From AaronSwartzDay.com:

Aaron Swartz Day was founded, in 2013, after the death of Aaron Swartz, with these combined goals:

To draw attention to what happened to Aaron, in the hopes of stopping it from happening to anyone else.
– This includes clarifying that, although Aaron was a hacker, he didn’t hack MIT.

To provide a yearly showcase of many of the projects that were started by Aaron before his death.
– SecureDrop
– Open Library

To provide a yearly showcase of new projects that were directly inspired by Aaron and his work.

A few Aaron-inspired examples from this year’s event include:

– The Pursuance Project (by Barrett Brown & Steve Phillips)
– Open Archive (by Natalie Cadranel)
– Jason Leopold’s Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) activism (article from 2013)

Happening right now is a livestream from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. PST of “intimate virtual talks,” including a special presentation by members of Brazil’s Aaron Swartz Institute starting in just a few minutes. You can also playback video for talks that happened earlier today.

Other speakers include:

Scifi novelist/technology activist Cory Doctorow (11 a.m.)Signal user support engineer/project manager Riya Abraham (11:30 a.m.)EFF executive director Cindy Cohn (12)EFF Certbot director of engineering Alexis Hancock (12:20)Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle (12:40)Anaconda CEO Peter Wang (1)The Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Kevin O’Gorman (speaking on SecureDrop at 1:30)

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot – EFF, Cory Doctorow, Others Speak in Commemoration of Aaron Swartz Day