Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon

2013-01-24T08:01:37Z

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In memory of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz Aaron Swartz], and in coordination with a [[Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons|world-wide effort]], Noisebridge will be hosting a hackathon starting '''Friday, January 25th''', and continuing through '''Sunday, January 27th'''.

== Intro ==

Aaron was a hacktivist and friend of many in our community. He helped create RSS 1.0; contributed to Creative Commons; was an early builder of Reddit, where he's often acknowledged as a co-founder; created the [http://webpy.org/ web.py] framework; and more recently, became a data liberator, first with PACER and then with scholarly articles from JSTOR, both of which got him into trouble with the law.

Aaron's [http://demandprogress.org/ Demand Progress] project helped stop SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act in the US, which threatened to have far reaching unintended consequences.

Aaron Swartz committed suicide on Jan. 11, 2013, but his work on making the world a better place should not die with him. Join us for two days of understanding his work and contributing to keep his memory and projects alive.

(This section adapted with permission from the [http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial Bangalore hackathon].)

== Event Details ==

'''When''': 7pm Jan. 25 - 7pm Jan. 27

'''What''': Come learn new skills and work together on projects that Aaron would have liked. Themes include open information access, sharing and preserving human knowledge, hacking for social/political justice, and techno-activism.

'''Organizers''': [[user:yan | yan]], [[user:Turkshead | shannon]], [[user:Mct| mct]]

'''Remote collab''': [https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front mailing list]

The event is free, but we'll have donation boxes for purchasing food and project supplies. BYO-snacks-and-energy-drinks.

== Projects ==

There are a bunch of project ideas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=1 here]. Most of them need someone to volunteer to be the point of contact.

== Schedule ==

TBD. If you want to give a talk or a workshop, add your info to the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=2 workshop/talks list].

== Who's going? ==

[[user:yan | yan]]

[[user:Turkshead | shannon]]

[[user:Mct| mct]]

[[user:Davidme | davidme]]

[[user:judytuna | judytuna]]

[[user:Lizzard | Liz]]

[[user:zestyping | Ping]]

[[user:gardner | gardner!!]]

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Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon