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What do you get when you combine a global financial services, media, and data company that employs 5,000 software developers headed by a founder who is heavily into philanthropy? If you're Bloomberg[2], you get a series of company-sponsored hackathons where employees, community members, students, and others come together over a weekend to hack on open source tools, including Python, Perl, and Eclipse. In his Lightning Talk, "Software Philanthropy for Everyone," at the 16th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE[3]), Bloomberg's head of open source engagement, Kevin Fleming[4], shared his insights on what it takes to host a successful hackathon. (Hint: getting people to volunteer their time