In 2025, we hosted San Francisco’s inaugural Good Neighbor Hackathon and Community Night!
It was a wonderful evening of Good Neighbor project demos, community building, and civic hacking. Here’s what we have in store for 2026:
What is a civic tech hackathon?
Civic tech hackathons are unique. While other hackathons focus on building something quickly-- whether or not it ever gets implemented or used-- civic tech thrives on three things: 1-- a deep understanding of community needs, 2-- forming partnerships across government, non-profit, and community organizations, and 3-- understanding our role in existing communities, infrastructure and processes. Civic tech projects are built for longevity, by embedding into policy, infrastructure, and community life.
SF Civic Tech (formerly Code for San Francisco) was founded in 2012 when Code for America launched its brigade network. We have been running a weekly hack night in San Francisco every Wednesday ever since-- for thirteen years!
