Re: Internet's Own Boy movie afternoon before Feb PLUG mtg

The movie is available on YouTube -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58 I would recommend watching
it. It is eye opening.



On 2015-01-28 02:08, der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> There will be a pecial screening of "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story
> of Aaron Swartz" before February's PLUG east side meeting at 17:00 on
> 2015Feb12.
>
> According to Wikipedia, Aaron Swartz "was an American computer
> programmer,
> entrepreneur, writer, political organizer and Internet hacktivist who
> was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS and the
> Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, the
> website
> framework web.py and the social news site, Reddit, in which he became a
> partner after its merger with his company, Infogami. He committed
> suicide
> while under federal indictment for data-theft, a prosecution that was
> characterized by his family as being \"the product of a
> criminal-justice
> system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach\"".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
>
> "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" is a documentary
> about
> the life of Aaron, his technical achievements and his work in social
> justice and political organization.
>
> Trailer:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=dTcancWUiwc&x-yt-cl=84503534
>
> Official site: http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy
>
> The EFF has a good article on Aaron and the movie.
>
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/aaron-swarts-work-internets-own-boy
>
> See Lawrence Lessig's keynote from last year's SCaLE for an example of
> what Aaron was able to inspire.
>
> http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/message-lawrence-lessig
>
> The movie is licensed Creative Commons
> Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
> 3.0 Unported License, so we can show it.
>
> It's also available for download, rent and purchase.
>
> http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy#watch
>
> The film features interviews with Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn (EFF),
> Gabriella Coleman, Cory Doctorow, Peter Eckersley (EFF), Lawrence
> Lessig,
> Reprasentative Zoe Lofgren, Tim O'Reilly and other people we should
> know
> more about.
>
> See the full cast list on IMDB.
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
>
> Our regular meeting will take place after the movie at 19:00. Our
> topics
> will be Elasticsearch and Salt Stack.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans

--
Keith Smith
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