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Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-11-08T21:12:55Z

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The [[Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons]] generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done!

The Second Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon is scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 8. Our official page is [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org here] but this wiki is for coordinating projects.

We are also using #aaronswhack on irc.oftc.net and can be reached on the list org@aaronswartzhackathon.org

[https://pad.textb.org/p/AaronSwHack video etherpad active during the events]

==Motivation==
"We were part of an inchoate, ad-hoc community of collaborators who helped each other learn how to code. No, not how to write code ‒ how to write code for the purpose of changing the world." - Zooko, on memories of Aaron ([http://zooko-on-aaronsw.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-1-by-zooko-wilcox-ohearn-written.html full post here])

==Format==
Structure of the event (condensed from meeting notes):
*In advance at each location, (at least) one presenter is chosen to "pitch" what they consider a vital project. This project should be eminently hackable -- the presenter or another volunteer who knows the project well should be prepared to help interested parties get involved, at many skill levels.
*The event starts like a hybrid (un-)conference, with introductions and short presentations. The pre-announced presenter(s) do these presentations, and during the introductions people can offer or request talks, which are added as time permits on the spot. Total presentation time should be ~1.5-2hrs. Presentations are recorded and immediately posted online (or streamed), for remote participants or people at other hackathons to see.
*Then there's open time to work.
*Finally, at the end of the event, there are 1.5-2hrs of demonstrations of results. Anyone can sign up on the site with info about project status to get a demo slot. Demos are also recorded and posted online, cross-referenced with individuals and projects.

==Proposed Dates==
*Set up a event webpage - [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org Done] (Sept.)
*Recruit hacklabs (as hosts) and activists (as PMs) - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Get signal-boosting web coverage - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Run events - Nov. 8 weekend

==Projects to Work on==

* tor2web and jot2tor (virgil, SF)(oliver, BOS) : Tor2web makes it possible for internet users to view content from Tor hidden services. It's online in a (mostly) functioning form at http://tor2web.org . Jot2tor is an extension of this allowing users to use Aaron's jottit.com framework to easily create pages hosted on hidden services. Naturally, pages created via jot2tor are accessible from tor2web. Aaron and I actually worked on both of these projects until his death.

*Fork the Law ([[User:Christie|Christie]] ([[User talk:Christie|talk]]), SF) Fork the Law has spent the last few months working out what ordinary people need to know in order to effect legislative change. We're now working on condensing this down to a set of technical design requirements. We'd like to dig into turning the requirements into code, integrating existing open source applications and other services wherever possible. The repository for the development effort is https://github.com/fork-the-law/hancock.

*Archiving Aaron's writings (psawaya, SF). I think it'd be helpful to produce an archive of Aaron's writings, as the formatting on his blog isn't well-organized or good for reading on mobile devices. Some projects might include producing ePub and MOBI versions, organizing and tagging his writing, making it searchable, and perhaps even making it annotatable. It may be possible to build off of [https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought this project]. I recall not finding a Creative Commons declaration on Aaron's blog, though this project certainly seems to be in alignment with his ideals. Yan suggested talking about it with Noah Swartz.

*Mailpile (brennan, Berlin): https://github.com/pagekite/mailpile

*SecureDrop (yan/micah/garrett?/james?, SF): a platform for whistleblowers to transfer documents to newspapers directly. See https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.
*SecureDrop (samthetechie, Berlin) https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/securedrop + https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.

*Prosecutorial Overreach/Underreach: The DOJ turns a blind eye to war criminals and Wall St crooks yet throws the book at activists like Aaron. I've registered 14 domains that are variations of the three main prosecutors in Aaron's trail (i.e. carmenortiz.org, stephenheymann.org, etc.) The names Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann are already synonymous with abuse of power. Let's cement that while drawing attention to other activists/whistleblowers who are being prosecuted for non-crimes. While we're at it, let's give prosecutors something useful to do by highlighting well documented but unprosecuted crimes (I'm looking at you John Yoo/Jamie Dimon/James Clapper).

*Transparency Toolkit (shidash, ?): Unfortunately Shidash is unavailable, but maybe someone else could do it?

*Restore the Fourth placeholder. We'll know more closer to the date about which of our projects would benefit the most from this. Options include the various encrpytion/meshnet/other coding aspects, blog posts and other content development, or drafting policy documents and researching for coalition-building.

*Indie Box: Set up our own web applications on cheap Linux devices (like the Raspberry Pi) in our own homes: http://indieboxproject.org/

*Overview Project (Ian, SF): an open-source tool to help journalists (or anyone!) find stories in large sets of documents, by automatically sorting them according to topic and providing a fast visualization and reading interface. It's a way to quickly make sense of huge leaks, FOIA responses, and document dumps using a combination of clever algorithms and human intuition. Remember, transparency is meaningless if nobody's watching. Homepage: http://overview.ap.org/ Source: https://github.com/overview

*Client-side encryption (Daniel, SF): a library for creating web apps that encrypt user data before sending it to the server. This is an attempt at keeping the convenience of cloud storage while retaining data privacy.

*http://freelawproject.org non-profit providing free access to primary legal materials, developing legal research tools, and supporting academic research on legal corpora. Creators of CourtListener and Juriscraper. Easiest project for new contributor would be to extend juriscraper to cover another state court website not yet covered. See code on bitbucket.org. Free Law Machine is a virtual machine containing all dev tools and code one needs to get started.

==Activists/Groups to reach out to==
Feel free to add to the list or contact someone you know at one of these!

*Praveen (SF) - California prison reform/hunger strike stuff (contacted)
*Willow (Cambridge?) - Hackers Without Borders (contacted)
*EFF - pgpbot, other tech projects? (contacted)
*Internet Archive - (will host reception in SF)
*Mozilla - (contacted)
*Tor - NEED CONTACT
*Freedom of the Press Foundation - (contacted)
*OpenITP - (contacted)
*Mailpile - (contacted)
*Wikimedia - (contacted)
*Maplight - Contacted
*Restore the Fourth - (contacted)
*Demand Progress
*Digital Right Northwest (Seattle - Contacted)

==Locations==
Please include the main organizer name and email.
This list is non-authoritative: please see [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org the official website] for an up-to-date list of locations.

*Nosebridge, SF - CONFIRMED, yan (yan at mit dot edu)
*Boston, MA - CONFIRMED, willow leading (Media Lab)
*Chicago, IL - CONFIRMED, brian (brianhray at gmail dot com)
*Seattle, WA - CONFIRMED, Jigsaw Renaissance, Noah leading
*Austin - IN PROGRESS, samantha mahool 
*Netz39, Germany - IN PROGRESS, katharina holstein
*NYC - CONFIRMED, 630 Flushing Ave, rmo (rmo at numm . org)
*Zagreb - CONFIRMED, david (david at numm . org)
*Hacklab Barracas, Buenos Aires [http://wiki.hackcoop.com.ar/HackatonAaronSwartz Event Site] - CONFIRMED, nicolás reynolds
*Santiago Chile - CONFIRMED, hugo baronti hugo at baronti dot net in Sofa Santa Isabel 0151 web lab dot libr3 dot org
*Bangalore - contacted & interested, in progress
*Berlin - CONFIRMED, samuel carlisle 
*Amsterdam - CONFIRMED, TechInc Hackersspace, vesna manojlovic (becha at xs4all . nl)
**Talk to samthetechie at the c-base for more info
*Houston, TX (combined with civic hackathon) - jeff at januaryadvisors. com
*Paris
*London
*Tokyo
*Guatemala, CONFIRMED Café Barista, centro comercial Galerías Primma. Calzada Roosevelt Ciudad de Guatemala. www.slgt.org cflarrazabal en tigo.com.gt
*México, Hackerspace Rancho electrónico (ranchoelectronico.org), Asamblea RE ranchoelectronico@riseup.net

==San Francisco==
In memory of hacker activist Aaron Swartz, let's get together for a weekend to work on projects for social/political reform, information freedom, preserving our rights on the Internet, and making the world we want to live in. Everyone is welcome, regardless of whether or not you code. This event is being organized by [[User:Yan]], so get in touch if you have questions.

We'll be working on several open source projects simultaneously with developers from Tor, EFF, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Mozilla, and other organizations (see projects list above). All of them need your help, no matter who you are! Come find out how you can help us fight mass surveillance and protect whistleblowers, or work on something important that you've been putting off for years, or simply hang out and learn how to use encryption.

Note that the event kicks off at the Internet Archive on Nov 8 but will be at Noisebridge for the rest of the weekend.

If you're coming to the Internet Archive event on Fri, please RSVP via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ExJpzJY5uy8apNJGK8qPROgfoNXr0u1JdtaL7V8psKA/viewform. No registration is needed for the hackathon at Noisebridge.

