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FOIA letter

2013-02-22T13:41:25Z

Zestyping: /* Request */

=== Request ===

[[user:zestyping | Ping]] sent the following FOIA request to the FBI to ask for its records on Noisebridge.

<blockquote><pre>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 23:52:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Ka-Ping Yee <fbi@zesty.ca>
To: foiparequest@ic.fbi.gov
Subject: FOIA Request for records pertaining to Noisebridge

BY E-MAIL: foiparequest@ic.fbi.gov

Ka-Ping Yee
******** Street
Berkeley, CA *****

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Attn: FOI/PA Request
Record/Information Dissemination Section
170 Marcel Drive
Winchester, VA 22602-4843

RE: Freedom of Information Act Request

This letter constitutes a request under the Freedom of Information Act
(“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. Section 552 and is submitted to the Department of
Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation on behalf of Noisebridge, a
501(c)(3) organization with EIN 263507741, located at 2169 Mission
Street, San Francisco, CA 94110.

I seek all agency records in the Central Record System pertaining to
Noisebridge.

Please send the records by e-mail to fbi@zesty.ca in electronic format.
I am willing to pay up to $100 in processing fees; if the FBI believes
that fees will exceed $100, please contact me before proceeding.

Thank you for your consideration of this request. If you have any
questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at (***)
***-****. As the FOIA and applicable Department regulations provide,
I will anticipate your determination within twenty (20) working days.

Best regards,

Ka-Ping Yee
</pre></blockquote>

=== Reply ===

The FBI sent the following letter in reply.

[[File:Noisebridge-foia-reply-1.jpg|800px]]

[[File:Noisebridge-foia-reply-2.jpg|800px]]

FOIA letter

2013-02-22T13:23:26Z

Zestyping: Add scans of the FBI's reply.

=== Request ===

[[user:zestyping | Ping]] sent the following FOIA request to the FBI to ask for its records on Noisebridge.

<blockquote>
BY E-MAIL: foiparequest@ic.fbi.gov 
 
Federal Bureau of Investigation 
Attn: FOI/PA Request 
Record/Information Dissemination Section 
170 Marcel Drive 
Winchester, VA 22602-4843 
 
RE: Freedom of Information Act Request 
 
This letter constitutes a request under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. Section 552 and is submitted to the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Federal Bureau of Investigation on behalf of Noisebridge, a 501(c)(3) organization located at 2169 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. 
 
I seek all agency records in the Central Record System pertaining to Noisebridge. 
 
Please send the records in electronic format to the e-mail address: fbi@zesty.ca. I am willing to pay up to $100 in fees; if the FBI believes this request will incur greater fees, please contact me before charging a greater fee. 
 
Thank you for your consideration of this request. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at 510 612-1824. As the FOIA and applicable Department regulations provide, we will anticipate your determination within twenty (20) working days. 
 
Best regards, 
 
 
 
Ka-Ping Yee
</blockquote>

=== Reply ===

The FBI sent the following letter in reply.

[[File:Noisebridge-foia-reply-1.jpg|800px]]

[[File:Noisebridge-foia-reply-2.jpg|800px]]

File:Noisebridge-foia-reply-2.jpg

2013-02-22T07:55:34Z

Zestyping: FBI's reply to the FOIA request on Noisebridge, page 2 of 2

FBI's reply to the FOIA request on Noisebridge, page 2 of 2

File:Noisebridge-foia-reply-1.jpg

2013-02-22T07:55:17Z

Zestyping: FBI's reply to the FOIA request on Noisebridge, page 1 of 2

FBI's reply to the FOIA request on Noisebridge, page 1 of 2

Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon

2013-01-28T20:18:31Z

Zestyping: /* Schedule */

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 ==

Post and gather volunteers for project ideas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=1 on this spreadsheet]. Most of them need someone to volunteer to be the point of contact.

Major projects hacked on on Friday:
*Open Journal (mek)
*Cleaning up http://www.data.gov (Yan, Robert, Eric, Connie, Ian, Evan, David)

In addition, lots of suggested ideas were added to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=3.

Things that people did on Saturday:
*Continue data.gov project
*Look into FOIA-type requests to liberate academic journals/datasets
*Scrape websites and stuff
*Learn LaTeX
*Discuss academic publishing reform
*Work on porting Recap to Chrome
*A bunch of talks (see below)
*BACE timebank
*Open Library
*Chromatest and Eric played some sick DJ sets!

