There is a plan for a worldwide round of Aaron Hackathons, on the upcoming Nov 8-10 weekend.
http://aaronswartzhackathon.org/
Coordination: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_S...
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
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/ 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
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 qgil@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_Serieshttps://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_workshttps://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
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Which websites are you planning on hacking into?
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Quim Gil qgil@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_Serieshttps://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_workshttps://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
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That's not a funny joke...
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Anthony ok@theendput.com wrote:
Which websites are you planning on hacking into?
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Quim Gil qgil@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_Serieshttps://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_workshttps://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
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It wasn't really a joke. On Oct 11, 2013 5:34 PM, "Petr Bena" benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
That's not a funny joke...
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Anthony ok@theendput.com wrote:
Which websites are you planning on hacking into?
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Quim Gil qgil@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_S...
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%3E
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
http://aaronswartzhackathon.org/%3Ewhich 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
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Then you'd better make it clear whether you are: A) Completely ignorant of what the definition of a hackathon is. B) Trolling.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
On 2013-10-11 2:37 PM, Anthony wrote:
It wasn't really a joke. On Oct 11, 2013 5:34 PM, "Petr Bena" benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
That's not a funny joke...
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Anthony ok@theendput.com wrote:
Which websites are you planning on hacking into?
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Quim Gil qgil@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_S...
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%3E
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
http://aaronswartzhackathon.org/%3Ewhich 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
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On 10/11/2013 09:17 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
There is a plan for a worldwide round of Aaron Hackathons, on the upcoming Nov 8-10 weekend.
http://aaronswartzhackathon.org/
Coordination: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_S...
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.
While we didn't find the drivers and the critical mass, we still have a chance to help participating in the events hosted in San Francisco and other cities.
For the hackathon in San Francisco, see
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_S...
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/ 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
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