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*Location: [https://metalab.at/ Metalab], Vienna, Austria | *Location: [https://metalab.at/ Metalab], Vienna, Austria | ||
*Organizers: michael@emhofer.net | *Organizers: michael@emhofer.net | ||
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*Location: | *Location: Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt 4 (Fablab entrance) | ||
*Organizers: | *Organizers: henk@waag.org,patrice@waag.org | ||
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*Location: [http://www.nycresistor.com NYC Resistor], New York, US | *Location: [http://www.nycresistor.com NYC Resistor], New York, US | ||
*Organizers: spocksplanet@gmail.com, cdjeremy@gmail.com, jonathan@jedahan.com | *Organizers: spocksplanet@gmail.com, cdjeremy@gmail.com, jonathan@jedahan.com | ||
*Website: https://aaronshackathon.eventbrite.com/ | *Website: https://aaronshackathon.eventbrite.com/ | ||
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Revision as of 09:20, 8 February 2013
In memory of hacktivist Aaron Swartz, there will be 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 coordination spreadsheet. You can contact the main coordinator for the worldwide effort via email.
In order to provide some online continuity between events please feel free to use the #aaronsw IRC channel, and the #aaronsw tag.
Beirut
Details
- Dates: Jan. 30, 2013. 20:00 (UTC+2)
- Location: 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: 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:
- 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
A more detailed report is in the works and will be added soon!
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: Metalab, Vienna, Austria
- Organizers: michael@emhofer.net
- Website: https://metalab.at/wiki/Hackathon_9
Paris
Details
- Dates: Jan 26 15:00 - Jan 27
- Location: Fabelier, Paris, France
- Organizers: @Fabelier
- Website: http://fabelier.org/aaronsw-hackathon-hack-your-phd/
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: 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)
Rio de Janeiro
Details
- Dates: Feb 2 ?
- Location: 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: Noisebridge, San Francisco, US
- Organizers: yan@mit.edu, shannon@scatter.com, mct@toren.net
- Website: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon
Boston
Details
- Dates: Feb 2nd at 12 pm to Feb 3rd at 8 pm
- Location: 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: 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: 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: Pumping Station: One, Chicago, US
- Organizers: shekay@pobox.com
- Website: http://piratepad.net/BfOD8GoTb9
Vancouver
Details
- Dates: Jan 19 19:30 - Jan 20 1:00
- Location: 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 (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
Details
- Date: February 9th 12:00 - 18:00 (open-ended)
- Location: 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.