Thanks for the information, and my condoleances to those who knew him. Sounds like a very, very interesting person. Kind regards Ziko
2013/1/12 Everton Zanella Alvarenga <ezalvare...@wikimedia.org>: > [...] > > "The first site I built was called get.info. The idea was to have a > free, online encyclopedia that anyone could edit or add things to or > reorganize, right through their web browser. I built the whole thing, > added lots of cool features, tested it on all sorts of browsers, and > was very proud of it. It actually won even a prize for one of the best > new web applications that year. Unfortunately, the only people I knew > at the time were other kids in my school, so I didn't really have > anyone writing a lot of encyclopedia articles. (Luckily, several years > later, my mother pointed me to this new site called "Wikipedia" that > was doing the same thing.)" > > [...] > > From "How to Get a Job Like Mine" <https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget>. > > Thanks for the links bellow. This was a really horrible lost for all of us. > > Tom > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> As has been noted, Aaron (User:AaronSw) was a prolific Wikipedian >> since 2003 and a candidate in the 2006 Board election. His writings >> during his election campaign are worth re-reading: >> >> http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads >> http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia >> http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whorunswikipedia >> http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedians >> http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedias >> http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikicodeislaw >> >> He was also described as "one of the early architects of Creative >> Commons" by Larry Lessig [1], and founded infogami which merged into >> Reddit, so he's sometimes called a Reddit co-founder as well. >> >> Since then he's turned to activism and co-founded Demand Progress >> which has been rallying opposition to bad Internet law, including >> SOPA/PIPA. >> >> Cory Doctorow's obituary is a very personal goodbye and includes a >> video of Aaron's talk "How we stopped SOPA". >> >> http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html >> >> Aaron was an intense, passionate and focused intellectual who >> dedicated his life to changing the world for the better - and he did. >> It's a shocking loss and deeply sad that he left us so early, that he >> saw no other way. May he rest in peace. >> >> Erik >> >> [1] http://www.lessig.org/2006/09/if-i-could-vote-on-the-wikiped/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > -- > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) > "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more > useful than a life spent doing nothing." > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
