REMINDER: Internet's Own Boy movie 5pm just before Feb PLUG meeting

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Wed Feb 11 09:50:46 MST 2015


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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