List of hackathons organized by lisa rein and the internet archive in 2018

At the Internet Archive – 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118       Ticket includes admission to the Opening Night Party at the DNA Lounge, November 9th - 9pm Evening Event Speakers (8:00pm-9:30pm): 8pm - 9:30 pm Evening Event - Special Guests Speaking or Performing (or both) Hosted by: Lisa Rein (Aaron Swartz Day, Creative Commons, The Swartz-Manning VR Destination, ASD Police Surveillance Project, ASD Solar Survival Project) Special Guests: A Live Analog Mixed-Media Performance by Projekt Seahorse aka Moun10 A Special Appearance by Chelsea Manning, giving her yearly "Statement for Aaron Swartz Day." A Conversation with Journalist Barrett Brown & Trevor Timm (Executive Director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation) (Barrett Brown won a National Magazine Award for his prison columns, & is the Author of the upcoming book: My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir. He is the Co-founder of the Pursuance Project, a Journalist, and a Former Political Prisoner.) Jen Helsby (Lead Developer, SecureDrop) (CTO and co-founder of Lucy Parsons Labs) Cindy Cohn ( Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation) Brewster Kahle (Founder, Internet Archive) Danny O'Brien (International Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation) A conversation with Danielle Robinson (Dat Project, Code for Science & Society) and Karissa McElvy (Digital Democracy, Open Source Developer) Steve Phillips (Privacy software developer; creator of CrypTag and Cypherpunks Write Code) Note that there will be an after event gathering at The Emporium - 616 Divisadero St. To play games, drink and dance to DJs till 2am. (Sunday's schedule doesn't start till 11 am :) Saturday Hackathon Schedule: 11:00 am -Doors Open - (Lunch served all day) 11:30 am -  Internet Archive Updates:What's New at the Internet Archive - Tracey Jaquith (TV/News Archive) & Brewster Kahle (Founder, Internet Archive) Audience Q & A. Internet Q & A. 12:00 pm – The Decentralized Web and the Dat Project–  Danielle Robinson, PhD  (Co-Executive Director, Code for Science and Society) & Karissa McKelvey (Digital Democracy,  Open Source Developer) Danielle and Karissa will explain exactly what the “open source decentralized web” is and how it can be implemented in the real world. (Complete with use cases!) Also, why you need to know and understand what the decentralized web is, and why it’s important. Audience Q & A. Internet Q & A. 1:00 pm How to Make Law Enforcement Accountable by Implementing A Surveillance Policy Framework - Tracy Rosenberg (Oakland Privacy), Dave Maass (Senior Investigative Researcher, EFF), Lisa Rein (Co-founder, Aaron Swartz Day).  Audience Q & A. Internet Q & A 2:00 pm - Freddy Martinez (Director, Lucy Parsons Labs) 2:30 pm - Andy McWilliams How Technologists Can Fight Climate Change (Director, ClimateAction.tech) 3:10 pm - Break (20 Minutes) 3:30 pm - Danny O'Brien - Article 13, Article 11: The Copyfight Strikes Back (International Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation) 4:30-6:00 pm  A conversation with Barrett Brown about his new book (My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir) & the Pursuance Project with Claire Peters (Director of Strategy, Pursuance Project). Hosted by Lisa Rein.  Audience Q & A. Internet Q & A. Including Questions all the way from ThoughtWorks’ Melbourne and Brisbane’s “Internet Freedom Hackathons” 6:00pm – 7:30pm – Hackathon Reception - More food and spirits! 7:30 pm – 8:00pm – Start migrating upstairs 8:00 pm SHARP! Evening event Begins (Upstairs in the Great Room) Sunday Hackathon Schedule: 11:00 - Lunch- Hackathon Information and Sync up Speakers in order with APPROXIMATE TIMES (Lengths of presentations will vary between 10-40 minutes - and all will have at least 5 minutes of Q & A . We will "go long" if we have to, to get questions in.) 11:30 - 12:10 pm - Keynote 1: Ashley Boyd Dumpster Fire or Opportunity? It's Up to Us. (VP Advocacy, Mozilla Foundation) Ashley will be focusing on how we can take advantage of the increasing public awareness and concern about digital safety to mobilize users to demand ethical, safe online tools. She will discuss some of the Mozilla Foundations latest accomplishments in the corporate sector, including examples like getting the easy-to-hack, privacy violating children's "Cloudpets" toys pulled from retailers' shelves (including Amazon). 12:10-12:50 pm - Keynote 2: Erin Gallagher - Mapping Twitter Networks (How to Map Complex Social Networks to Create Useful Visualizations) - Erin Gallagher uses open source network visualization software to see the complex webs our communications weave on Twitter. She will share some of the work she's done in the past 2 years analyzing hashtag networks. 