Things that people did on Sunday:
* Studied the possibility of open access via California's public-records law: http://piratepad.net/Q7zUeEbi0E
* Cents Us Dollars Them. (Exploring the distribution of wealth in the United States with data from the US Census API for the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon : http://cents-us-dollars-them.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/cgcardona/cents_us)

== Schedule ==

Talks are relatively informal, supposedly fun, and probably won't go for an hour each.

Scheduled talks/demos (tentative):

'''Friday'''
*7 pm: Hackathon starts, Yan probably says some words and asks for money.
*8 pm: '''Keynote on Aaron's life and work''' by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_O'Brien Danny O'Brien]

'''Saturday'''
*4 pm: '''Step 1: FOIA, Step 2: ??, Step 3: Profit''', [[user:zestyping | Ping]]. How to write Freedom of Information Act request letters to do good things for the world.
** Slides by Nate Cardozo, EFF: [[Media:EFF_FOIA_Club.pdf]]
** Here's an example of a [[FOIA letter]], asking the FBI for their records on Noisebridge.
*5 pm: '''Hacktivism: On social justice movements''', [http://www.linkedin.com/in/djabbour Daniel Jabbour]. A brief history of social justice movements, and my own experience with policy reform and hacktivism.
*6 pm: '''Principles of Low Power Design''', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.
*7 pm: '''Improving the Scientific Process through Software''', [http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellows/fellow_profile.aspx?d=1205 Jacob Steinhardt]. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't.
*8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk

'''Sunday'''
*4 pm: '''Data hacking: Machine learning + NLP''', [https://twitter.com/turian Joseph Turian]. I will answer questions about machine learning, NLP, scraping, data hacking etc.
*5 pm: '''Scrape ALL the data!''', how to scrape info from web pages with just a little Python, [[user:zestyping | Ping]]
** Get the scrape module here: http://zesty.ca/python/scrape.py
** Tutorial and documentation here: http://zesty.ca/scrape/
** Example of a scrape script that tells you how many users are reading a particular subreddit: http://zesty.ca/python/reddit_users.py
** Run this script periodically for a week to get a .tsv file, load it into Google Spreadsheets, make a chart out of it, and you get this: [[Media:Reddit-users.png]]. Now you know exactly when to post your cat photos to maximize the eyeballs on it!
*6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.

'''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events'''
*DJ set by [http://www.chromatest.net/ Chromatest J. Pantsmaker]
*DIY Book Scanner workshop
*Field trip to look for hidden cameras in public places around the Mission
*[http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm Ilsa Bartlett] is a "crisis counselor for highly intelligent people (geeks) who need someone to talk to and creates a container of quiet for people to fill with their issues." She will be around to provide counseling during the hackathon.
*[http://ipadportraits.blogspot.com/ David Newman], ipad portrait artist, showed up and started painting portraits of people hacking on Saturday.

If you'd like to give a talk/workshop, add it to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=2.

== Who's going? ==

(There's also a [https://www.facebook.com/events/119075571602113/ Facebook Event], if you are so inclined. Sadly, a Facebook login is required to access that page.)

[[user:yan | yan]]

[[user:Turkshead | shannon]]

[[user:Mct| mct]]

[[user:Davidme | davidme]]

[[user:judytuna | judytuna]]

[[user:Lizzard | Liz]]

[[user:zestyping | Ping]]

[[user:gardner | gardner!!]]

[[user:unixjazz | felipe]]

[[user:Bernie | bernie]]

[[User:Christie|Christie]]

== Notes on Demos ==

https://pad.riseup.net/p/guKU1mPGOlbV

Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon

2013-01-28T20:15:53Z

Zestyping: /* Schedule */

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 ==

Post and gather volunteers for project ideas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=1 on this spreadsheet]. Most of them need someone to volunteer to be the point of contact.

Major projects hacked on on Friday:
*Open Journal (mek)
*Cleaning up http://www.data.gov (Yan, Robert, Eric, Connie, Ian, Evan, David)

In addition, lots of suggested ideas were added to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=3.

Things that people did on Saturday:
*Continue data.gov project
*Look into FOIA-type requests to liberate academic journals/datasets
*Scrape websites and stuff
*Learn LaTeX
*Discuss academic publishing reform
*Work on porting Recap to Chrome
*A bunch of talks (see below)
*BACE timebank
*Open Library
*Chromatest and Eric played some sick DJ sets!

