Updated Friday October 16, 2026:
We are having an IN PERSON hackathon in San Francisco on Sunday November 8th!
Feel free to have one in your town, and you can use all of our materials and projects!
Write us at aaronswartzday @ gmail.com if you have an idea or project of your own that you’d like people to hack on. ^_^
We are excited to announce that there will be a hackathon at the Internet Archive on November 8, 2026 in celebration of Aaron’s memory.
Date: Sunday, November 8, 2026
Event start and end times: 10am-5pm PST
Lunch: 1pm-3pm (best time to come by if you just wish to hang out, eat pizza and be social)
Location: Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118 (click for directions)
Projects so far include:
Freedom of the Press Foundation:
SecureDrop: https://securedrop.org/
Github: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop
Internet Archive:
Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/
Github: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary
Onion Press:
Onion Press: https://onionpress.org/onionhome/
Github (1): https://github.com/brewsterkahle/onionpress
Github (2): https://github.com/Arikia/onionpress-1
Open Library:
A general description of the Open Library is here.
Here’s an explanation of the Open Library projects you can work on at the hackathon (or anytime really :)