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*4 pm: ''Data hacking: Machine learning + NLP'', [https://twitter.com/turian Joseph Turian]. I will answer questions about machine learning, NLP, scraping, data hacking etc.
*4 pm: ''Data hacking: Machine learning + NLP'', [https://twitter.com/turian Joseph Turian]. I will answer questions about machine learning, NLP, scraping, data hacking etc.
*5 pm: ''Scrape ALL the data!'', how to scrape info from web pages with just a little Python, [[user:zestyping | Ping]]
*5 pm: ''Scrape ALL the data!'', how to scrape info from web pages with just a little Python, [[user:zestyping | Ping]]
** Get the scrape module here: http://zesty.ca/python/scrape.py
** Tutorial and documentation here: http://zesty.ca/scrape/
** Example of a scrape script that tells you how many users are reading a particular subreddit: http://zesty.ca/python/reddit_users.py
*6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.
*6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.



Revision as of 19:47, 27 January 2013

In memory of Aaron Swartz, and in coordination with a world-wide effort, Noisebridge will be hosting a hackathon starting Friday, January 25th, and continuing through Sunday, January 27th.

Intro

Aaron was a hacktivist and friend of many in our community. He helped create RSS 1.0; contributed to Creative Commons; was an early builder of Reddit, where he's often acknowledged as a co-founder; created the web.py framework; and more recently, became a data liberator, first with PACER and then with scholarly articles from JSTOR, both of which got him into trouble with the law.

Aaron's Demand Progress project helped stop SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act in the US, which threatened to have far reaching unintended consequences.

Aaron Swartz committed suicide on Jan. 11, 2013, but his work on making the world a better place should not die with him. Join us for two days of understanding his work and contributing to keep his memory and projects alive.

(This section adapted with permission from the Bangalore hackathon.)

Event Details

When: 7pm Jan. 25 - 7pm Jan. 27

What: Come learn new skills and work together on projects that Aaron would have liked. Themes include open information access, sharing and preserving human knowledge, hacking for social/political justice, and techno-activism.

Organizers: yan, shannon, mct

Remote collab: mailing list

The event is free, but we'll have donation boxes for purchasing food and project supplies. BYO-snacks-and-energy-drinks.

Projects

Post and gather volunteers for project ideas on this spreadsheet. Most of them need someone to volunteer to be the point of contact.

Major projects hacked on on Friday:

  • Open Journal (mek)
  • Cleaning up http://www.data.gov (Yan, Robert, Eric, Connie, Ian, Evan, David)

In addition, lots of suggested ideas were added to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=3.


Things that people did on Saturday:

  • Continue data.gov project
  • Look into FOIA-type requests to liberate academic journals/datasets
  • Scrape websites and stuff
  • Learn LaTeX
  • Discuss academic publishing reform
  • Work on porting Recap to Chrome
  • A bunch of talks (see below)
  • BACE timebank
  • Open Library
  • Chromatest and Eric played some sick DJ sets!


Things that people did on Sunday:

Schedule

Talks are relatively informal, supposedly fun, and probably won't go for an hour each.

Scheduled talks/demos (tentative):

Friday

  • 7 pm: Hackathon starts, Yan probably says some words and asks for money.
  • 8 pm: Keynote talk on Aaron's life and work by Danny O'Brien

Saturday

  • 4 pm: Step 1: FOIA, Step 2: ??, Step 3: Profit, Ping. How to write Freedom of Information Act request letters to do good things for the world.
  • 5 pm: Hacktivism: On social justice movements, Daniel Jabbour. A brief history of social justice movements, and my own experience with policy reform and hacktivism.
  • 6 pm: Principles of Low Power Design, Alex Newman. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.
  • 7 pm: Improving the Scientific Process through Software, Jacob Steinhardt. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't.
  • 8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk


Sunday

Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events

  • DJ set by Chromatest J. Pantsmaker
  • DIY Book Scanner workshop
  • Field trip to look for hidden cameras in public places around the Mission
  • Ilsa Bartlett is a "crisis counselor for highly intelligent people (geeks) who need someone to talk to and creates a container of quiet for people to fill with their issues." She will be around to provide counseling during the hackathon.
  • David Newman, ipad portrait artist, showed up and started painting portraits of people hacking on Saturday.

If you'd like to give a talk/workshop, add it to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai2JAMm86EJbdFg1TW5tenNJSUt3X2dVVmQ3M08xSlE#gid=2.

Who's going?

(There's also a Facebook Event, if you are so inclined. Sadly, a Facebook login is required to access that page.)

yan

shannon

mct

davidme

judytuna

Liz

Ping

gardner!!

felipe

bernie

Christie

Notes on Demos

https://pad.riseup.net/p/guKU1mPGOlbV