Things that people did on Sunday:
* Studied the possibility of open access via California's public-records law: http://piratepad.net/Q7zUeEbi0E
* Cents Us Dollars Them. (Exploring the distribution of wealth in the United States with data from the US Census API for the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon : http://cents-us-dollars-them.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/cgcardona/cents_us)

== Schedule ==

Talks are relatively informal, supposedly fun, and probably won't go for an hour each.

Scheduled talks/demos (tentative):

'''Friday'''
*7 pm: Hackathon starts, Yan probably says some words and asks for money.
*8 pm: Keynote talk on Aaron's life and work by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_O'Brien Danny O'Brien]

'''Saturday'''
*4 pm: ''Step 1: FOIA, Step 2: ??, Step 3: Profit'', [[user:zestyping | Ping]]. How to write Freedom of Information Act request letters to do good things for the world.
** Slides by Nate Cardozo, EFF: [[Media:EFF_FOIA_Club.pdf]]
** Here's an example of a [[FOIA letter]], asking the FBI for their records on Noisebridge.
*5 pm: ''Hacktivism: On social justice movements'', [http://www.linkedin.com/in/djabbour Daniel Jabbour]. A brief history of social justice movements, and my own experience with policy reform and hacktivism.
*6 pm: ''Principles of Low Power Design'', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.
*7 pm: ''Improving the Scientific Process through Software'', [http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellows/fellow_profile.aspx?d=1205 Jacob Steinhardt]. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't.
*8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk

'''Sunday'''
*4 pm: ''Data hacking: Machine learning + NLP'', [https://twitter.com/turian Joseph Turian]. I will answer questions about machine learning, NLP, scraping, data hacking etc.
*5 pm: ''Scrape ALL the data!'', how to scrape info from web pages with just a little Python, [[user:zestyping | Ping]]
** Get the scrape module here: http://zesty.ca/python/scrape.py
** Tutorial and documentation here: http://zesty.ca/scrape/
** Example of a scrape script that tells you how many users are reading a particular subreddit: http://zesty.ca/python/reddit_users.py
** Run this script periodically for a week to get a .tsv file, load it into Google Spreadsheets, make a chart out of it, and you get this: [[Media:Reddit-users.png]]. Now you know exactly when to post your cat photos to maximize the eyeballs on it!
*6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.

'''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events'''
*DJ set by [http://www.chromatest.net/ Chromatest J. Pantsmaker]
*DIY Book Scanner workshop
*Field trip to look for hidden cameras in public places around the Mission
*[http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm Ilsa Bartlett] is a "crisis counselor for highly intelligent people (geeks) who need someone to talk to and creates a container of quiet for people to fill with their issues." She will be around to provide counseling during the hackathon.
*[http://ipadportraits.blogspot.com/ David Newman], ipad portrait artist, showed up and started painting portraits of people hacking on Saturday.

If you'd like to give a talk/workshop, add it to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=2.

== Who's going? ==

(There's also a [https://www.facebook.com/events/119075571602113/ Facebook Event], if you are so inclined. Sadly, a Facebook login is required to access that page.)

[[user:yan | yan]]

[[user:Turkshead | shannon]]

[[user:Mct| mct]]

[[user:Davidme | davidme]]

[[user:judytuna | judytuna]]

[[user:Lizzard | Liz]]

[[user:zestyping | Ping]]

[[user:gardner | gardner!!]]

[[user:unixjazz | felipe]]

[[user:Bernie | bernie]]

[[User:Christie|Christie]]

== Notes on Demos ==

https://pad.riseup.net/p/guKU1mPGOlbV

File:EFF FOIA Club.pdf

2013-01-28T20:15:08Z

Zestyping: Slides for Nate Cardozo's talk on FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests.

Slides for Nate Cardozo's talk on FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests.

FOIA letter

2013-01-28T20:11:33Z

Zestyping: Created page with "The following is the FOIA letter that Ping is proposing to send to the FBI to ask for its records on Noisebridge. <blockquote> BY E-MAIL: foiparequest@ic..."

The following is the FOIA letter that [[user:zestyping | Ping]] is proposing to send to the FBI to ask for its records on Noisebridge.

