Aaron Swartz Day 2015

The Internet Archive is hosting an Aaron Swartz Day Celebration on what would have been Aaron’s 29th birthday: November 7, 2015, from 6-10:00 pm. (Reception 6pm - Event upstairs begins at 7:30 pm.)

The purpose of this event is to celebrate and remember Aaron, and also celebrate living hackers and whistleblowers that work hard to make the world a better place.

Movies: 7:30-8:00pm – Including scenes from “From DeadDrop to SecureDrop," a history of the open source whistleblowing submission platform, SecureDrop, that Aaron prototyped with Kevin Poulsen in 2013. SecureDrop now lives on, at the Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://securedrop.org/

Speakers 8:00-10:00pm:

Giovanni Damiola  (Open Library Project)

Garrett Robinson (SecureDrop)

Alison Macrina (Library Freedom Project)

Brewster Kahle (Digital Librarian, Internet Archive)                                                                                    

Cindy Cohn (Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation)          

Roger Dingledine (Interim Executive Director, Tor Project)

Micah Lee (Co-founder, Freedom of the Press Foundation and Technologist at “The Intercept”)

Jacob Appelbaum (Security Expert seen in Citizen Four, Wikileaks volunteer) (Appearing remotely)

John Perry Barlow (EFF and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder) and Special Guests.

A Special Statement from Chelsea Manning in celebration of this year's Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon

The event will take place following this year’s San Francisco-based Aaron Swartz International Hackathon, which is going on Saturday and Sunday from 11am-6pm at the Internet Archive: http://tinyurl.com/privacy-hackathon

Confirmed 2015 cities include:  Berlin, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco and Sau Paulo.