There is a plan for a worldwide round of Aaron Hackathons, on the
upcoming Nov 8-10 weekend.
http://aaronswartzhackathon.org/
Coordination:
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_…
We have been invited to run a hackathon. Can we organize it? We would
need to find a project and a critical mass of contributors willing to
document and coordinate the hackathon.
One possibility could be to kick-off the hackathon on Friday 8 Nov in a
physical location (San Francisco), and focus initially on the
distribution of tasks. Then remote participants could also participate
taking tasks, participating with the rest of the group on some IRC
channel and occasional videoconferences.
About the project, I personally think that it should have a link with
the motivation of the hackathon:
"We were part of an inchoate, ad-hoc community of collaborators who
helped each other learn how to code. No, not how to write code ‒ how to
write code for the purpose of changing the world." - Zooko, on memories
of Aaron
See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Life_and_works
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013, Noah Swartz wrote:
Hey assorted Wikimedia people,
As I may have mentioned to some of you previously, we're running another
round of Aaron Hackathons, on the upcoming Nov 8-10 weekend. I was
wondering if WMF would be interested in providing a project for people to
work on. For each event we're hoping to have one well structured project
that people - both technical and non - can work on that can have some
support from people who have worked on it or related projects previously,
so that participants can jump right in.
Would you be willing to structure something for people to work on? If not
are there other WMF related things that people can do? Maybe go through a
list of open bugs or feature requests? Or maybe just writing documents, or
doing outreach, any project is welcome.
Currently we have two tentative events in SF and ~5 more confirmed
locations elsewhere around the world. We have a very basic landing page up
at
http://aaronswartzhackathon.org/ which might give you more of a sense of
what's going on. I assume that SF is the location that works best for you
but let me know if you think somewhere else would be good. I'd really love
to see you all participate so let me know if there's anything I can do to
help.
As always feel free to pass this along to anyone else who you think might
be interested, and I'm happy to answer any and all questions you have.
Looking forward to hearing back soon!
Noah