The movie is available on YouTube -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58 I would recommend watching
it. It is eye opening.
On 2015-01-28 02:08, der.hans wrote:
moin moin,
There will be a pecial screening of "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story
of Aaron Swartz" before February's PLUG east side meeting at 17:00 on
2015Feb12.
According to Wikipedia, Aaron Swartz "was an American computer
programmer,
entrepreneur, writer, political organizer and Internet hacktivist who
was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS and the
Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, the
website
framework web.py and the social news site, Reddit, in which he became a
partner after its merger with his company, Infogami. He committed
suicide
while under federal indictment for data-theft, a prosecution that was
characterized by his family as being \"the product of a
criminal-justice
system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach\"".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
"The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" is a documentary
about
the life of Aaron, his technical achievements and his work in social
justice and political organization.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=dTcancWUiwc&x-yt-cl=84503534
Official site: http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy
The EFF has a good article on Aaron and the movie.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/aaron-swarts-work-internets-own-boy
See Lawrence Lessig's keynote from last year's SCaLE for an example of
what Aaron was able to inspire.
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/message-lawrence-lessig
The movie is licensed Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
3.0 Unported License, so we can show it.
It's also available for download, rent and purchase.
http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy#watch
The film features interviews with Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn (EFF),
Gabriella Coleman, Cory Doctorow, Peter Eckersley (EFF), Lawrence
Lessig,
Reprasentative Zoe Lofgren, Tim O'Reilly and other people we should
know
more about.
See the full cast list on IMDB.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
Our regular meeting will take place after the movie at 19:00. Our
topics
will be Elasticsearch and Salt Stack.
ciao,
der.hans
--
Keith Smith
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