I know from personal experience that big hackathons with 70+ contestants who compete in groups for price money is a very useful tool to get people interested.
If the payout would be in steem and they have to program steem related things... I think you get the picture.
I have never been to a hackathon. I wonder what resources would be needed to organise one...
You may not even need to organise one. I went to one this year where Large Sponsors chose the possible tasks to do with their enterprise/product. I won't dox my location here, but I'll send you a link to their site in discord!
Interesting, got the link thank you.
Hackathons look good...