===Schedule===
'''Nov. 8 (at the Internet Archive)'''
*5 pm: The [http://archive.org/about/contact.php Internet Archive] opens for early hacking! Yan and possibly others will be around to help people find projects to work on.
*6:30 pm: Reception starts at the Internet Archive. Come mingle.
*7:30 pm: The event kicks off at the Internet Archive on Friday evening with talks from Cindy Cohn (legal director of the EFF), Kevin Poulsen (editor of Wired), Brewster Kahle (founder of the Internet Archive), and others TBA.
*9 pm: Let's start hacking! (Until we get kicked out of the Internet Archive around 10 pm, at which point we might move to Noisebridge?)

'''Nov. 9 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am - ?: Hackathon starts up again at Noisebridge! We'll start with more project presentations and then spend the rest of the day working. Come by any time.
*4 pm: Impromptu cryptoparty

'''Nov. 10 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am: More hacking at Noisebridge!
*4 pm: DEMO TIME. Come demo what you've done over the weekend. Afterwards we'll head to the Sycamore for celebration.

===Who's going===
* [[User:Yan|Yan]]

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons

2013-11-08T21:05:53Z

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'''NB: Current planning has moved to [[Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_Series]]'''

In memory of hacktivist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz Aaron Swartz], there were a series of hackathons around the world in Jan.-Feb., 2013 dedicated to understanding Aaron's work and keeping his projects alive. This page is intended as a record of what was done at each of these hackathons. If you'd like to suggest project ideas or help organize stuff, see the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=0 coordination spreadsheet]. You can contact [[user:yan | the main coordinator]] for the worldwide effort via [mailto:yan@mit.edu email].

In order to provide some online continuity between events please feel free to use the [irc://irc.freenode.net/aaronsw #aaronsw] IRC channel, and the #aaronsw tag.

== Tehran ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Jan. 26-27, 2013
*Location: Physics Department of University of Tehran (Khayam building), Tehran, Iran
*Organizers: m.jalalvand@ut.ac.ir, crypto@groups.ut.ac.ir
*Website: http://groups.ut.ac.ir/grouphome.php?groupname=Open%20Source%20Cryptography

== Beirut ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Jan. 30, 2013. 20:00 (UTC+2)
*Location: [https://lambalabs.org/doku.php Lamba Labs Beirut Hackerspace], Beirut, Lebanon
*Organizers: @lambalabs
*Website: https://lambalabs.org/doku.php/events_30012013

We, at Lamba Labs, are joining the global hackerspace community with a memorial hack-a-thon and build night, in memory of Aaron Swartz. In order to answer Swartz's call for social change, we're humbly hosting a build night focused on projects that are geared towards social change in Lebanon, such as: creating a website for the country's Anti-Racism project, visualizing election data to prevent corruption, creating a low-power device for emergency broadcasting of location, creating artwork for public street installations to nurture public awareness…

Everyone's welcome to join and collaborate on existing projects or work on their own projects.

== Bangalore ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Jan 19 14:00 - Jan 20 08:00
*Location: [http://cis-india.org/ Centre for Internet and Society], Bangalore, India
*Organizers: anandology@gmail.com, kiran@hasgeek.com
*Website: http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial

=== Report ===

Here is a link to the playlist containing three videos from the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hacknight: http://hasgeek.tv/hasgeek/aaronsw-hacknight.

According to Kiran:

<blockquote>
*We had a discussion for nearly two hours on Aaron's life and work and it's relevance in India. We recorded the whole talk on video and will process that soon (need to confirm the audio is decent since we didn't use a mike and speakers). http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial/projects/1-what-did-aaron-do
*Anand Chitipothu followed up with an hour-long Web.py workshop. http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial/projects/4-web-py-workshop
*He's now working on making Web.py's SQL module standalone. http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial/projects/2-sql-py-web-db-as-a-separate-package
*Arun Raghavan and company have had success with extracting electoral data from PDF files to make it searchable. They're retired for the night and will resume tomorrow to fix issues with long names that wrap awkardly in the PDF file and confuse their parser. http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial/projects/7-liberate-electoral-data
*Anand also had some data to be processed that he's got a few enthusiasts helping him with. http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial/projects/5-liberate-some-public-data
*Shubhanshu Mishra's legal project had no takers, so he's left for the night. http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial/projects/6-online-legal-help
</blockquote>

A more detailed report is in the works and will be added soon!

== Cambridge, UK ==
*Organizers: adys.wh at gmail

== Tokyo ==

=== Details ===
*Dates:
*Location:
*Organizers: @jonwaller
*Website:

== Skopje / Zagreb / Belgrade / Ljubljana / Bratislava ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Jan 19, 18:00 - late
*Locations:
**kika - Skopjehacklab, Macedonia( http://b10g.spodeli.org/p/blog-page.html )
**hacklab in mama - Zagreb, Croatia ( http://wiki.razmjenavjestina.org )
**oosm - Belgrade, Serbia ( http://oosm.org/ )
**cyberpipe - Ljubljana, Slovenia ( https://www.kiberpipa.org )
**progressbar - Bratislava, Slovakia ( https://progressbar.sk )
*Organizers: nikola@henezi.com, ki.ber@kom.uni.st
*Website: http://piratepad.net/haackathon

== Vienna ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: February 15th 18:00 to February 17th 19:00
*Location: [https://metalab.at/ Metalab], Vienna, Austria
*Organizers: michael@emhofer.net
*Website: https://metalab.at/wiki/Hackathon_9

== Paris ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Jan 26 15:00 - Jan 27
*Location: [http://www.fabelier.org Fabelier], Paris, France
*Organizers: @Fabelier
*Website: http://fabelier.org/aaronsw-hackathon-hack-your-phd/

=== Report ===

A full gathering of hackers and data liberationists stayed through the night at Fabelier coding and organizing. Much energy coalesced around a controversial agreement between the national library and private corporations concerning book scanning, where the companies gain limited exclusive rights to the content scanned.

A Google Doc was used to organize thoughts and research:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LZ9PuJ-FeSBgrRWyTB3MXVjbVYQn4ztyLj1-GazKhBc/edit#heading=h.jvd48x78h9qc

Some photos from the night of the 26th:
http://numm.org/~rmo/asw-paris/

== St. Erme ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: sometime in Jan 17 - 27
*Location: [http://www.pa-f.net/ PAF], St. Erme, France
*Organizers: joshuah@mit.edu, njoliat@mit.edu
*Website:

== Amsterdam ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Feb 15, 2013 8-10pm
*Location: Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt 4 (Fablab entrance)
*Organizers: henk@waag.org,patrice@waag.org
*Website:http://waag.org/nl/event/im-aaron-swartz (in Dutch)

=== Report ===

It went remarkably well (immo ;-) with 18 people in attendance (we had invited ca 25), from a relatively broad spectrum of backgrounds.
Our intention was a no-pretense, convivial and conversational get together around a table (a big square in our case). The setting of the historic Anatomic Theatre (portrayed by Rembrandt) contributed also to the 'right' atmosphere with a large projection of Aaron holding a glass of (wine? beer? juice? hard liquor? ;-) and smiling to us.

We started with everyone reading for herself the translation of a letter by an Italian friend expressing some doubts about the hype around Aaron after his death, and our turbo-charged, technology addicted life-style in general. This was intended to steer the ensuing conversation away from mere 'more of the same' pronouncements toward self-reflexion and tuning down our ambitions and self-importance. It succeeded immo as a lively dialogue ensued about the reach and the limits of what we can do to combat the very forces that appeared to have contributed to Aaron's demise in the end.

As the attendance was quite varied (though as one of the participants rightly remarked, still limited to the 'digerati'), there was a good exchange of information and experiences, and people did indeed liaise in order to try to initiate fresh, and maybe unexpected, collaborative ventures.

We of course did not manage to tackle all issues that the occasion inspired us to consider, but that was to be expected - and in fact to be welcomed. Just as life itself, this was a (small) step in a never ending work-in-progress, and for progress. And it was heartening to see a consensus on fundamental values and a shared commitment to uphold them.

Raising a goblet of Schiedam Genever, the traditional West African custom to honour the departed, we closed the session with a reading of the last sentences of Jens Stoltenberg's remembrance speech for the Oslo/Utoya tragedy, which we think holds universal truth:
"Realise the shortness of existence, remember the good times we had together, and honour the dead by celebrating life".

(A fuller report - in Dutch - is posted at http://waag.org/nl/blog/im-aaron-swartz)

== Rio de Janeiro ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Feb 2 ?
*Location: [http://www.cultura.rj.gov.br/espaco/c4-biblioteca-parque-da-rocinha Biblioteca Parque da Rocinha? ], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
*Organizers: moreno.barros@gmail.com
*Website:

== San Francisco ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Jan 25 19:00 - Jan 27 19:00
*Location: [https://www.noisebridge.net Noisebridge], San Francisco, US
*Organizers: yan@mit.edu, shannon@scatter.com, mct@toren.net
*Website: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon

== Stanford Law School ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Jan 28 2013
*Location: [https://www.law.stanford.edu Stanford Law School], Stanford, CA, USA
*Organizers: tech@law.stanford.edu
*Website: https://www.law.stanford.edu/event/2013/01/28/the-legacy-of-aaron-swartz

== Boston ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Feb 2nd at 12 pm to Feb 3rd at 8 pm
*Location: [http://builds.cc/ BUILDS], Boston, US
*Organizers: shidash@shidash.com, spectranaut@gmail.com, brianbrian@gmail.com, bcourter@gmail.com, dannyc@bu.edu
*Website: http://builds.cc/wiki/index.php?title=Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_-_Info and https://www.facebook.com/events/277161625745533/

== New York ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Feb 3 10:00 - 19:00
*Location: [http://www.nycresistor.com NYC Resistor], New York, US
*Organizers: spocksplanet@gmail.com, cdjeremy@gmail.com, jonathan@jedahan.com
*Website: https://aaronshackathon.eventbrite.com/

== Washington DC ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Feb 2 11:00 - 23:00
*Location: [http://www.hacdc.org/ HacDC], Washington DC, US
*Organizers: josephbcurtin@gmail.com @nootrope
*Website: http://www.meetup.com/hac-dc/events/100321172/

== Chicago (Braintree) ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Feb 14 17:00
*Location: Braintree 111 North Canal Street #455, Chicago, IL 60606
*Organizers: chicago@python.org, brianhray@gmail.com
*Website: http://chipy.org

== Chicago (Pumping Station: One) ==

=== Details ===
*Dates: Feb 7
*Location: [http://pumpingstationone.org/ Pumping Station: One], Chicago, US
*Organizers: shekay@pobox.com
*Website: http://piratepad.net/BfOD8GoTb9

== Vancouver ==

=== Details ===
[[Image:Vhs_token_aaronsw.jpg‎|thumb|right|Presenters at Vancouver Hack Space get laser-cut tokens, which this time also had a portrait of AaronSw embossed onto them. ]]

*Dates: Jan 19 19:30 - Jan 20 1:00
*Location: [https://vancouver.hackspace.ca/wp/ Vancouver Hack Space], Vancouver, Canada
*Organizers: neilk@neilk.net
*Website: https://vancouver.hackspace.ca/wp/2013/01/10/super-happy-hacker-house-25-saturday-jan-19th-2013/

Super Happy Hacker House is a regular hack/socializing/lightning talks event at Vancouver Hack Space. We renamed it Super Sad Hacker House for this evening. There was a large portrait of Aaron added to the space for the day. I ([[User:Flipzagging|Neil K]]) opened the lightning talks with a brief presentation on AaronSw and we had a moment of silence. I don't know of any hacking project that anyone's working on in Aaron's memory specifically.

== Berlin (co.up) ==

=== Details ===

* Date: February 9th 12:00 - 18:00 (open-ended)
* Location: [http://co-up.de/ co.up], Berlin
* Organizers: Jan Lehnardt (@janl) & Alper Cugun (@alper)
* Website: http://janl.github.com/swhack-berlin/

We get together for a day, discuss what needs fixing on today’s internet and then go and fix it.

== Berlin (c-base) ==

=== Details ===

* Date: ?? Jan 2013 / Feb 2013
* Location: [http://www.c-base.org c-base], Berlin
* Organizers: samuelcarlisle@gmail.com // @samthetechie
* Website: http://janl.github.com/swhack-berlin/

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-10-29T19:09:04Z

Rmo: /* Locations */ indicate the tenuous nature of this wiki page

The [[Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons]] generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done!

The Second Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 8. Our official page is [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org here] but this wiki is for coordinating projects.

We are also using #aaronswhack on irc.oftc.net and can be reached on the list aaronswhack@numm.org

==Motivation==
"We were part of an inchoate, ad-hoc community of collaborators who helped each other learn how to code. No, not how to write code ‒ how to write code for the purpose of changing the world." - Zooko, on memories of Aaron ([http://zooko-on-aaronsw.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-1-by-zooko-wilcox-ohearn-written.html full post here])

==Format==
Structure of the event (condensed from meeting notes):
*In advance at each location, (at least) one presenter is chosen to "pitch" what they consider a vital project. This project should be eminently hackable -- the presenter or another volunteer who knows the project well should be prepared to help interested parties get involved, at many skill levels.
*The event starts like a hybrid (un-)conference, with introductions and short presentations. The pre-announced presenter(s) do these presentations, and during the introductions people can offer or request talks, which are added as time permits on the spot. Total presentation time should be ~1.5-2hrs. Presentations are recorded and immediately posted online (or streamed), for remote participants or people at other hackathons to see.
*Then there's open time to work.
*Finally, at the end of the event, there are 1.5-2hrs of demonstrations of results. Anyone can sign up on the site with info about project status to get a demo slot. Demos are also recorded and posted online, cross-referenced with individuals and projects.

==Proposed Dates==
*Set up a event webpage - [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org Done] (Sept.)
*Recruit hacklabs (as hosts) and activists (as PMs) - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Get signal-boosting web coverage - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Run events - Nov. 8 weekend

==Projects to Work on==

* tor2web and jot2tor (virgil, SF)(oliver, BOS) : Tor2web makes it possible for internet users to view content from Tor hidden services. It's online in a (mostly) functioning form at http://tor2web.org . Jot2tor is an extension of this allowing users to use Aaron's jottit.com framework to easily create pages hosted on hidden services. Naturally, pages created via jot2tor are accessible from tor2web. Aaron and I actually worked on both of these projects until his death.

*Fork the Law ([[User:Christie|Christie]] ([[User talk:Christie|talk]]), SF) Fork the Law has spent the last few months working out what ordinary people need to know in order to effect legislative change. We're now working on condensing this down to a set of technical design requirements. We'd like to dig into turning the requirements into code, integrating existing open source applications and other services wherever possible. The repository for the development effort is https://github.com/fork-the-law/hancock.

*Archiving Aaron's writings (psawaya, SF). I think it'd be helpful to produce an archive of Aaron's writings, as the formatting on his blog isn't well-organized or good for reading on mobile devices. Some projects might include producing ePub and MOBI versions, organizing and tagging his writing, making it searchable, and perhaps even making it annotatable. It may be possible to build off of [https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought this project]. I recall not finding a Creative Commons declaration on Aaron's blog, though this project certainly seems to be in alignment with his ideals. Yan suggested talking about it with Noah Swartz.

*Mailpile (brennan, Berlin): https://github.com/pagekite/mailpile

*SecureDrop (yan/micah/garrett?/james?, SF): a platform for whistleblowers to transfer documents to newspapers directly. See https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.

*Prosecutorial Overreach/Underreach: The DOJ turns a blind eye to war criminals and Wall St crooks yet throws the book at activists like Aaron. I've registered 14 domains that are variations of the three main prosecutors in Aaron's trail (i.e. carmenortiz.org, stephenheymann.org, etc.) The names Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann are already synonymous with abuse of power. Let's cement that while drawing attention to other activists/whistleblowers who are being prosecuted for non-crimes. While we're at it, let's give prosecutors something useful to do by highlighting well documented but unprosecuted crimes (I'm looking at you John Yoo/Jamie Dimon/James Clapper).

*Transparency Toolkit (shidash, ?): Unfortunately Shidash is unavailable, but maybe someone else could do it?

*Restore the Fourth placeholder. We'll know more closer to the date about which of our projects would benefit the most from this. Options include the various encrpytion/meshnet/other coding aspects, blog posts and other content development, or drafting policy documents and researching for coalition-building.

*Indie Box: Set up our own web applications on cheap Linux devices (like the Raspberry Pi) in our own homes: http://indieboxproject.org/

*Overview Project (Ian, SF): an open-source tool to help journalists (or anyone!) find stories in large sets of documents, by automatically sorting them according to topic and providing a fast visualization and reading interface. It's a way to quickly make sense of huge leaks, FOIA responses, and document dumps using a combination of clever algorithms and human intuition. Remember, transparency is meaningless if nobody's watching. Homepage: http://overview.ap.org/ Source: https://github.com/overview

*Client-side encryption (Daniel, SF): a library for creating web apps that encrypt user data before sending it to the server. This is an attempt at keeping the convenience of cloud storage while retaining data privacy.

==Activists/Groups to reach out to==
Feel free to add to the list or contact someone you know at one of these!

*Praveen (SF) - California prison reform/hunger strike stuff (contacted)
*Willow (Cambridge?) - Hackers Without Borders (contacted)
*EFF - pgpbot, other tech projects? (contacted)
*Internet Archive - (will host reception in SF)
*Mozilla - (contacted)
*Tor - NEED CONTACT
*Freedom of the Press Foundation - (contacted)
*OpenITP - (contacted)
*Mailpile - (contacted)
*Wikimedia - (contacted)
*Maplight - Contacted
*Restore the Fourth - (contacted)
*Demand Progress
*Digital Right Northwest (Seattle - Contacted)

==Locations==
Please include the main organizer name and email.
This list is non-authoritative: please see [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org the official website] for an up-to-date list of locations.

*Nosebridge, SF - CONFIRMED, yan (yan at mit dot edu)
*Boston, MA - CONFIRMED, willow leading (Media Lab)
*Chicago, IL - CONFIRMED, brian (brianhray at gmail dot com)
*Seattle, WA - CONFIRMED, Jigsaw Renaissance, Noah leading
*Austin - IN PROGRESS, samantha mahool 
*Netz39, Germany - IN PROGRESS, katharina holstein
*NYC - CONFIRMED, 630 Flushing Ave, rmo (rmo at numm . org)
*Zagreb - CONFIRMED, david (david at numm . org)
*Hacklab Barracas, Buenos Aires [http://wiki.hackcoop.com.ar/HackatonAaronSwartz Event Site] - CONFIRMED, nicolás reynolds
*Bangalore - contacted & interested, in progress
*Berlin - CONFIRMED, samuel carlisle 
*Amsterdam - CONFIRMED, TechInc Hackersspace, vesna manojlovic (becha at xs4all . nl)
**Talk to samthetechie at the c-base for more info
*Houston, TX (combined with civic hackathon) - jeff at januaryadvisors. com
*Paris
*London
*Tokyo

==San Francisco==
In memory of hacker activist Aaron Swartz, let's get together for a weekend to work on projects for social/political reform, information freedom, preserving our rights on the Internet, and making the world we want to live in. Everyone is welcome, regardless of whether or not you code. This event is being organized by [[User:Yan]], so get in touch if you have questions.

We'll be working on several open source projects simultaneously with developers from Tor, EFF, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Mozilla, and other organizations (see projects list above). All of them need your help, no matter who you are! Come find out how you can help us fight mass surveillance and protect whistleblowers, or work on something important that you've been putting off for years, or simply hang out and learn how to use encryption.

Note that the event kicks off at the Internet Archive on Nov 8 but will be at Noisebridge for the rest of the weekend.

===Schedule===
'''Nov. 8 (at the Internet Archive)'''
*5 pm: The [http://archive.org/about/contact.php Internet Archive] opens for early hacking! Yan and possibly others will be around to help people find projects to work on.
*6:30 pm: Reception starts at the Internet Archive. Come mingle.
*7:30 pm: The event kicks off at the Internet Archive on Friday evening with talks from Cindy Cohn (legal director of the EFF), Kevin Poulsen (editor of Wired), Brewster Kahle (founder of the Internet Archive), and others TBA.
*9 pm: Let's start hacking! (Until we get kicked out of the Internet Archive around 10 pm, at which point we might move to Noisebridge?)

'''Nov. 9 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am - sleepytime: Hackathon starts up again at Noisebridge! We'll start with more project presentations and then spend the rest of the day working. Come by any time.

'''Nov. 10 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am: More hacking at Noisebridge!
*4 pm: DEMO TIME. Come demo what you've done over the weekend. Afterwards we'll head to the Sycamore for celebration.

===Who's going===
* [[User:Yan|Yan]]
* Oliver

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-10-29T06:25:36Z

Rmo: /* Locations */ houston

The [[Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons]] generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done!

The Second Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 8. Our official page is [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org here] but this wiki is for coordinating projects.

We are also using #aaronswhack on irc.oftc.net and can be reached on the list aaronswhack@numm.org

==Motivation==
"We were part of an inchoate, ad-hoc community of collaborators who helped each other learn how to code. No, not how to write code ‒ how to write code for the purpose of changing the world." - Zooko, on memories of Aaron ([http://zooko-on-aaronsw.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-1-by-zooko-wilcox-ohearn-written.html full post here])

==Format==
Structure of the event (condensed from meeting notes):
*In advance at each location, (at least) one presenter is chosen to "pitch" what they consider a vital project. This project should be eminently hackable -- the presenter or another volunteer who knows the project well should be prepared to help interested parties get involved, at many skill levels.
*The event starts like a hybrid (un-)conference, with introductions and short presentations. The pre-announced presenter(s) do these presentations, and during the introductions people can offer or request talks, which are added as time permits on the spot. Total presentation time should be ~1.5-2hrs. Presentations are recorded and immediately posted online (or streamed), for remote participants or people at other hackathons to see.
*Then there's open time to work.
*Finally, at the end of the event, there are 1.5-2hrs of demonstrations of results. Anyone can sign up on the site with info about project status to get a demo slot. Demos are also recorded and posted online, cross-referenced with individuals and projects.

==Proposed Dates==
*Set up a event webpage - [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org Done] (Sept.)
*Recruit hacklabs (as hosts) and activists (as PMs) - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Get signal-boosting web coverage - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Run events - Nov. 8 weekend

==Projects to Work on==

* tor2web and jot2tor (virgil, SF)(oliver, BOS) : Tor2web makes it possible for internet users to view content from Tor hidden services. It's online in a (mostly) functioning form at http://tor2web.org . Jot2tor is an extension of this allowing users to use Aaron's jottit.com framework to easily create pages hosted on hidden services. Naturally, pages created via jot2tor are accessible from tor2web. Aaron and I actually worked on both of these projects until his death.

*Fork the Law ([[User:Christie|Christie]] ([[User talk:Christie|talk]]), SF) Fork the Law has spent the last few months working out what ordinary people need to know in order to effect legislative change. We're now working on condensing this down to a set of technical design requirements. We'd like to dig into turning the requirements into code, integrating existing open source applications and other services wherever possible. The repository for the development effort is https://github.com/fork-the-law/hancock.

*Archiving Aaron's writings (psawaya, SF). I think it'd be helpful to produce an archive of Aaron's writings, as the formatting on his blog isn't well-organized or good for reading on mobile devices. Some projects might include producing ePub and MOBI versions, organizing and tagging his writing, making it searchable, and perhaps even making it annotatable. It may be possible to build off of [https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought this project]. I recall not finding a Creative Commons declaration on Aaron's blog, though this project certainly seems to be in alignment with his ideals. Yan suggested talking about it with Noah Swartz.

*Mailpile (brennan, Berlin): https://github.com/pagekite/mailpile

*SecureDrop (yan/micah/garrett?/james?, SF): a platform for whistleblowers to transfer documents to newspapers directly. See https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.

*Prosecutorial Overreach/Underreach: The DOJ turns a blind eye to war criminals and Wall St crooks yet throws the book at activists like Aaron. I've registered 14 domains that are variations of the three main prosecutors in Aaron's trail (i.e. carmenortiz.org, stephenheymann.org, etc.) The names Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann are already synonymous with abuse of power. Let's cement that while drawing attention to other activists/whistleblowers who are being prosecuted for non-crimes. While we're at it, let's give prosecutors something useful to do by highlighting well documented but unprosecuted crimes (I'm looking at you John Yoo/Jamie Dimon/James Clapper).

*Transparency Toolkit (shidash, ?): Unfortunately Shidash is unavailable, but maybe someone else could do it?

*Restore the Fourth placeholder. We'll know more closer to the date about which of our projects would benefit the most from this. Options include the various encrpytion/meshnet/other coding aspects, blog posts and other content development, or drafting policy documents and researching for coalition-building.

*Indie Box: Set up our own web applications on cheap Linux devices (like the Raspberry Pi) in our own homes: http://indieboxproject.org/

*Overview Project (Ian, SF): an open-source tool to help journalists (or anyone!) find stories in large sets of documents, by automatically sorting them according to topic and providing a fast visualization and reading interface. It's a way to quickly make sense of huge leaks, FOIA responses, and document dumps using a combination of clever algorithms and human intuition. Remember, transparency is meaningless if nobody's watching. Homepage: http://overview.ap.org/ Source: https://github.com/overview

*Client-side encryption (Daniel, SF): a library for creating web apps that encrypt user data before sending it to the server. This is an attempt at keeping the convenience of cloud storage while retaining data privacy.

