That's not a funny joke... On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > Which websites are you planning on hacking into? > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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