<blockquote>
BY E-MAIL: foiparequest@ic.fbi.gov 
 
Federal Bureau of Investigation 
Attn: FOI/PA Request 
Record/Information Dissemination Section 
170 Marcel Drive 
Winchester, VA 22602-4843 
 
RE: Freedom of Information Act Request 
 
This letter constitutes a request under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. Section 552 and is submitted to the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Federal Bureau of Investigation on behalf of Noisebridge, a 501(c)(3) organization located at 2169 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. 
 
I seek all agency records in the Central Record System pertaining to Noisebridge. 
 
Please send the records in electronic format to the e-mail address: fbi@zesty.ca. I am willing to pay up to $100 in fees; if the FBI believes this request will incur greater fees, please contact me before charging a greater fee. 
 
Thank you for your consideration of this request. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at 510 612-1824. As the FOIA and applicable Department regulations provide, we will anticipate your determination within twenty (20) working days. 
 
Best regards, 
 
 
 
Ka-Ping Yee

Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon

2013-01-28T20:09:26Z

Zestyping: /* Schedule */

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 ==

Post and gather volunteers for project ideas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=1 on this spreadsheet]. Most of them need someone to volunteer to be the point of contact.

Major projects hacked on on Friday:
*Open Journal (mek)
*Cleaning up http://www.data.gov (Yan, Robert, Eric, Connie, Ian, Evan, David)

In addition, lots of suggested ideas were added to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=3.

Things that people did on Saturday:
*Continue data.gov project
*Look into FOIA-type requests to liberate academic journals/datasets
*Scrape websites and stuff
*Learn LaTeX
*Discuss academic publishing reform
*Work on porting Recap to Chrome
*A bunch of talks (see below)
*BACE timebank
*Open Library
*Chromatest and Eric played some sick DJ sets!

Things that people did on Sunday:
* Studied the possibility of open access via California's public-records law: http://piratepad.net/Q7zUeEbi0E
* Cents Us Dollars Them. (Exploring the distribution of wealth in the United States with data from the US Census API for the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon : http://cents-us-dollars-them.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/cgcardona/cents_us)

== Schedule ==

Talks are relatively informal, supposedly fun, and probably won't go for an hour each.

Scheduled talks/demos (tentative):

'''Friday'''
*7 pm: Hackathon starts, Yan probably says some words and asks for money.
*8 pm: Keynote talk on Aaron's life and work by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_O'Brien Danny O'Brien]

'''Saturday'''
*4 pm: ''Step 1: FOIA, Step 2: ??, Step 3: Profit'', [[user:zestyping | Ping]]. How to write Freedom of Information Act request letters to do good things for the world.
** Here's an example of a [[FOIA letter]], asking the FBI for their records on Noisebridge.
*5 pm: ''Hacktivism: On social justice movements'', [http://www.linkedin.com/in/djabbour Daniel Jabbour]. A brief history of social justice movements, and my own experience with policy reform and hacktivism.
*6 pm: ''Principles of Low Power Design'', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.
*7 pm: ''Improving the Scientific Process through Software'', [http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellows/fellow_profile.aspx?d=1205 Jacob Steinhardt]. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't.
*8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk

'''Sunday'''
*4 pm: ''Data hacking: Machine learning + NLP'', [https://twitter.com/turian Joseph Turian]. I will answer questions about machine learning, NLP, scraping, data hacking etc.
*5 pm: ''Scrape ALL the data!'', how to scrape info from web pages with just a little Python, [[user:zestyping | Ping]]
** Get the scrape module here: http://zesty.ca/python/scrape.py
** Tutorial and documentation here: http://zesty.ca/scrape/
** Example of a scrape script that tells you how many users are reading a particular subreddit: http://zesty.ca/python/reddit_users.py
** Run this script periodically for a week to get a .tsv file, load it into Google Spreadsheets, make a chart out of it, and you get this: [[Media:Reddit-users.png]]. Now you know exactly when to post your cat photos to maximize the eyeballs on it!
*6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.

'''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events'''
*DJ set by [http://www.chromatest.net/ Chromatest J. Pantsmaker]
*DIY Book Scanner workshop
*Field trip to look for hidden cameras in public places around the Mission
*[http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm Ilsa Bartlett] is a "crisis counselor for highly intelligent people (geeks) who need someone to talk to and creates a container of quiet for people to fill with their issues." She will be around to provide counseling during the hackathon.
*[http://ipadportraits.blogspot.com/ David Newman], ipad portrait artist, showed up and started painting portraits of people hacking on Saturday.

