Aaron Swartz International Hackathon 2026

Celebrating Aaron's life and projects by SecureDrop, Free Law Project, OpenLibrary, Creative Commons, EFF, OnionPress & more!
About this Event

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 and the projects he worked on that continue to improve our lives.

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 ()

San Francisco projects will be updated continuously here:

Projects so far:

SecureDrop (Freedom of the Press Foundation):

SecureDrop:

Github:

Internet Archive:
Open Library:

A general description of the Open Library is .

Here’s you can work on at the hackathon (or anytime really :)

Open Library:

Github:

More Internet Archive projects coming soon!

Onion Press:

Onion Press:

Github (1):

Github (2):

Creative Commons:

Quantifying the Commons:

The Quantifying the Commons project measure the size and diversity of the commons–the collection of works that are openly licensed or in the public domain

A good entry point is:

Github: