FSF40 Hackathon

As part of the FSF40 celebrations, we’re inviting you to participate in a global, online hackathon to help improve important libre software projects.

When we first announced plans to celebrate the Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) fortieth anniversary, we promised to do so in the spirit of bringing the international free software community together. On November 21–23, we invite you to participate in a global, online hackathon to help improve important libre software projects. It’s at the core of the FSF’s mission to foster free software development. With this hackathon, we want to spotlight the indispensable and hard work free software hackers are carrying out in the background, often without being seen and valued enough.

Register now to participate in the FSF40 hackathon.

Participating projects

Here is the list of projects so far that have declared that they will participate in the FSF40 hackathon:

• Don’t track bugs: track valuable discussions, a tool to help contributors track bugs, patches, featured requests, and other valuable discussions shared on mailing lists;
• The Free Software Directory, the FSF’s free software catalog;
• GNU Boot, a boot software distribution that can replace nonfree boot software like BIOS or UEFI on specific computers;
• GNU Guix, a reproducible package manager;
• Lewa, an interactive platform to learn African writing systems;
• LibreVR, a project working on ethical replacements for nonfree VR games;
• op-mattermost, OpenProject integration for Mattermost; and
• Org Mode, the notes management and organizer for GNU Emacs.

You don’t need to be a developer to participate in the FSF40 hackathon. There will be tasks for all kinds of interests and every experience level. In addition to advancing the participating projects, the goal of this hackathon is also to learn from each other, acquire skills, and sharpen them.