Coincidentally, the us WMF Researchers have been working with some academics and community members to organize a global research hackathon on Nov. 9th.
See: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/November_9th,_2013 And: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:L2 -Aaron On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > There is a plan for a worldwide round of Aaron Hackathons, on the upcoming > Nov 8-10 weekend. > > http://aaronswartzhackathon.**org/ <http://aaronswartzhackathon.org/> > > Coordination: > https://www.noisebridge.net/**wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_** > Memorial_Hackathon_Series<https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_Series> > > 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<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/ >> <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 >> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
