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AaronSwHackATX

Page history last edited by shanta stevens 10 years, 4 months ago

Within weeks of Aaron's death in January of 2013, 20 hackerspaces, schools, and libraries organized Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon events all over the world. In our collective shock and grief, we came together to console ourselves, remember Aaron, and to work on important problems ranging all the way from open access advocacy to a web.py database refactor.

 

Inspired by the work he did and the people he touched, recurring hackathons at locations all over the world are being organized in memory of Aaron Swartz. The next set will be synchronized on the weekend of November 8-10, 2013. The event will bring together the varied communities that Aaron touched to figure out how the important problems of the world connect, and to share the load of working on those problems.

 

Half a year later, we still feel an immense shock and loss. The world Aaron helped shape is still far from open and we must honor Aaron's legacy by working together to change that.

 

Join us at the fabulous ATX Hackerspace from 7pm Friday 11/8 until 1pm Sunday 11/10, to work for 42 hours on projects that would honor Aaron Swartz' dream of truly open access and strengthen Austin's already impressive hacker community.

Although any project in the spirit of Aaron's work is welcome, these have migrated to the top of the list:
* tor2web and jot2tor
* Fork the Law
* Archiving Aaron's writings
* Mailpile
* Prosecutorial Overreach/Underreach
* Transparency Toolkit
* Restore the Fourth
& * SecureDrop ...already launched, posthumously: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/aaron-swartzs-unfinished-whistleblowing-platform-finally-launches/


here is a more extensive list of project ideas...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=1

 

Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon: ATX - #AaronSwHackATX

42 hours: Friday November 8 @ 7:00pm until Sunday November 10 @ 1:00pm

ATX Hackerspace: 9701 Dessau Rd, Suite 304, Austin, Texas 78754

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/543408382405458/


Reddit:http://redd.it/1pdc7a

 

 

Parent events:

http://aaronswartzhackathon.org/

http://hackdaymanifesto.com/

Our Sponsor(s)!  Thank you for feeding us...

 

* RojoRoboto

 

 

Sign up for the event and/or volunteer Shifts!

Sign up for a project!

 


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