If you'd like to give a talk/workshop, add it to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=2.

== Who's going? ==

(There's also a [https://www.facebook.com/events/119075571602113/ Facebook Event], if you are so inclined. Sadly, a Facebook login is required to access that page.)

[[user:yan | yan]]

[[user:Turkshead | shannon]]

[[user:Mct| mct]]

[[user:Davidme | davidme]]

[[user:judytuna | judytuna]]

[[user:Lizzard | Liz]]

[[user:zestyping | Ping]]

[[user:gardner | gardner!!]]

[[user:unixjazz | felipe]]

[[user:Bernie | bernie]]

[[User:Christie|Christie]]

== Notes on Demos ==

https://pad.riseup.net/p/guKU1mPGOlbV

Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon

2013-01-28T03:34:03Z

Zestyping: /* Schedule */

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 ==

Post and gather volunteers for project ideas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=1 on this spreadsheet]. Most of them need someone to volunteer to be the point of contact.

Major projects hacked on on Friday:
*Open Journal (mek)
*Cleaning up http://www.data.gov (Yan, Robert, Eric, Connie, Ian, Evan, David)

In addition, lots of suggested ideas were added to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=3.

Things that people did on Saturday:
*Continue data.gov project
*Look into FOIA-type requests to liberate academic journals/datasets
*Scrape websites and stuff
*Learn LaTeX
*Discuss academic publishing reform
*Work on porting Recap to Chrome
*A bunch of talks (see below)
*BACE timebank
*Open Library
*Chromatest and Eric played some sick DJ sets!

Things that people did on Sunday:
* Studied the possibility of open access via California's public-records law: http://piratepad.net/Q7zUeEbi0E
* Cents Us Dollars Them. (Exploring the distribution of wealth in the United States with data from the US Census API for the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon : http://cents-us-dollars-them.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/cgcardona/cents_us)

== Schedule ==

Talks are relatively informal, supposedly fun, and probably won't go for an hour each.

Scheduled talks/demos (tentative):

'''Friday'''
*7 pm: Hackathon starts, Yan probably says some words and asks for money.
*8 pm: Keynote talk on Aaron's life and work by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_O'Brien Danny O'Brien]

'''Saturday'''
*4 pm: ''Step 1: FOIA, Step 2: ??, Step 3: Profit'', [[user:zestyping | Ping]]. How to write Freedom of Information Act request letters to do good things for the world.
*5 pm: ''Hacktivism: On social justice movements'', [http://www.linkedin.com/in/djabbour Daniel Jabbour]. A brief history of social justice movements, and my own experience with policy reform and hacktivism.
*6 pm: ''Principles of Low Power Design'', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.
*7 pm: ''Improving the Scientific Process through Software'', [http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellows/fellow_profile.aspx?d=1205 Jacob Steinhardt]. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't.
*8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk

'''Sunday'''
*4 pm: ''Data hacking: Machine learning + NLP'', [https://twitter.com/turian Joseph Turian]. I will answer questions about machine learning, NLP, scraping, data hacking etc.
*5 pm: ''Scrape ALL the data!'', how to scrape info from web pages with just a little Python, [[user:zestyping | Ping]]
** Get the scrape module here: http://zesty.ca/python/scrape.py
** Tutorial and documentation here: http://zesty.ca/scrape/
** Example of a scrape script that tells you how many users are reading a particular subreddit: http://zesty.ca/python/reddit_users.py
** Run this script periodically for a week to get a .tsv file, load it into Google Spreadsheets, make a chart out of it, and you get this: [[Media:Reddit-users.png]]. Now you know exactly when to post your cat photos to maximize the eyeballs on it!
*6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.

'''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events'''
*DJ set by [http://www.chromatest.net/ Chromatest J. Pantsmaker]
*DIY Book Scanner workshop
*Field trip to look for hidden cameras in public places around the Mission
*[http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm Ilsa Bartlett] is a "crisis counselor for highly intelligent people (geeks) who need someone to talk to and creates a container of quiet for people to fill with their issues." She will be around to provide counseling during the hackathon.
*[http://ipadportraits.blogspot.com/ David Newman], ipad portrait artist, showed up and started painting portraits of people hacking on Saturday.

If you'd like to give a talk/workshop, add it to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=2.

== Who's going? ==

(There's also a [https://www.facebook.com/events/119075571602113/ Facebook Event], if you are so inclined. Sadly, a Facebook login is required to access that page.)