==Activists/Groups to reach out to==
Feel free to add to the list or contact someone you know at one of these!

*Praveen (SF) - California prison reform/hunger strike stuff (contacted)
*Willow (Cambridge?) - Hackers Without Borders (contacted)
*EFF - pgpbot, other tech projects? (contacted)
*Internet Archive - (will host reception in SF)
*Mozilla - (contacted)
*Tor - NEED CONTACT
*Freedom of the Press Foundation - (contacted)
*OpenITP - (contacted)
*Mailpile - (contacted)
*Wikimedia - (contacted)
*Maplight - Contacted
*Restore the Fourth - (contacted)
*Demand Progress
*Digital Right Northwest (Seattle - Contacted)

==Locations==
Please include the main organizer name and email.

*Nosebridge, SF - CONFIRMED, yan (yan at mit dot edu)
*Boston, MA - CONFIRMED, willow leading (Media Lab)
*Chicago, IL - CONFIRMED, brian (brianhray at gmail dot com)
*Seattle, WA - CONFIRMED, Jigsaw Renaissance, Noah leading
*Austin - IN PROGRESS, samantha mahool 
*Netz39, Germany - IN PROGRESS, katharina holstein
*NYC - CONFIRMED, 630 Flushing Ave, rmo (rmo at numm . org)
*Zagreb - CONFIRMED, david (david at numm . org)
*Hacklab Barracas, Buenos Aires [http://wiki.hackcoop.com.ar/HackatonAaronSwartz Event Site] - CONFIRMED, nicolás reynolds
*Bangalore - contacted & interested, in progress
*Berlin - CONFIRMED, samuel carlisle 
*Amsterdam - CONFIRMED, TechInc Hackersspace, vesna manojlovic (becha at xs4all . nl)
**Talk to samthetechie at the c-base for more info
*Houston, TX (combined with civic hackathon) - jeff at januaryadvisors. com
*Paris
*London
*Tokyo

==San Francisco==
In memory of hacker activist Aaron Swartz, let's get together for a weekend to work on projects for social/political reform, information freedom, preserving our rights on the Internet, and making the world we want to live in. Everyone is welcome, regardless of whether or not you code. This event is being organized by [[User:Yan]], so get in touch if you have questions.

We'll be working on several open source projects simultaneously with developers from Tor, EFF, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Mozilla, and other organizations (see projects list above). All of them need your help, no matter who you are! Come find out how you can help us fight mass surveillance and protect whistleblowers, or work on something important that you've been putting off for years, or simply hang out and learn how to use encryption.

Note that the event kicks off at the Internet Archive on Nov 8 but will be at Noisebridge for the rest of the weekend.

===Schedule===
'''Nov. 8 (at the Internet Archive)'''
*5 pm: The [http://archive.org/about/contact.php Internet Archive] opens for early hacking! Yan and possibly others will be around to help people find projects to work on.
*6:30 pm: Reception starts at the Internet Archive. Come mingle.
*7:30 pm: The event kicks off at the Internet Archive on Friday evening with talks from Cindy Cohn (legal director of the EFF), Kevin Poulsen (editor of Wired), Brewster Kahle (founder of the Internet Archive), and others TBA.
*9 pm: Let's start hacking! (Until we get kicked out of the Internet Archive around 10 pm, at which point we might move to Noisebridge?)

'''Nov. 9 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am - sleepytime: Hackathon starts up again at Noisebridge! We'll start with more project presentations and then spend the rest of the day working. Come by any time.

'''Nov. 10 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am: More hacking at Noisebridge!
*4 pm: DEMO TIME. Come demo what you've done over the weekend. Afterwards we'll head to the Sycamore for celebration.

===Who's going===
* [[User:Yan|Yan]]
* Oliver

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-10-29T06:22:11Z

Rmo: /* Locations */

The [[Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons]] generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done!

The Second Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 8. Our official page is [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org here] but this wiki is for coordinating projects.

We are also using #aaronswhack on irc.oftc.net and can be reached on the list aaronswhack@numm.org

==Motivation==
"We were part of an inchoate, ad-hoc community of collaborators who helped each other learn how to code. No, not how to write code ‒ how to write code for the purpose of changing the world." - Zooko, on memories of Aaron ([http://zooko-on-aaronsw.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-1-by-zooko-wilcox-ohearn-written.html full post here])

==Format==
Structure of the event (condensed from meeting notes):
*In advance at each location, (at least) one presenter is chosen to "pitch" what they consider a vital project. This project should be eminently hackable -- the presenter or another volunteer who knows the project well should be prepared to help interested parties get involved, at many skill levels.
*The event starts like a hybrid (un-)conference, with introductions and short presentations. The pre-announced presenter(s) do these presentations, and during the introductions people can offer or request talks, which are added as time permits on the spot. Total presentation time should be ~1.5-2hrs. Presentations are recorded and immediately posted online (or streamed), for remote participants or people at other hackathons to see.
*Then there's open time to work.
*Finally, at the end of the event, there are 1.5-2hrs of demonstrations of results. Anyone can sign up on the site with info about project status to get a demo slot. Demos are also recorded and posted online, cross-referenced with individuals and projects.

==Proposed Dates==
*Set up a event webpage - [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org Done] (Sept.)
*Recruit hacklabs (as hosts) and activists (as PMs) - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Get signal-boosting web coverage - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Run events - Nov. 8 weekend

==Projects to Work on==

* tor2web and jot2tor (virgil, SF)(oliver, BOS) : Tor2web makes it possible for internet users to view content from Tor hidden services. It's online in a (mostly) functioning form at http://tor2web.org . Jot2tor is an extension of this allowing users to use Aaron's jottit.com framework to easily create pages hosted on hidden services. Naturally, pages created via jot2tor are accessible from tor2web. Aaron and I actually worked on both of these projects until his death.

*Fork the Law ([[User:Christie|Christie]] ([[User talk:Christie|talk]]), SF) Fork the Law has spent the last few months working out what ordinary people need to know in order to effect legislative change. We're now working on condensing this down to a set of technical design requirements. We'd like to dig into turning the requirements into code, integrating existing open source applications and other services wherever possible. The repository for the development effort is https://github.com/fork-the-law/hancock.

*Archiving Aaron's writings (psawaya, SF). I think it'd be helpful to produce an archive of Aaron's writings, as the formatting on his blog isn't well-organized or good for reading on mobile devices. Some projects might include producing ePub and MOBI versions, organizing and tagging his writing, making it searchable, and perhaps even making it annotatable. It may be possible to build off of [https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought this project]. I recall not finding a Creative Commons declaration on Aaron's blog, though this project certainly seems to be in alignment with his ideals. Yan suggested talking about it with Noah Swartz.

*Mailpile (brennan, Berlin): https://github.com/pagekite/mailpile

*SecureDrop (yan/micah/garrett?/james?, SF): a platform for whistleblowers to transfer documents to newspapers directly. See https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.

*Prosecutorial Overreach/Underreach: The DOJ turns a blind eye to war criminals and Wall St crooks yet throws the book at activists like Aaron. I've registered 14 domains that are variations of the three main prosecutors in Aaron's trail (i.e. carmenortiz.org, stephenheymann.org, etc.) The names Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann are already synonymous with abuse of power. Let's cement that while drawing attention to other activists/whistleblowers who are being prosecuted for non-crimes. While we're at it, let's give prosecutors something useful to do by highlighting well documented but unprosecuted crimes (I'm looking at you John Yoo/Jamie Dimon/James Clapper).

*Transparency Toolkit (shidash, ?): Unfortunately Shidash is unavailable, but maybe someone else could do it?

*Restore the Fourth placeholder. We'll know more closer to the date about which of our projects would benefit the most from this. Options include the various encrpytion/meshnet/other coding aspects, blog posts and other content development, or drafting policy documents and researching for coalition-building.

*Indie Box: Set up our own web applications on cheap Linux devices (like the Raspberry Pi) in our own homes: http://indieboxproject.org/

*Overview Project (Ian, SF): an open-source tool to help journalists (or anyone!) find stories in large sets of documents, by automatically sorting them according to topic and providing a fast visualization and reading interface. It's a way to quickly make sense of huge leaks, FOIA responses, and document dumps using a combination of clever algorithms and human intuition. Remember, transparency is meaningless if nobody's watching. Homepage: http://overview.ap.org/ Source: https://github.com/overview

*Client-side encryption (Daniel, SF): a library for creating web apps that encrypt user data before sending it to the server. This is an attempt at keeping the convenience of cloud storage while retaining data privacy.

