There will be a special screening of "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story
of Aaron Swartz" before February's PLUG meeting at 5pm on
Feb 12th in the same room as the meeting.
"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
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 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 7pm. Our topics
will be Elasticsearch and Salt Stack.
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