Aaron Swartz Day 2015

Garrett Robinson at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

presented by Garrett Robinson

The thing about SecureDrop […] is that it’s changed a lot in the past two years. But what I realized was that the core design, the core architecture, is almost completely unchanged from what Aaron created and called DeadDrop over 2 years ago today.

Brewster Kahle at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

presented by Brewster Kahle

I’d suggest it’s time to fix the World Wide Web […] and I’m going to suggest the way to do this is by building a distributed Web. This is a call to build a distributed Web, to lock the Web open.

Cindy Cohn at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

presented by Cindy Cohn

We’ve got an inflection point opportunity here and we ought to be talking about this European Court of Justice opinion and what it means, because what the European Court of Justice said is the NSA surveillance is not appropriate.

Jacob Appelbaum at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

presented by Jacob Appelbaum

Let’s not only liberate the documents of the world, let us act in solidarity to liberate all of humanity. Let us create infrastructure that resists mass surveillance. Let us enable people to leak documents. And let us also work to infiltrate those organizations that betrayed us.

Roger Dingledine at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

presented by Roger Dingledine

I was thinking back about all the various memories of Aaron, and I wanted to share three of them with you. Two of them fun and cheerful, and one of them a little bit less fun and cheerful.

Micah Lee at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

presented by Micah Lee

When I was thinking about what I would talk about last night, I was reading more about Aaron. Unfortunately, I never got to meet him before he died, but I realized that he passed away on January 11, 2013, and that was actually the same day that I first heard from Edward Snowden.

Alison Macrina at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

presented by Alison Macrina

The whole Library Freedom Project, everything that we do is very deeply inspired by Aaron’s spirit, his work in resistance, his legacy. And every day that we go into libraries and teach practical privacy trainings, I feel like Aaron is very much present in all that we do.

“The Human Element”; Chelsea Manning for Aaron Swartz Day 2015

presented by Chelsea Manning, Lisa Rein

Consider the paradox that technology has provided for us. We seem more diverse and open as a society, but isn’t it also the case that we are more homogeneous and insecure than we ever have been in the last century or so?

Giovanni Damiola at Aaron Swartz Day 2015

presented by Giovanni Damiola

Tonight I am very happy to say that Open Library is healthy, with more than 9 million visitors every month, serving and reaching the metadata of more than 25 million editions, 6 million authors, and we even serve 7 million covers through an API.