7 Dec
2017
7 Dec
'17
5:09 p.m.
Greetings privacy hackers, Noisebridgers, and Sudo Roomers,
At this Saturday privacy hackathon we have a number of special things
happening!
Lisa Rein + New Projects
Firstly, we have a special guest, Lisa Rein (Co-Founder, Creative Commons &
Aaron Swartz Day, Chelsea Manning's Archivist), who will be speaking
briefly at 5pm. She will be announcing the continuation of Aaron Swartz
Day projects through Cypherpunks Write Code(!!), and *introducing 2 new,
awesome projects she would love our help with*. One is an RSS Revival
Project <https://www.aaronswartzday.org/rss-news-reader-revival/> (which
has both research and development components). The other is a Metadata Blow
Out Tool <https://www.aaronswartzday.org/metadata-blowout-tool/> 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 *real* fake news or defending user
privacy, you will want to check them out! *Tech stack: TBD.*
Hackers of the World -- Unite!
Secondly, we are calling out to all the international privacy hackers who
were following remotely, watching the webcast online, and generally
following our Aaron Swartz Day <https://www.aaronswartzday.org/> developments
(where I spoke about Pursuance not-1-not-2-but-3 times this year!)
If you would like to participate in Pursuance User Testing remotely, one
way you could do it would be to register on Pursuance's Mattermost chat
server <https://bit.ly/cwc-mminvite>, 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. So that's 4pm-10pm PST - on Saturday December
9th.
Pursuance
Thirdly, we are officially beginning user testing of Pursuance
<https://pursuanceproject.org/>, 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 Barrett
Brown <https://twitter.com/BarrettBrown_>. 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!
Task management and chat work great, and we are working on polishing things
up to start using internally within the next couple weeks. *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*, let me know either in person or
via email (steve(a)tryingtobeawesome.com). *Tech stack: React + Go +
Postgres + **PostgREST* <https://tryingtobeawesome.com/postgrest/>* +
Bootstrap + WebSockets.*
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.
Event Details
- 4pm - 10pm: Privacy hackathon this Saturday
<https://www.meetup.com/Cypherpunks-Write-Code/events/245596022/> (and
pretty much every Saturday!) at Noisebridge
<https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2169+Mission+St.%2C+San+Francisco%2C+CA%2C+us>
(come
and go whenever you'd like)
- 5pm: Aaron Swartz Day Project Updates with Special Guest Lisa Rein
- More information about this event is in this epic blog post that Lisa
just posted: This Saturday: Aaron Swartz Day Reunion Hackathon and
Pursuance Party
<https://www.aaronswartzday.org/hackathon-and-pursuance-party/>
- Email lisa-at-lisarein.com with your project update info, and she will
include it on the above page :-)
Exciting times :-D. See you all there!
--Steve (Phillips)
Project Manager and Lead Developer of Pursuance
keybase.io/elimisteve
tryingtobeawesome.com/contact