==Activists/Groups to reach out to==
Feel free to add to the list or contact someone you know at one of these!

*Praveen (SF) - California prison reform/hunger strike stuff (contacted)
*Willow (Cambridge?) - Hackers Without Borders (contacted)
*EFF - pgpbot, other tech projects? (contacted)
*Internet Archive - (will host reception in SF)
*Mozilla - (contacted)
*Tor - NEED CONTACT
*Freedom of the Press Foundation - (contacted)
*OpenITP - (contacted)
*Mailpile - (contacted)
*Wikimedia - (contacted)
*Maplight - Contacted
*Restore the Fourth - (contacted)
*Demand Progress
*Digital Right Northwest (Seattle - Contacted)

==Locations==
Please include the main organizer name and email.

*Nosebridge, SF - CONFIRMED, yan (yan at mit dot edu)
*Boston, MA - CONFIRMED, willow leading (Media Lab)
*Chicago, IL - CONFIRMED, brian (brianhray at gmail dot com)
*Seattle, WA - CONFIRMED, Jigsaw Renaissance, Noah leading
*Austin - IN PROGRESS, samantha mahool 
*Netz39, Germany - IN PROGRESS, katharina holstein
*NYC - CONFIRMED, 630 Flushing Ave, rmo (rmo at numm . org)
*Zagreb - CONFIRMED, david (david at numm . org)
*Hacklab Barracas, Buenos Aires [http://wiki.hackcoop.com.ar/HackatonAaronSwartz Event Site] - CONFIRMED, nicolás reynolds
*Bangalore - contacted & interested, in progress
*Berlin - CONFIRMED, samuel carlisle 
*Amsterdam - CONFIRMED, TechInc Hackersspace, vesna manojlovic (becha at xs4all . nl)
**Talk to samthetechie at the c-base for more info
*Paris
*London
*Tokyo

==San Francisco==
In memory of hacker activist Aaron Swartz, let's get together for a weekend to work on projects for social/political reform, information freedom, preserving our rights on the Internet, and making the world we want to live in. Everyone is welcome, regardless of whether or not you code. This event is being organized by [[User:Yan]], so get in touch if you have questions.

We'll be working on several open source projects simultaneously with developers from Tor, EFF, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Mozilla, and other organizations (see projects list above). All of them need your help, no matter who you are! Come find out how you can help us fight mass surveillance and protect whistleblowers, or work on something important that you've been putting off for years, or simply hang out and learn how to use encryption.

Note that the event kicks off at the Internet Archive on Nov 8 but will be at Noisebridge for the rest of the weekend.

===Schedule===
'''Nov. 8 (at the Internet Archive)'''
*5 pm: The [http://archive.org/about/contact.php Internet Archive] opens for early hacking! Yan and possibly others will be around to help people find projects to work on.
*6:30 pm: Reception starts at the Internet Archive. Come mingle.
*7:30 pm: The event kicks off at the Internet Archive on Friday evening with talks from Cindy Cohn (legal director of the EFF), Kevin Poulsen (editor of Wired), Brewster Kahle (founder of the Internet Archive), and others TBA.
*9 pm: Let's start hacking! (Until we get kicked out of the Internet Archive around 10 pm, at which point we might move to Noisebridge?)

'''Nov. 9 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am - sleepytime: Hackathon starts up again at Noisebridge! We'll start with more project presentations and then spend the rest of the day working. Come by any time.

'''Nov. 10 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am: More hacking at Noisebridge!
*4 pm: DEMO TIME. Come demo what you've done over the weekend. Afterwards we'll head to the Sycamore for celebration.

===Who's going===
* [[User:Yan|Yan]]
* Oliver

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-10-22T00:03:26Z

Rmo: /* Activists/Groups to reach out to */ Archive will participate!

The [[Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons]] generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done!

The Second Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 8. Our official page is [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org here] but this wiki is for coordinating projects.

We are also using #aaronswhack on irc.oftc.net and can be reached on the list aaronswhack@numm.org

==Motivation==
"We were part of an inchoate, ad-hoc community of collaborators who helped each other learn how to code. No, not how to write code ‒ how to write code for the purpose of changing the world." - Zooko, on memories of Aaron ([http://zooko-on-aaronsw.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-1-by-zooko-wilcox-ohearn-written.html full post here])

==Format==
Structure of the event (condensed from meeting notes):
*In advance at each location, (at least) one presenter is chosen to "pitch" what they consider a vital project. This project should be eminently hackable -- the presenter or another volunteer who knows the project well should be prepared to help interested parties get involved, at many skill levels.
*The event starts like a hybrid (un-)conference, with introductions and short presentations. The pre-announced presenter(s) do these presentations, and during the introductions people can offer or request talks, which are added as time permits on the spot. Total presentation time should be ~1.5-2hrs. Presentations are recorded and immediately posted online (or streamed), for remote participants or people at other hackathons to see.
*Then there's open time to work.
*Finally, at the end of the event, there are 1.5-2hrs of demonstrations of results. Anyone can sign up on the site with info about project status to get a demo slot. Demos are also recorded and posted online, cross-referenced with individuals and projects.

==Proposed Dates==
*Set up a event webpage - [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org Done] (Sept.)
*Recruit hacklabs (as hosts) and activists (as PMs) - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Get signal-boosting web coverage - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Run events - Nov. 8 weekend

==Projects to Work on==

* tor2web and jot2tor (virgil, SF)(oliver, BOS) : Tor2web makes it possible for internet users to view content from Tor hidden services. It's online in a (mostly) functioning form at http://tor2web.org . Jot2tor is an extension of this allowing users to use Aaron's jottit.com framework to easily create pages hosted on hidden services. Naturally, pages created via jot2tor are accessible from tor2web. Aaron and I actually worked on both of these projects until his death.

*Fork the Law ([[User:Christie|Christie]] ([[User talk:Christie|talk]]), SF) Fork the Law has spent the last few months working out what ordinary people need to know in order to effect legislative change. We're now working on condensing this down to a set of technical design requirements. We'd like to dig into turning the requirements into code, integrating existing open source applications and other services wherever possible. The repository for the development effort is https://github.com/fork-the-law/hancock.

*Archiving Aaron's writings (psawaya, SF). I think it'd be helpful to produce an archive of Aaron's writings, as the formatting on his blog isn't well-organized or good for reading on mobile devices. Some projects might include producing ePub and MOBI versions, organizing and tagging his writing, making it searchable, and perhaps even making it annotatable. It may be possible to build off of [https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought this project]. I recall not finding a Creative Commons declaration on Aaron's blog, though this project certainly seems to be in alignment with his ideals. Yan suggested talking about it with Noah Swartz.

*Mailpile (brennan, Berlin): https://github.com/pagekite/mailpile

*SecureDrop (yan/micah/garrett?/james?, SF): a platform for whistleblowers to transfer documents to newspapers directly. See https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.

*Prosecutorial Overreach/Underreach: The DOJ turns a blind eye to war criminals and Wall St crooks yet throws the book at activists like Aaron. I've registered 14 domains that are variations of the three main prosecutors in Aaron's trail (i.e. carmenortiz.org, stephenheymann.org, etc.) The names Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann are already synonymous with abuse of power. Let's cement that while drawing attention to other activists/whistleblowers who are being prosecuted for non-crimes. While we're at it, let's give prosecutors something useful to do by highlighting well documented but unprosecuted crimes (I'm looking at you John Yoo/Jamie Dimon/James Clapper).

*Transparency Toolkit (shidash, ?): Unfortunately Shidash is unavailable, but maybe someone else could do it?

*Restore the Fourth placeholder. We'll know more closer to the date about which of our projects would benefit the most from this. Options include the various encrpytion/meshnet/other coding aspects, blog posts and other content development, or drafting policy documents and researching for coalition-building.

*Indie Box: Set up our own web applications on cheap Linux devices (like the Raspberry Pi) in our own homes: http://indieboxproject.org/

==Activists/Groups to reach out to==
Feel free to add to the list or contact someone you know at one of these!

*Praveen (SF) - California prison reform/hunger strike stuff (contacted)
*Willow (Cambridge?) - Hackers Without Borders (contacted)
*EFF - pgpbot, other tech projects? (contacted)
*Internet Archive - (will host reception in SF)
*Mozilla - (contacted)
*Tor - NEED CONTACT
*Freedom of the Press Foundation - (contacted)
*OpenITP - (contacted)
*Mailpile - (contacted)
*Wikimedia - (contacted)
*Maplight - Contacted
*Restore the Fourth - (contacted)
*Demand Progress

==Locations==
Please include the main organizer name and email.