12:50-1:15pm - Andy McWilliams - How Artists Are Reshaping Tech Research (Founder and Director of the ThoughtWorks Arts Residency program, the Art-A-Hack co-creation program, and the Hardware Hack Lab) 1:15 - 1:45 - Micah Blumberg - Brain Machine Interfaces 2018, 2019 & Beyond (Journalist, Researcher, Neurohacker, Founder Silicon Valley Global News) 1:45 pm-2:15 pm - Tatyana Griffin - Sound Design for VR: Best Practices & Practical Tips (Educator, Musician, DJ, XR Developer) (Speaking Sunday) (Tatyana is also Melotronix performing at Friday's Opening Night Party at the DNA Lounge) 2:15 pm-2:45 pm - Tracey Jaquith - Internet Archive and AR, AR for Architecture (TV/News Archive at Internet Archive,  & Dev Team for the Swartz-Manning VR Destination) 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm - Ryan Sternlicht - The Future of Immersion and the Creation of the Next Layer of Reality (Educator, Researcher, Advisor & Maker - Noisebridge) If you follow technology you have probably heard many things about AR, VR, MR and XR. Many have given their opinions on the technologies and systems in those sectors, but very few have given detailed information about the whole larger picture. Ryan will share his insight, along with information he has come across while researching these fields, to help us understand the space, and what it means for the world. 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm - William Clark (Programmer, Year Up Participant) - New Options for Community-Based Education (That Is Also Good For Business)  - How the "year up" program represents a positive trend of community education, which gives free education and job placement to college age youth. 3:30 pm - 3:40 - Olu Aganju - (Participant, Year Up) 3:40 pm-4 pm - Bernice Chua (Game and Algorithm Developer)   - Intro to ROS (Robot Operating System) 4 pm - 4:20 pm Matteo Borri (Robots Everywhere, NASA Contractor) - Re: Matteo's latest inventions and robots and lasers and NASA Mars Rover fun. 4:20 pm - 4:50 pm - Steve Phillips (Privacy software developer; creator of CrypTag and Cypherpunks Write Code) Break 4:50 - 5:00 pm 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm+ Lightning Talks on Hackathon Projects

(From left to right) (Top Row) Aaron Swartz, Cindy Cohn, Brewster Kahle, (Bottom row) Barrett Brown, DJ Spooky These Early Bird Passes are only available until midnight on August 15th. Hello everyone in Aaron Swartz Day-land. We are expecting a full house this year for our San Francisco Hackathon and subsequent Reception & Evening Event. This will be our largest event to date, and many of our speakers are flying in from out of town. For these reasons, in order to supplement our finances for this year's grand extravaganza, we have decided to sell some "Early Bird All Access" Passes. So, until midnight on August 15th, you can buy an "Early Bird All Access Pass" for only $20! (For up to 100 passes, while they last.) Each "Early Bird All Access Pass" Includes: 1) Admission to both days of the Hackathon ($25 value) (Don't panic. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. See the note at the bottom of this announcement :) 2) Admission to Reception and Evening Event ($50 Value) 3) Admission to November 9 Opening Night Party at the DNA Lounge - 10:00 pm-2am ($10 Value) 8pm - Evening Event - Special Guests Speaking or Performing (or both): DJ Spooky (Multimedia Artist, DJ/Musician, Author, Historian, Educator) Barrett Brown (Author of the upcoming book: My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir, Pursuance Project, Journalist, Former Political Prisoner) Lisa Rein (Aaron Swartz Day, Creative Commons, The Swartz-Manning VR Destination, ASD Police Surveillance Project, ASD Solar Survival Project) Cindy Cohn (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) Steve Phillips (Privacy Software Developer) Mek Karpeles (Open Library, Internet Archive) Plus More Special Guests - We will be making daily updates here! HACKATHON INFORMATION: Saturday 11am - 11pm Sunday 11am - 6pm New This Year: On site Virtual Reality, Robotics & 3-D Printing Demonstrations Hackathon Speakers Confirmed So Far (Many more coming): Barrett Brown (Author of the upcoming book: My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir, Pursuance Project, Journalist, Former Political Prisoner) Steve Phillips (Privacy Software Developer) Cyrus Farivar (Author of "Habeus Data," Technology Journalist, & Radio Producer) Tracey Jaquith (Internet Archive) Tracy Rosenberg (Oakland Privacy.net, Media Alliance) Dave Maass (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Matteo Borri (Robots Everywhere LLC, NASA (Mars Rover Contractor), ASD Solar Survival Project) Lisa Rein (Aaron Swartz Day, Creative Commons, The Swartz-Manning VR Destination, ASD Police Surveillance Project, ASD Solar Survival Project) Mek Karpeles (Open Library, Internet Archive) Lisa Rein and Barrett Brown at San Francisco's Noisebridge Hackerspace. As always, please write aaronswartzday@gmail.com if you need a free ticket. There are student discounts too, but you need to write us first to get the code.