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In memory of Aaron Swartz, and in coordination with a 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 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 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 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: yan, shannon, mct

Remote collab: mailing list

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

Projects

There are a bunch of project ideas here. Most of them need someone to volunteer to be the point of contact.

Schedule

Talks are relatively informal.

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 Danny O'Brien

Saturday

  • 4 pm: Data hacking: Machine learning + NLP, Joseph Turian. I will answer questions about machine learning, NLP, scraping, data hacking etc.
  • 5 pm: Hacktivism: On social justice movements, 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, Alex Newman. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.
  • 7 pm: Improving the Scientific Process through Software, Jacob Steinhardt. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't.

Sunday

  • 4 pm: Towards Open Access in the Sciences, Yan Zhu. Why open journal access is important for scientific progress and what we can do to facilitate it.
  • 5 pm: Closing remarks by Danny O'Brien
  • 5:15 pm - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.

Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events

  • DJ set by Chromatest J. Pantsmaker
  • Workshop on how to write letters for FOIA requests
  • DIY Book Scanner workshop
  • Field trip to look for hidden cameras in public places around the Mission

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 Facebook Event, if you are so inclined. Sadly, a Facebook login is required to access that page.)

yan

shannon

mct

davidme

judytuna

Liz

Ping

gardner!!

felipe