Today is Aaron Swartz Day

Cory Doctorow 1:33 am Sat Nov 9, 2019

Lisa Rein writes, "Today, Saturday November 9th is Aaron Swartz Day all over the world. We have events going on all over the world here – with a Zoom channel and
Gitters set up for questions that will be monitored from San Francisco all day (The San Francisco event details are here for FOIAPALOOZA).

Also we have a ton of projects, that folks can hack on from anywhere – even the comfort of their own home. These include SecureDrop & Open Library, which Aaron co-created, and also, for journalists and researchers, we've collected all the documents from our Police Surveillance Project."

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