*Nosebridge, SF - CONFIRMED, yan (yan at mit dot edu)
*Boston, MA - CONFIRMED, willow leading (Media Lab)
*Chicago, IL - CONFIRMED, brian (brianhray at gmail dot com)
*Seattle, WA - CONFIRMED, Jigsaw Renaissance, Noah leading
*Austin - IN PROGRESS, samantha mahool 
*Netz39, Germany - IN PROGRESS, katharina holstein
*NYC - IN PROGRESS, location TDB, rmo (rmo at numm . org)
*Zagreb - IN PROGRESS, david (david at numm . org)
*Hacklab Barracas, Buenos Aires [http://wiki.hackcoop.com.ar/HackatonAaronSwartz Event Site] - CONFIRMED, nicolás reynolds
*Bangalore - contacted & interested, in progress
*Berlin - CONFIRMED, samuel carlisle 
**Talk to samthetechie at the c-base for more info
*Paris
*London
*Zagreb (+ other balkan)
*Tokyo

==San Francisco==
The SF event is being organized by [[User:Yan|Yan]]. It will kick off at the Internet Archive on Nov. 8 with a ceremony in honor of Aaron's birthday, then move to Noisebridge for hacking the rest of the weekend.

===Schedule===
'''Nov. 8 (at the Internet Archive)'''
*5 pm: The [http://archive.org/about/contact.php Internet Archive] opens for early hacking! Yan and possibly others will be around to help people find projects to work on.
*6:30 pm: Reception starts at the Internet Archive. Come mingle.
*7:30 pm: Speakers and presentations start at the Internet Archive. We'll open with presentations from Cindy Cohn of the EFF and others TBA. Afterward there will be short talks introducing the hackathon projects!
*9 pm: Let's start hacking! (Until we get kicked out of the Internet Archive around 10 pm, at which point we might move to Noisebridge?)

'''Nov. 9 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am - sleepytime: Hackathon starts up again at Noisebridge! We'll start with more project presentations and then spend the rest of the day working. Come by any time.

'''Nov. 10 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am: More hacking at Noisebridge!
*4 pm: DEMO TIME. Come demo what you've done over the weekend. Afterwards we'll head to the Sycamore for celebration.

===Who's going===
* [[User:Yan|Yan]]
* Oliver

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-10-20T14:38:12Z

Rmo: /* Locations */ tentative zagreb

The [[Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons]] generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done!

The Second Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 8. Our official page is [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org here] but this wiki is for coordinating projects.

We are also using #aaronswhack on irc.oftc.net and can be reached on the list aaronswhack@numm.org

==Motivation==
"We were part of an inchoate, ad-hoc community of collaborators who helped each other learn how to code. No, not how to write code ‒ how to write code for the purpose of changing the world." - Zooko, on memories of Aaron ([http://zooko-on-aaronsw.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-1-by-zooko-wilcox-ohearn-written.html full post here])

==Format==
Structure of the event (condensed from meeting notes):
*In advance at each location, (at least) one presenter is chosen to "pitch" what they consider a vital project. This project should be eminently hackable -- the presenter or another volunteer who knows the project well should be prepared to help interested parties get involved, at many skill levels.
*The event starts like a hybrid (un-)conference, with introductions and short presentations. The pre-announced presenter(s) do these presentations, and during the introductions people can offer or request talks, which are added as time permits on the spot. Total presentation time should be ~1.5-2hrs. Presentations are recorded and immediately posted online (or streamed), for remote participants or people at other hackathons to see.
*Then there's open time to work.
*Finally, at the end of the event, there are 1.5-2hrs of demonstrations of results. Anyone can sign up on the site with info about project status to get a demo slot. Demos are also recorded and posted online, cross-referenced with individuals and projects.

==Proposed Dates==
*Set up a event webpage - [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org Done] (Sept.)
*Recruit hacklabs (as hosts) and activists (as PMs) - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Get signal-boosting web coverage - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Run events - Nov. 8 weekend

==Projects to Work on==

* tor2web and jot2tor (virgil, SF)(oliver, BOS) : Tor2web makes it possible for internet users to view content from Tor hidden services. It's online in a (mostly) functioning form at http://tor2web.org . Jot2tor is an extension of this allowing users to use Aaron's jottit.com framework to easily create pages hosted on hidden services. Naturally, pages created via jot2tor are accessible from tor2web. Aaron and I actually worked on both of these projects until his death.

*Fork the Law ([[User:Christie|Christie]] ([[User talk:Christie|talk]]), SF) Fork the Law has spent the last few months working out what ordinary people need to know in order to effect legislative change. We're now working on condensing this down to a set of technical design requirements. We'd like to dig into turning the requirements into code, integrating existing open source applications and other services wherever possible. The repository for the development effort is https://github.com/fork-the-law/hancock.

*Archiving Aaron's writings (psawaya, SF). I think it'd be helpful to produce an archive of Aaron's writings, as the formatting on his blog isn't well-organized or good for reading on mobile devices. Some projects might include producing ePub and MOBI versions, organizing and tagging his writing, making it searchable, and perhaps even making it annotatable. It may be possible to build off of [https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought this project]. I recall not finding a Creative Commons declaration on Aaron's blog, though this project certainly seems to be in alignment with his ideals. Yan suggested talking about it with Noah Swartz.

*Mailpile (brennan, Berlin): https://github.com/pagekite/mailpile

*SecureDrop (yan/micah/garrett?/james?, SF): a platform for whistleblowers to transfer documents to newspapers directly. See https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.

*Prosecutorial Overreach/Underreach: The DOJ turns a blind eye to war criminals and Wall St crooks yet throws the book at activists like Aaron. I've registered 14 domains that are variations of the three main prosecutors in Aaron's trail (i.e. carmenortiz.org, stephenheymann.org, etc.) The names Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann are already synonymous with abuse of power. Let's cement that while drawing attention to other activists/whistleblowers who are being prosecuted for non-crimes. While we're at it, let's give prosecutors something useful to do by highlighting well documented but unprosecuted crimes (I'm looking at you John Yoo/Jamie Dimon/James Clapper).

*Transparency Toolkit (shidash, ?): Unfortunately Shidash is unavailable, but maybe someone else could do it?

*Restore the Fourth placeholder. We'll know more closer to the date about which of our projects would benefit the most from this. Options include the various encrpytion/meshnet/other coding aspects, blog posts and other content development, or drafting policy documents and researching for coalition-building.

==Activists/Groups to reach out to==
Feel free to add to the list or contact someone you know at one of these!

*Praveen (SF) - California prison reform/hunger strike stuff (contacted)
*Willow (Cambridge?) - Hackers Without Borders (contacted)
*EFF - pgpbot, other tech projects? (contacted)
*Internet Archive - NEED CONTACT
*Mozilla - (contacted)
*Tor - NEED CONTACT
*Freedom of the Press Foundation - (contacted)
*OpenITP - (contacted)
*Mailpile - (contacted)
*Wikimedia - (contacted)
*Maplight - Contacted
*Restore the Fourth - (contacted)

==Locations==
Please include the main organizer name and email.

*Nosebridge, SF - CONFIRMED, yan (yan at mit dot edu)
*Boston, MA - CONFIRMED, willow leading (Media Lab)
*Chicago, IL - CONFIRMED, brian (brianhray at gmail dot com)
*Seattle, WA - CONFIRMED, Jigsaw Renaissance, Noah leading
*Austin - IN PROGRESS, samantha mahool 
*Netz39, Germany - IN PROGRESS, katharina holstein
*NYC - IN PROGRESS, location TDB, rmo (rmo at numm . org)
*Zagreb - IN PROGRESS, david (david at numm . org)
*Hacklab Barracas, Buenos Aires [http://wiki.hackcoop.com.ar/HackatonAaronSwartz Event Site] - CONFIRMED, nicolás reynolds
*Bangalore - contacted & interested, in progress
*Berlin - CONFIRMED, samuel carlisle 
**Talk to samthetechie at the c-base for more info
*Paris
*London
*Zagreb (+ other balkan)
*Tokyo

==San Francisco==
The SF event is being organized by [[User:Yan|Yan]]. It will kick off at the Internet Archive on Nov. 8 with a ceremony in honor of Aaron's birthday, then move to Noisebridge for hacking the rest of the weekend.

===Schedule===
'''Nov. 8 (at the Internet Archive)'''
*5 pm: The [http://archive.org/about/contact.php Internet Archive] opens for early hacking! Yan and possibly others will be around to help people find projects to work on.
*6:30 pm: Reception starts at the Internet Archive. Come mingle.
*7:30 pm: Speakers and presentations start at the Internet Archive. We'll open with presentations from Cindy Cohn of the EFF and others TBA. Afterward there will be short talks introducing the hackathon projects!
*9 pm: Let's start hacking! (Until we get kicked out of the Internet Archive around 10 pm, at which point we might move to Noisebridge?)

