Aaron Swartz Day was once based, in 2013, after the demise of Aaron Swartz, with those mixed targets:
To draw consideration to what took place to Aaron, in the hopes of preventing it from going down to someone else.
– This contains clarifying that, despite the fact that Aaron was once a hacker, he didn’t hack MIT.
To supply a every year exhibit of many of the tasks that had been began by way of Aaron earlier than his demise.
– SecureDrop
– Open Library
To supply a every year exhibit of new tasks that had been without delay encouraged by way of Aaron and his paintings.
A couple of Aaron-inspired examples from this 12 months’s tournament come with:
– The Pursuance Project (by way of Barrett Brown & Steve Phillips)
– Open Archive (by way of Natalie Cadranel)
– Jason Leopold’s Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) activism (article from 2013)
Happening at the moment is a livestream from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. PST of “intimate virtual talks,” together with a unique presentation by way of contributors of Brazil’s Aaron Swartz Institute beginning in only some mins. You too can playback video for talks that took place previous as of late.
Other audio system come with:
- Scifi novelist/generation activist Cory Doctorow (11 a.m.)
- Signal consumer give a boost to engineer/challenge supervisor Riya Abraham (11:30 a.m.)
- EFF government director Cindy Cohn (12)
- EFF Certbot director of engineering Alexis Hancock (12:20)
- Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle (12:40)
- Anaconda CEO Peter Wang (1)
- The Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Kevin O’Gorman (talking on SecureDrop at 1:30)
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