Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons
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.
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:
- Location: Metalab, Vienna, Austria
- Organizers: michael@emhofer.net
- Website:
Paris
Details
- Dates: Jan 26 15:00 - Jan 27
- Location: Fabelier, Paris, France
- Organizers: @Fabelier
- Website: http://fabelier.org/aaronsw-hackathon-hack-your-phd/
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:
- Location:
- Organizers: contact@techinc.nl
- Website:
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 2, times TBD
- Location: BUilds, Boston, US
- Organizers: shidash@shidash.com, spectranaut@gmail.com, brianbrian@gmail.com, bcourter@gmail.com, dannyc@bu.edu
- Website:
New York
Details
- Dates: Feb 2 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.