddard (UCSF)|Molly Maleckar (AICS)|Tom Ferrin (UCSF)|Graham Johnson (AICS)|Samuel Lord (UCSF/HHMI)|Basu Chaudhuri (AICS)|Ambrose Carr (CZI)|Megan Riel-Megan (AICS)|Jeremy Freeman (CZI)|Dave Williams (AICS)|Nicholas Sofroniew (CZI)|{% include person id='ctrueden' %}|Arne Bakker (CZI)|Syuan-Ming Guo (CZ Biohub)|Andréa Clavijo (CZI)|Deep Ganguli (CZI)|Shalin Mehta (CZ Biohub)|Tony Tung (CZI)|Sarah Kefayati (CZ Biohub)|Anitha Krishnan (CZ Biohub)|{% include person id='0x00b1' %}|Norah Klintberg (CZ Biohub)|Eric Perlman (Johns Hopkins)|Oana Carja (CZ Biohub) Benny Lin (U Texas Austin)|Jeremy Maitlen-Shephard (Google) {% endcapture %} {% include person-list ids=content %}

Bioimage Analysis in JavaScript, Python + Java

2018 Oct 31 -
2018 Nov 06

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='dietzc|tpietzsch|marktsuchida|ctrueden' %}

ImgLib2, Micro-Manager

2018 Dec 09 -
2018 Dec 14

MPI-CBG
Dresden, Germany

{% include person-list ids='ctrueden|chaubold|dietzc|gab1one|HedgehogCode|MarcelWiedenmann|maarzt|frauzufall|tpietzsch|skalarproduktraum|turekg' %}

Hacking

2019 Jan 17 -
2019 Jan 29

IT4Innovations
Ostrava, Czechia

{% include person-list ids='fjug|tpietzsch|tomancak|dietzc|tibuch|MarcelWiedenmann|maarzt|xulman|PetrBainar|awalter17|gab1one|Treiblesschorle|mp007|frauzufall|HedgehogCode|bogovicj|NicoKiaru|Jana Klímová|kozusznik|Michal Krumnikl|Manan Lalit|emilmelnikov|Pavel Moravec|Václav Svatoň|tischi|turekg|Tomas Vicar|Marwan Zouinkhi' %}

Parallelization and HPC

2019 Sep 18 -
2019 Sep 24

KNIME Konstanz Regional Office
Konstanz, Germany

{% include person-list ids='mr-c|sverhoeven|ctrueden|dietzc|tpietzsch|MarcelWiedenmann|DanielBogenrieder|frauzufall|HedgehogCode|AtR1an|LauLauThom|KFDing|ChristianAlbrecht|gab1one|Treiblesschorle' %}

KNIME

2019 Dec 9 -
2019 Dec 18

CSB Dresden
Dresden, Germany

{% include person-list ids='hanslovsky|ctrueden|tpietzsch|skalarproduktraum|tibuch|fjug|thewtex|stelfrich|haesleinhuepf|MarcelWiedenmann|emilmelnikov|oeway|xulman|tomancak|uschmidt83|frauzufall|HedgehogCode|NicoKiaru|mangalp|m-novikov|tischi|MLbyML|BobHanson|wolny|turekg|tomasvicar|davidackerman|lagru|axon900|arrmunoz' %}

Python+Fiji

2021 Jun 1 -
2021 Aug 31

Online (Gather Town) organized by
IT4Innovations

{% include person-list ids='tomancak|kozusznik|Michal Krumnikl|pm-cz|xulman|Dimitrios Stefanos Velissariou|Václav Svatoň|tischi|tpietzsch|ctrueden|imagejan|axtimwalde|frauzufall|oeway|bogovicj|marktsuchida|tinevez|LeeKamentsky|joshmoore|biovoxxel|sbesson|kephale|lannybroo|jburel|Nils Norlin|Estibaliz Gomez de Mariscal' %}

Wiki, Fiji

2022 Sep 5 -
2022 Sep 9

Prague, Czechia
organized by
IT4Innovations

{% include person-list ids='ksugar|tischi|tpietzsch|kozusznik|xulman' %}

Fiji+OME-NGFF

2022 Oct 3 -
2023 Oct 7

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='gnodar01|hinerm|ctrueden|elevans|gselzer' %}

CellProfiler+PyImageJ

2022 Dec 5 -
2022 Dec 8

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list limit=4 ids='oeway|hinerm|ctrueden|elevans' %}

ImageJ in the cloud

2023 Feb 6 -
2023 Feb 10

Human Technopole
Milan, Italy

{% include person-list ids='beatrizserrano|carlosuc3m|cfusterbarcelo|tischi|ctrueden|dasv74|davidackerman|elevans|finglis|fjug|cateek|ivan-ea|tinevez|jdeschamps|lmoyasans|hinerm|mkitti|petebankhead|axtimwalde|tpietzsch|oeway' %}

Accessibility of deep learning models from Java

2023 Apr 15 -
2023 Apr 21

LOCI
Madison, WI, USA

{% include person-list ids='tinevez|tpietzsch|ctrueden|hinerm|elevans|gselzer' %}

TrackMate in 3D

2023 Jun 5 -
2023 Jun 9

SciLifeLab
Stockholm, Sweden

{% include person-list ids='oeway|carlosuc3m|cfusterbarcelo|ctrueden|JonasKlotz|thewtex|gnodar01|HedgehogCode|Craig Russell|Andréa Papaleo|Simon Franchini|Tomaz Fogaça Vieira|Sebastian Soyer|Weize Xu|Iván Hidalgo|Vera Galinova' %}

Web and Cloud Infrastructure for AI-Powered BioImage Analysis

2023 Jun 10 -
2023 Jun 17

CSB Dresden
Dresden, Germany

{% include person-list ids='skalarproduktraum|kephale|ctrueden|elect86|Lukas Tempel|Jan Tiemann|tpietzsch|Ella Hierche|Samuel Pantze|xulman|Justin Buerger|Aryaman Gupta|Druhin Abrol|Wissal Salhi|Chiara Notaro' %}

scenery & sciview hackathon 2023: Let's get those to 1.0

2023 Jul 21 -
2023 Jul 22

Fairmont San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

{% include person-list ids='jni|Czaki|andy-sweet|brisvag|kevinyamauchi|GenevieveBuckley|royerloic|jluethi|kephale|ctrueden' %}

Post-CZI-Imaging-2023 hackathon: napari and sciview

2023 Oct 10 -
2023 Oct 18

CEITEC MU
Brno, Czechia

{% include person-list ids='nornil|xulman|StephanPreibisch|ctrueden|lleplat|minnerbe|mzouink|ekatrukha|Alanocallaghan|ksugar|elect86|smlpt|tpietzsch|trautmane|skalarproduktraum|frauzufall|carlosuc3m|stefanhahmann|Gabor Kovacs|Wojciech Jesionek|Johannes Girstmair|axtimwalde' %}

ImgLib2 and BigDataViewer

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