[[user:yan | yan]]

[[user:Turkshead | shannon]]

[[user:Mct| mct]]

[[user:Davidme | davidme]]

[[user:judytuna | judytuna]]

[[user:Lizzard | Liz]]

[[user:zestyping | Ping]]

[[user:gardner | gardner!!]]

[[user:unixjazz | felipe]]

[[user:Bernie | bernie]]

[[User:Christie|Christie]]

== Notes on Demos ==

https://pad.riseup.net/p/guKU1mPGOlbV

Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon

2013-01-28T03:33:10Z

Zestyping: /* Schedule */

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 ==

Post and gather volunteers for project ideas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=1 on this spreadsheet]. Most of them need someone to volunteer to be the point of contact.

Major projects hacked on on Friday:
*Open Journal (mek)
*Cleaning up http://www.data.gov (Yan, Robert, Eric, Connie, Ian, Evan, David)

In addition, lots of suggested ideas were added to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=3.

Things that people did on Saturday:
*Continue data.gov project
*Look into FOIA-type requests to liberate academic journals/datasets
*Scrape websites and stuff
*Learn LaTeX
*Discuss academic publishing reform
*Work on porting Recap to Chrome
*A bunch of talks (see below)
*BACE timebank
*Open Library
*Chromatest and Eric played some sick DJ sets!

Things that people did on Sunday:
* Studied the possibility of open access via California's public-records law: http://piratepad.net/Q7zUeEbi0E
* Cents Us Dollars Them. (Exploring the distribution of wealth in the United States with data from the US Census API for the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon : http://cents-us-dollars-them.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/cgcardona/cents_us)

== Schedule ==

Talks are relatively informal, supposedly fun, and probably won't go for an hour each.

Scheduled talks/demos (tentative):

'''Friday'''
*7 pm: Hackathon starts, Yan probably says some words and asks for money.
*8 pm: Keynote talk on Aaron's life and work by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_O'Brien Danny O'Brien]

'''Saturday'''
*4 pm: ''Step 1: FOIA, Step 2: ??, Step 3: Profit'', [[user:zestyping | Ping]]. How to write Freedom of Information Act request letters to do good things for the world.
*5 pm: ''Hacktivism: On social justice movements'', [http://www.linkedin.com/in/djabbour Daniel Jabbour]. A brief history of social justice movements, and my own experience with policy reform and hacktivism.
*6 pm: ''Principles of Low Power Design'', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.
*7 pm: ''Improving the Scientific Process through Software'', [http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellows/fellow_profile.aspx?d=1205 Jacob Steinhardt]. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't.
*8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk

'''Sunday'''
*4 pm: ''Data hacking: Machine learning + NLP'', [https://twitter.com/turian Joseph Turian]. I will answer questions about machine learning, NLP, scraping, data hacking etc.
*5 pm: ''Scrape ALL the data!'', how to scrape info from web pages with just a little Python, [[user:zestyping | Ping]]
** Get the scrape module here: http://zesty.ca/python/scrape.py
** Tutorial and documentation here: http://zesty.ca/scrape/
** Example of a scrape script that tells you how many users are reading a particular subreddit: http://zesty.ca/python/reddit_users.py
** Run this script periodically for a week to get a .tsv file, load it into Google Spreadsheets, make a chart out of it, and you get this: [[Media:Reddit-users.png]]
*6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.

'''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events'''
*DJ set by [http://www.chromatest.net/ Chromatest J. Pantsmaker]
*DIY Book Scanner workshop
*Field trip to look for hidden cameras in public places around the Mission
*[http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm Ilsa Bartlett] is a "crisis counselor for highly intelligent people (geeks) who need someone to talk to and creates a container of quiet for people to fill with their issues." She will be around to provide counseling during the hackathon.
*[http://ipadportraits.blogspot.com/ David Newman], ipad portrait artist, showed up and started painting portraits of people hacking on Saturday.

If you'd like to give a talk/workshop, add it to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=2.

== Who's going? ==

(There's also a [https://www.facebook.com/events/119075571602113/ Facebook Event], if you are so inclined. Sadly, a Facebook login is required to access that page.)

[[user:yan | yan]]

[[user:Turkshead | shannon]]

[[user:Mct| mct]]

[[user:Davidme | davidme]]

[[user:judytuna | judytuna]]

[[user:Lizzard | Liz]]

[[user:zestyping | Ping]]

[[user:gardner | gardner!!]]

