[Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead

[Andy Mabbett]

Splendidly done. I'm mobile all day; could someone add a link to that, from
the relevant section of [[WP: RIP]], please?
On Jan 13, 2013 6:45 AM, "Tilman Bayer" <tbayer at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> The blog post it out now:
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >> > Official statement from the family:
> >> >
> >> > http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-**
> >> > statement-from-the-family-and-**partner-of<
> >>
> http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/40373383323/official-statement-from-the-family-and-partner-of
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I hope someone will perhaps write a blog post for the Wikimedia blog
> >> about
> >> > his impact on the Wikimedia and free knowledge movement. This could
> be a
> >> > community project.
> >> >
> >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Blog<
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog>
> >> >
> >> > -Sarah
> >> >
> >>
> >> I do not know about a blog post, but a few San Francisco Wikimedians
> >> (myself included) are exploring the possibility of holding a quiet,
> >> respectful open house next week in honor of Aaron, hosted at the
> >> Foundation.
> >>
> >> I should emphasize that we haven't decided yet, since if Creative
> Commons
> >> or the EFF are holding events of any kind, we will likely defer to
> >> supporting that, rather than holding anything separately. I will keep
> folks
> >> posted.
> >>
> >>
> > Hi all - sharing with you in this real sense of loss and sadness. It's
> hard
> > to believe it was just a year ago that the energy around SOPA was
> > everywhere in the Wikimedia movement, and I think it's safe to say that
> > Aaron was so much the nucleus of that energy.
> >
> > Re a blog post - yes, we're working on something now for the Wikimedia
> > blog, but what I think we'd really like to do is point to a community
> > memorial on Wikipedia or meta or wherever, where our community might be
> > recording their thoughts on Aaron. I suspect we would also point to the
> > memorial referenced by his family.
> >
> > Has anyone seen such an on-wiki memorial? Might someone be able to
> > propose/create such a page if it doesn't already exist? There are so many
> > voices in our community who have something to say about Aaron, it would
> be
> > great to share that.
> >
> > jay
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jay Walsh
> > Senior Director, Communications
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> > blog.wikimedia.org
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> Tilman Bayer
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