We have monthly hackathons in the Philly area for people working on or interested in startups (primarily Internet related). A hackathon is an event with no specific agenda--everyone comes and "hacks" on their projects. It is a great place to meet other local hackers and get feedback/help on your projects. Every month we have the meetup at a local Philly company where cool hacking is going on. We have pizza for dinner, hang out and talk about our startup experiences, and hack on our projects toge …

COOLLaboration (an offering of COOL Labs) is a monthly cross-border community makerthon. It joins the maker/hacker, design, artistic, educational, charitable, entrepreneurial and social communities once a month and during highly attended event weeks (SxSW, Social Media Week, Maker Faire, Make Music NYC, Figment, etc.) COOLLaboration: -involves communities working together across borders to address common problems of concern -enables communities to explore the role of cultural exchange and dialog …

If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access the Meetup API in Go!?), whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open f …