BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, April 29, 2025), The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its plans for a hackathon to improve free/libre software in honor of its fortieth anniversary. Free software projects and hackers at any stage of their development are invited to participate.
The FSF has been campaigning for software freedom for over forty years. As part of its celebrations, the organization is inviting the wider free software community (both projects and individual contributors) to participate in a global, online hackathon to help improve important libre software projects.
All free software projects, regardless of affiliation or (free) license, are invited to participate. As of now, the advanced GNU/Linux distribution and package manager GNU Guix, the boot software distribution GNU Boot, the media publishing system MediaGoblin, and the Free Software Directory, the FSF’s catalog of useful free software, have announced that they will submit a project. Interested contributors are encouraged to review the hackathon guidelines, which the FSF has made available online.