<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">Greetings privacy hackers, Noisebridgers, and Sudo Roomers,<br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">At this Saturday privacy hackathon we have a number of special things happening!<br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span class="gmail-size" style="font-size:18px">Lisa Rein + New Projects</span></span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">Firstly, we have a special guest, <span style="font-weight:700">Lisa Rein</span> (Co-Founder, Creative Commons & Aaron Swartz Day, Chelsea Manning's Archivist), <span class="gmail-highlight"><span class="gmail-colour"><span class="gmail-font"><span class="gmail-size">who will be speaking briefly at 5pm.  She will be announcing the continuation of Aaron Swartz Day projects through Cypherpunks Write Code(!!), and <b>introducing 2 new, awesome projects she would love our help with</b>. One is an </span></span></span></span><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="https://www.aaronswartzday.org/rss-news-reader-revival/" href="https://www.aaronswartzday.org/rss-news-reader-revival/" target="_blank">RSS Revival Project</a><span class="gmail-highlight"><span class="gmail-colour"><span class="gmail-font"><span class="gmail-size"> (which has both research and development components). The other is a </span></span></span></span><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="https://www.aaronswartzday.org/metadata-blowout-tool/" href="https://www.aaronswartzday.org/metadata-blowout-tool/" target="_blank">Metadata Blow Out Tool</a><span class="gmail-highlight"><span class="gmail-colour"><span class="gmail-font"><span class="gmail-size"> to enable folks up wipe out the location data on their phone images before uploading them to social media (so your location can't be so easily tracked by the photo's easy-to-grab geolocation data). Both will of course be open source. If you are interested in avoiding </span></span></span></span><i>real</i><span class="gmail-highlight"><span class="gmail-colour"><span class="gmail-font"><span class="gmail-size"> fake news or defending user privacy, you will want to check them out!  </span></span></span></span><i>Tech stack: TBD.</i><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span class="gmail-size" style="font-size:18px">Hackers of the World -- Unite!</span></span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">Secondly, we are calling out to all the international privacy hackers who were following remotely, watching the webcast online, and generally following our <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="https://www.aaronswartzday.org/" href="https://www.aaronswartzday.org/" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">Aaron Swartz Day</a> developments (where I spoke about Pursuance not-1-not-2-but-3 times this year!)<br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">If you would like to participate in Pursuance User Testing remotely, one way you could do it would be to register on <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="https://bit.ly/cwc-mminvite" href="https://bit.ly/cwc-mminvite" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">Pursuance's Mattermost chat server</a>, so we will be able to collaborate with you there. Until Pursuance builds out a bit more of its functionality, we will be using Mattermost to connect. This goes for all existing Aaron Swartz Day projects, the projects Lisa is announcing, and any projects of your own that you are looking to collaborate on with other members of the Aaron Swartz Day community. Exciting indeed to have people coming together from many parts of the globe. <span style="font-weight:700">So that's 4pm-10pm PST - on Saturday December 9th.</span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span class="gmail-size" style="font-size:18px">Pursuance</span></span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">Thirdly, we are officially beginning user testing of <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="https://pursuanceproject.org/" href="https://pursuanceproject.org/" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">Pursuance</a>, an ambitious project intended to amplify the efforts of activists, journalists, and non-profits around the world, and that was started by formerly-imprisoned journalist and activist <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="https://twitter.com/BarrettBrown_" href="https://twitter.com/BarrettBrown_" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">Barrett Brown</a>.  About half of all CWC participants are working on Pursuance (which I am the project manager and lead developer of), and I deeply appreciate all of your efforts!</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">Task management and chat work great, and we are working on polishing things up to start using internally within the next couple weeks.  <i><b>If any of you would like to be one of the first to try out Pursuance and give us your feedback to help make this project as awesome as possible for the world's activists, journalists, and non-profits</b></i>, let me know either in person or via email (<a href="mailto:steve@tryingtobeawesome.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="background-color:transparent">steve@tryingtobeawesome.com</a>).  <i>Tech stack: React + Go + Postgres + </i><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="https://tryingtobeawesome.com/postgrest/" href="https://tryingtobeawesome.com/postgrest/" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent"><i>PostgREST</i></a><i> + Bootstrap + WebSockets.</i><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">With Pursuance, we aim to confront and correct, via an energetic, global network of forward-thinking individuals, the injustices imposed on society by criminalized institutions the world over.<br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span class="gmail-size" style="font-size:18px">Event Details</span></span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">- 4pm - 10pm: <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="https://www.meetup.com/Cypherpunks-Write-Code/events/245596022/" href="https://www.meetup.com/Cypherpunks-Write-Code/events/245596022/" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">Privacy hackathon this Saturday</a> (and pretty much every Saturday!) at <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2169+Mission+St.%2C+San+Francisco%2C+CA%2C+us" href="https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2169+Mission+St.%2C+San+Francisco%2C+CA%2C+us" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">Noisebridge</a> (come and go whenever you'd like)<br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">- 5pm: Aaron Swartz Day Project Updates with Special Guest Lisa Rein<br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">- More information about this event is in this epic blog post that Lisa just posted: <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="https://www.aaronswartzday.org/hackathon-and-pursuance-party/" href="https://www.aaronswartzday.org/hackathon-and-pursuance-party/" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">This Saturday: Aaron Swartz Day Reunion Hackathon and Pursuance Party</a><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">- Email <a href="http://lisa-at-lisarein.com">lisa-at-lisarein.com</a> with your project update info, and she will include it on the above page :-)<br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">Exciting times :-D.  See you all there!<br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">--Steve (Phillips)</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font color="#000000">Project Manager and Lead Developer of Pursuance</font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="1"><font face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://keybase.io/elimisteve">keybase.io/elimisteve</a></font><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://tryingtobeawesome.com/contact/"><font size="1">tryingtobeawesome.com/contact</font></a><br></font></font></div></div>