The reading group, as the name would indicate, has been largely hands-
off. A number of us, in a rather informal poll conducted based on
those in my vicinity at the time, were interested in a hackathon.

The rough sketch so far is as follows:

* Random teams from the pool of people -- probably two or three people
per team.
* Have a list of problems determined before hand.
* Have a data set for those problems, the city of Vancouver, and many
others around the world are offering up large data sets to play with.
* Allow some time for the teams to get to know each other and figure
out what problem they wish to tackle, with what technologies, and let
them setup and environment (we don't want to be futzing with things,
and reading docs).
* We take one evening and hack away.
* Likely at a later date, due to the interest of time, we can review
the entries.

So, first off what's the level of interest?