'''Nov. 9 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am - sleepytime: Hackathon starts up again at Noisebridge! We'll start with more project presentations and then spend the rest of the day working. Come by any time.

'''Nov. 10 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am: More hacking at Noisebridge!
*4 pm: DEMO TIME. Come demo what you've done over the weekend. Afterwards we'll head to the Sycamore for celebration.

===Who's going===
* [[User:Yan|Yan]]
* Oliver

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-10-20T14:35:51Z

Rmo: /* Locations */ tentative nyc

The [[Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons]] generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done!

The Second Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 8. Our official page is [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org here] but this wiki is for coordinating projects.

We are also using #aaronswhack on irc.oftc.net and can be reached on the list aaronswhack@numm.org

==Motivation==
"We were part of an inchoate, ad-hoc community of collaborators who helped each other learn how to code. No, not how to write code ‒ how to write code for the purpose of changing the world." - Zooko, on memories of Aaron ([http://zooko-on-aaronsw.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-1-by-zooko-wilcox-ohearn-written.html full post here])

==Format==
Structure of the event (condensed from meeting notes):
*In advance at each location, (at least) one presenter is chosen to "pitch" what they consider a vital project. This project should be eminently hackable -- the presenter or another volunteer who knows the project well should be prepared to help interested parties get involved, at many skill levels.
*The event starts like a hybrid (un-)conference, with introductions and short presentations. The pre-announced presenter(s) do these presentations, and during the introductions people can offer or request talks, which are added as time permits on the spot. Total presentation time should be ~1.5-2hrs. Presentations are recorded and immediately posted online (or streamed), for remote participants or people at other hackathons to see.
*Then there's open time to work.
*Finally, at the end of the event, there are 1.5-2hrs of demonstrations of results. Anyone can sign up on the site with info about project status to get a demo slot. Demos are also recorded and posted online, cross-referenced with individuals and projects.

==Proposed Dates==
*Set up a event webpage - [http://aaronswartzhackathon.org Done] (Sept.)
*Recruit hacklabs (as hosts) and activists (as PMs) - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Get signal-boosting web coverage - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
*Run events - Nov. 8 weekend

==Projects to Work on==

* tor2web and jot2tor (virgil, SF)(oliver, BOS) : Tor2web makes it possible for internet users to view content from Tor hidden services. It's online in a (mostly) functioning form at http://tor2web.org . Jot2tor is an extension of this allowing users to use Aaron's jottit.com framework to easily create pages hosted on hidden services. Naturally, pages created via jot2tor are accessible from tor2web. Aaron and I actually worked on both of these projects until his death.

*Fork the Law ([[User:Christie|Christie]] ([[User talk:Christie|talk]]), SF) Fork the Law has spent the last few months working out what ordinary people need to know in order to effect legislative change. We're now working on condensing this down to a set of technical design requirements. We'd like to dig into turning the requirements into code, integrating existing open source applications and other services wherever possible. The repository for the development effort is https://github.com/fork-the-law/hancock.

*Archiving Aaron's writings (psawaya, SF). I think it'd be helpful to produce an archive of Aaron's writings, as the formatting on his blog isn't well-organized or good for reading on mobile devices. Some projects might include producing ePub and MOBI versions, organizing and tagging his writing, making it searchable, and perhaps even making it annotatable. It may be possible to build off of [https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought this project]. I recall not finding a Creative Commons declaration on Aaron's blog, though this project certainly seems to be in alignment with his ideals. Yan suggested talking about it with Noah Swartz.

*Mailpile (brennan, Berlin): https://github.com/pagekite/mailpile

*SecureDrop (yan/micah/garrett?/james?, SF): a platform for whistleblowers to transfer documents to newspapers directly. See https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.

*Prosecutorial Overreach/Underreach: The DOJ turns a blind eye to war criminals and Wall St crooks yet throws the book at activists like Aaron. I've registered 14 domains that are variations of the three main prosecutors in Aaron's trail (i.e. carmenortiz.org, stephenheymann.org, etc.) The names Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann are already synonymous with abuse of power. Let's cement that while drawing attention to other activists/whistleblowers who are being prosecuted for non-crimes. While we're at it, let's give prosecutors something useful to do by highlighting well documented but unprosecuted crimes (I'm looking at you John Yoo/Jamie Dimon/James Clapper).

*Transparency Toolkit (shidash, ?): Unfortunately Shidash is unavailable, but maybe someone else could do it?

*Restore the Fourth placeholder. We'll know more closer to the date about which of our projects would benefit the most from this. Options include the various encrpytion/meshnet/other coding aspects, blog posts and other content development, or drafting policy documents and researching for coalition-building.

==Activists/Groups to reach out to==
Feel free to add to the list or contact someone you know at one of these!

*Praveen (SF) - California prison reform/hunger strike stuff (contacted)
*Willow (Cambridge?) - Hackers Without Borders (contacted)
*EFF - pgpbot, other tech projects? (contacted)
*Internet Archive - NEED CONTACT
*Mozilla - (contacted)
*Tor - NEED CONTACT
*Freedom of the Press Foundation - (contacted)
*OpenITP - (contacted)
*Mailpile - (contacted)
*Wikimedia - (contacted)
*Maplight - Contacted
*Restore the Fourth - (contacted)

==Locations==
Please include the main organizer name and email.

*Nosebridge, SF - CONFIRMED, yan (yan at mit dot edu)
*Boston, MA - CONFIRMED, willow leading (Media Lab)
*Chicago, IL - CONFIRMED, brian (brianhray at gmail dot com)
*Seattle, WA - CONFIRMED, Jigsaw Renaissance, Noah leading
*Austin - IN PROGRESS, samantha mahool 
*Netz39, Germany - IN PROGRESS, katharina holstein
*NYC - IN PROGRESS, location TDB, rmo (rmo at numm . org)
*Hacklab Barracas, Buenos Aires [http://wiki.hackcoop.com.ar/HackatonAaronSwartz Event Site] - CONFIRMED, nicolás reynolds
*Bangalore - contacted & interested, in progress
*Berlin - CONFIRMED, samuel carlisle 
**Talk to samthetechie at the c-base for more info
*Paris
*London
*Zagreb (+ other balkan)
*Tokyo

==San Francisco==
The SF event is being organized by [[User:Yan|Yan]]. It will kick off at the Internet Archive on Nov. 8 with a ceremony in honor of Aaron's birthday, then move to Noisebridge for hacking the rest of the weekend.

===Schedule===
'''Nov. 8 (at the Internet Archive)'''
*5 pm: The [http://archive.org/about/contact.php Internet Archive] opens for early hacking! Yan and possibly others will be around to help people find projects to work on.
*6:30 pm: Reception starts at the Internet Archive. Come mingle.
*7:30 pm: Speakers and presentations start at the Internet Archive. We'll open with presentations from Cindy Cohn of the EFF and others TBA. Afterward there will be short talks introducing the hackathon projects!
*9 pm: Let's start hacking! (Until we get kicked out of the Internet Archive around 10 pm, at which point we might move to Noisebridge?)

'''Nov. 9 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am - sleepytime: Hackathon starts up again at Noisebridge! We'll start with more project presentations and then spend the rest of the day working. Come by any time.

'''Nov. 10 (at Noisebridge)'''
*11 am: More hacking at Noisebridge!
*4 pm: DEMO TIME. Come demo what you've done over the weekend. Afterwards we'll head to the Sycamore for celebration.

===Who's going===
* [[User:Yan|Yan]]
* Oliver

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-10-10T15:49:44Z

Rmo: /* Locations */ update bangalore

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-10-09T19:22:12Z

Rmo: /* Locations */ add Barracas link

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-09-30T05:39:08Z

Rmo: /* Locations */ add chicago

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-06-11T06:33:01Z

Rmo: link

The [[Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons]] generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done.

This is a page for coordinating this continuation, which is tentatively slated to begin Sept/Oct.

Given recent events, there will be much to discuss at the next [[Technoactivism Mondays|Technoactivism Monday]], but that might be the right time to get feedback from Noisebridge about interest and logistics.

Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series

2013-06-11T06:32:16Z

Rmo: initialize discussion for continuing @aaronsw hackathons

The Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done.

This is a page for coordinating this continuation, which is tentatively slated to begin Sept/Oct.

Given recent events, there will be much to discuss at the next [[Technoactivism Mondays|Technoactivism Monday]], but that might be the right time to get feedback from Noisebridge about interest and logistics.