The Internet Archive is hosting a two-day hackathon, on Saturday, November 4th (10am-6pm) and Sunday, November 5th (11am-6pm). RSVP HERE
Admission is FREE! But you must RSVP, as space is limited. You may use a pseudonym, but you will still need an email to go with it, so we can confirm you the day before the show, if we need to.
Food and refreshments will be provided, so you don’t have to leave the building from 10 am until 9:30pm, if you are so inclined. (Yes there are vegetarian and vegan options 🙂
As always, this is a great opportunity to hack on SecureDrop, the whistleblower submission system originally created by Aaron and Kevin Poulsen, that is now managed by the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Jen Helsby, SecureDrop’s Lead Developer and Connor Schaefer, SecureDrop’s Senior DevOps Engineer, will be on hand to answer questions.
In addition, there are several other hackathon tracks that we will be fleshing out over in the weeks leading up to the event. (This is just a starting list):
- Ethical Algorithms (SF: panel on Saturday, 2pm)
- Usable Crypto (SF: a panel and the first ever live demo of the Pursuance Project on Saturday, 3pm) (Interview with Barrett Brown and Steve Phillips about Pursuance.)
- FOIA (SF: a presentation by Jason Leopold, Saturday, 5pm)
- Simple Secure Messaging 101
Here is a tentative schedule:
Saturday
9:30 am Breakfast – The fun starts Saturday morning – bright and early at 9:30 am. Grab a bagel and some coffee and start deciding what to do next from a wide range of possibilities.
10:00 am SecureDrop Hackathon Begins
Upstairs in the Great Room:
10:00 am – Introduction to Aaron Swartz Day
– Lisa Rein, Mek Karpeles and various project leaders:
-Lisa Rein (Simple Secure Messaging 101)
-Nathalie Cadranel (OpenArchive)
-Steve Phillips (Pursuance Project)
-Mek Karpeles (Open Library)
-Internet Archive (AI for IA)
12 pm – Downstairs – Lunch
Lunch is from Noon – 1pm – Make sure you eat a big lunch to get you through an exciting afternoon. But if you don’t, there’s food downstairs all day, for when you realize you’re about to fall over 🙂
1pm – 1:45 pm – Hacker Culture Panel – w/audience Q and A and questions from internet. Panel: Gabriella Coleman, Lisa Rein and others. “Aaron was a hacker, but he didn’t hack MIT.’ Gabriella Coleman, hacker antropologist, Assistant Professor, Researcher. Lisa Rein, film maker “From DeadDrop to SecureDrop,” and other special guests to be announced.
2:00 – 2:45 pm – Ethical Algorithms Panel – w/Q and A. Kristian Lum (Human Rights Data Analysis Group – HRDAG) and Caroline Sinders (Wikimedia Foundation, Formerly of IBM Watson Chatbot team)
3pm -4:30 pm Barrett Brown and Steve Phillips – Building a Better Opposition: Process Democracy and the Second Wave of Online Resistance w/ Q and A (First live demo of the Pursuance Project!)
5pm – 6:00 pm – Jason Leopold’s FOIA Wisdom w/ Q and A
BuzzFeed’s Senior Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold will provide a FOIA how-to, with a presentation of “Tips and Tricks,” he has learned along the way. Jason wrote about Aaron’s FOIA request filings in the weeks following his death, and was greatly inspired by them.
6:00-7:00 pm Hackathon Reception – Join us in celebrating many incredible things that we’ve accomplished by this year!
We will toast to the launch of the Pursuance Project (an open source, end-to-end encrypted Project Management suite, envisioned by Barrett Brown and brought to life by Steve Phillips).
7:00-7:30 – Reception finishes up 7:10pm and guests will make will make their way upstairs
Speakers 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Sunday – Tentatively
10:30 – Breakfast
11 am -SECUREDROP hackathon continues 🙂
11 am – noon – Talks from Project Leaders about Hackathon Projects – Lisa Rein, Mek Karpeles, Project Leaders
NOON – 1pm LUNCH
1 – 2 pm EFF/Let’s Encrypt Lead Developer Jacob Hoffman-Andrews w audience Q and A
2 – 3 pm Pursuance Advanced Tech (w Q and A) – Steve Phillips and Barrett Brown
3-6 pm More intense technical/lightning talks
3:00 pm: TBA
3:20 pm: TBA
3:40 pm: TBA
4:00 pm: Natalie Cadranel – OpenArchive
4:20 pm: TBA (10 minute talk)
4:30 pm: John Light – A Brief History of Blockchain Name Systems
5:00 pm: TBA
5:20 pm: TBA
RSVP TO THE SAN FRANCISCO HACKATHON HERE