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


'''Saturday'''
'''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.
*4 pm: ''Step 1: FOIA, Step 2: ??, Step 3: Profit'', [http://zesty.ca/ Ka-Ping Yee]. 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]]
*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.
** Here's an example of a [[FOIA letter]], asking the FBI for their records on Noisebridge.
*6 pm: ''Principles of Low Power Design'', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.  
*5 pm: '''Hacktivism: On social justice movements''', [http://twitter.com/bitgangsta Daniel Jabbour]. A brief history of social justice movements, and my own experience with policy reform and hacktivism.
*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.
** Slides available online [http://amoe.ba/presentations/hacktivism here]
*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: [http://cs.stanford.edu/~jsteinhardt/software_for_science.pdf '''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
*8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk




'''Sunday'''
'''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.
*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]]
*5 pm: ''Scrape ALL the data!'', how to scrape info from web pages with just a little Python [http://zesty.ca Ping]
** Get the scrape module here: http://zesty.ca/python/scrape.py
*6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.
** Tutorial and documentation here: http://zesty.ca/scrape/
** Example of a scrape script that gets your watchlist on the Noisebridge wiki: http://zesty.ca/python/noisebridge_wiki.py
** 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'''
'''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events'''
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[[user:Bernie | bernie]]
[[user:Bernie | bernie]]
[[User:Christie|Christie]]
= Demos =
Notes from presentations on Sunday, Jan 27
== improving access to data.gov ==
*Project participants:
**chris , dev
**connie, product
**eric, dev
**evan, dev
**ken, ux
**neil, dev
**paul, design
**robert, dev/product
**yan, product
*created in 2008 to provide access to public data
*what data does data.gov have? not immediately clear
*build an alternative portal?
*experimental new portal already in progress at alpha.data.gov
*built new tag cloud explorer for data.gov this weekend, presently at http://data2.me/
== book scanner ==
*participants:
**David Nelson
**Adam Kraft adam at media.mit.edu
vaccuum-powered page-turning arm for book scanner, built out of random parts that were laying around. NOT the Dany Q one, that one costs $1500 (and is awesome) but this one is under $100. It isn't actually scanning books yet so far, just turning pages. Interested in feedback on mechanism & software.
== RECAP ==
http://recapthelaw.org/
Ping demonstrates PACER, the US federal court's paywall for public-domain legal documents, and how it charges $0.10 per "page" for everything (including search results!). The RECAP browser extension uploads PACER results to the Internet Archive so that others will not have to pay the fees. If you are about to pay for a document which someone else has already uploaded, it allows you to retrieve it from archive.org instead. There are 854,711 items in the archive.org RECAP collection so far.
The RECAP browser extension for Firefox is at: http://github.com/citp/recap
The hackathon project was to develop RECAP for Chrome: http://github.com/zestyping/recap-chrome
Currently, RECAP for Chrome checks the Internet Archive to see which documents are available, and adds links to the page so you can get the documents for free instead of paying to download them from PACER.  It doesn't upload documents to the Internet Archive yet, though -- that part still needs to be done.
== Fork the law ==
* Christie introduces in-progress new website for disucssing and editing laws.
** https://twitter.com/Fork_the_Law
** http://forkthelaw.org/ (not live yet)
* Fork, edit, test, commit.
* Commenting on law.
* Use as preparation for speaking with your lawmakers.
* Can participate in direct action, if you do not want to suggest specific changes.
* Backend uses http://www.co-ment.org
== Perception Society, Inc. (PSI) (paul) ==
* Chatroulette for mental health.
* Meant to address gap in mental health care for people who fear being diagnosed/labeled and thus don't go to hospitals or support groups
== Bitcoin Pogs (also paul) ==
* YES.
* Bitcoin dollar design featuring Neil DeGrasse Tyson, geometric shapes and shit, chipmunk QR code, LHC
* Then made Bitcoin pogs w/ Felix the Cat
* Kittycoin: bitcoin printed on a lolcat face
* Other designs for trillion-dollar francium bitcoin, etc.
== Aaron's blog (Sid) ==
* you should read it
* Sid talks about his study on the ideation of suicide as a cognitive linguistic model and its relation to Aaron's blog posts. He performed a limited analysis of the "Raw Nerve" posts over the weekend and explored it's use as corpus for identifying the linguistic ideation of suicide in other texts. We chat about some of the ethical issues involved in using computational linguistic analysis of blog posts to detect the ideation of suicide in an author.
* Resources for hackers to get help: http://www.saizai.com/depression
* Articles on the cognitive linguistic ideation of suicide:<br> Word Use in the Poetry of Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Poets: http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/63/4/517.full <br>Gaining Perspective through Expressive Writing http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/192529
== Knowledge for Good (Aviv) ==
http://knowledgeforgood.referata.com/wiki/Knowledge_for_Good
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