Hello everybody,

Tomorrow is an important day for the free knowledge and open source movements: Aaron Swartz's Day.

Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/

Not sure if we have anything already for this, but just thought we could acknowledge it (EFF, Creative Commons are): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/weekend-join-us-honoring-legacy-aaron-swartz-hacking-better-world

Daily Dot already has an article posted: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/aaron-swartz-day-hackathon-2014/

I'll have a full list of coverage per usual with the media report on Monday.

Proposed Social media

t: Remembering Aaron Swartz: Did you know he had the idea for Wikipedia when he was only 13 years old? https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/

t: Remembering an internet innovator: Today is Aaron Swartz Day
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/

f/g:   "He believed strongly that the freedoms that we take for granted online are constantly under threat and need to be defended." Today, we remember an extraordinary internet activist, wikipedian, and friend. It is Aaron Swartz Day: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/





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Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss@wikimedia.org