[[user:unixjazz | felipe]]

[[user:Bernie | bernie]]

[[User:Christie|Christie]]

== Notes on Demos ==

https://pad.riseup.net/p/guKU1mPGOlbV

File:Reddit-users.png

2013-01-28T03:30:59Z

Zestyping: Number of users actively reading the top five subreddits, charted over a week.

Number of users actively reading the top five subreddits, charted over a week.

User:Zestyping

2013-01-27T09:50:17Z

Zestyping:

Hi, it's [http://zesty.ca/ Ping].

[http://twitter.com/zestyping @zestyping]

Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon

2013-01-27T09:49:44Z

Zestyping: /* Schedule */

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 ==

Post and gather volunteers for project ideas [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=1 on this spreadsheet]. Most of them need someone to volunteer to be the point of contact.

Major projects hacked on on Friday:
*Open Journal (mek)
*Cleaning up http://www.data.gov (Yan, Robert, Eric, Connie, Ian, Evan, David)

In addition, lots of suggested ideas were added to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=3.

Things that people did on Saturday:
*Continue data.gov project
*Look into FOIA-type requests to liberate academic journals/datasets
*Scrape websites and stuff
*Learn LaTeX
*Discuss academic publishing reform
*Work on porting Recap to Chrome
*A bunch of talks (see below)
*BACE timebank
*Open Library
*Chromatest and Eric played some sick DJ sets!

== Schedule ==

Talks are relatively informal, supposedly fun, and probably won't go for an hour each.

Scheduled talks/demos (tentative):

'''Friday'''
*7 pm: Hackathon starts, Yan probably says some words and asks for money.
*8 pm: Keynote talk on Aaron's life and work by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_O'Brien Danny O'Brien]

'''Saturday'''
*4 pm: ''Step 1: FOIA, Step 2: ??, Step 3: Profit'', [[user:zestyping | Ping]]. How to write Freedom of Information Act request letters to do good things for the world.
*5 pm: ''Hacktivism: On social justice movements'', [http://www.linkedin.com/in/djabbour Daniel Jabbour]. A brief history of social justice movements, and my own experience with policy reform and hacktivism.
*6 pm: ''Principles of Low Power Design'', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.
*7 pm: ''Improving the Scientific Process through Software'', [http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellows/fellow_profile.aspx?d=1205 Jacob Steinhardt]. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't.
*8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk

'''Sunday'''
*4 pm: ''Data hacking: Machine learning + NLP'', [https://twitter.com/turian Joseph Turian]. I will answer questions about machine learning, NLP, scraping, data hacking etc.
*5 pm: ''Scrape ALL the data!'', how to scrape info from web pages with just a little Python, [[user:zestyping | Ping]]
*6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.

'''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events'''
*DJ set by [http://www.chromatest.net/ Chromatest J. Pantsmaker]
*DIY Book Scanner workshop
*Field trip to look for hidden cameras in public places around the Mission
*[http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm Ilsa Bartlett] is a "crisis counselor for highly intelligent people (geeks) who need someone to talk to and creates a container of quiet for people to fill with their issues." She will be around to provide counseling during the hackathon.
*[http://ipadportraits.blogspot.com/ David Newman], ipad portrait artist, showed up and started painting portraits of people hacking on Saturday.

If you'd like to give a talk/workshop, add it to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=2.

== Who's going? ==

(There's also a [https://www.facebook.com/events/119075571602113/ Facebook Event], if you are so inclined. Sadly, a Facebook login is required to access that page.)

[[user:yan | yan]]

[[user:Turkshead | shannon]]

[[user:Mct| mct]]

[[user:Davidme | davidme]]

[[user:judytuna | judytuna]]

[[user:Lizzard | Liz]]

[[user:zestyping | Ping]]

[[user:gardner | gardner!!]]

[[user:unixjazz | felipe]]

[[user:Bernie | bernie]]

Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon

2013-01-25T22:50:07Z

Zestyping: /* Projects */

User:Zestyping

2013-01-22T03:18:40Z

Zestyping:

Hi, it's [http://zesty.ca/ Ping].

User:Zestyping

2013-01-22T03:17:47Z

Zestyping: Created page with "Hi, it's Ping."

Hi, it's [[ http://zesty.ca/ | Ping]].