BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, July 16, 2025), the Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the projects that ...

As Tholfsen talked about the hackathon project, then shared his screen and went through the features Learning Tools offered, Pittman started crying. “I was blown away, because there aren’t a lot of ...

Leading up to this week, employees had access to an internal website that listed more than 3,000 hackathon projects they could join. On Monday, teams gathered inside giant tents on Microsoft’s ...

Only being able to choose to one event, I shadowed the UW’s VR guru, Tom Furness, as he judged the virtual reality projects that emerged from the two-day hackathon.

In the summer of 2016, he said, GlobalHack intends to put on its biggest hackathon yet, with a $1 million prize. It will probably last longer than a weekend and will also focus on a civic project.

As you may have gathered from those examples, hackathon projects don’t have to be technical — there can be marketing campaigns, or other projects that don’t require writing any code.

Timeline started as a hackathon project in late 2010 with a team of two full-time engineers, an engineering intern, and a designer. It took the four of them one night to build a working demo.

On the second day of a civic hackathon this past weekend, where more than 100 tech workers gathered to create “AI solutions” to San Francisco’s issues, a winner emerged: An AI agent that provides help ...