[okfn-discuss] How to honor Aaron Swartz

Kẏra kxra at freeculture.org
Mon Jan 28 16:58:50 UTC 2013


It's definitely within the scope of the project. I've stumbled upon a
couple of summaries recently, but a lot of expansion should happen to
organize and make this a better effort.

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Reading_log_McRuer,_Tatum,_Hj%C3%B6rne_%26_S%C3%A4lj%C3%B6
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/McCall,_Leslie_%282005%29:_The_complexity_of_intersectionality._Signs:_Journal_of_Women_in_Culture_and_Society._Volume_3_%283%29_s._1771-1800


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Finn Årup Nielsen <fn at imm.dtu.dk> wrote:

>
>
> "AcaWiki and Wikiversity for collaborative summaries of and notes
> on books and academic papers"
>
> Are Wikiversity used for summaries? I have never seen Wikimedia Foundation
> projects used for summaries and that was the reason I started my own wiki -
> Brede Wiki <http://neuro.imm.dtu.dk/wiki/**>.
>
> I think it would be a good idea if there was a WMF CC BY-SA site for
> summaries and research data, especially now since we are getting Wikidata
> that could store structured research data.
>
>
> Finn Årup Nielsen
>
>
>
> On 01/28/2013 03:05 PM, Kẏra wrote:
>
>> I wonder if there's a way we could promote libre knowledge (which is
>> freely licensed and in free formats) over individuals just posting links
>> to their work.
>>
>> "Posting our PDFs is all fine and good, but the real way to honor Aaron
>> Swartz is to combat this pervasive institutional fecklessness and do
>> everything in our power to make sure no papers ever end up behind pay
>> walls again."
>>
>>>> http://blogs.berkeley.edu/**2013/01/25/how-academia-**
>> betrayed-and-continues-to-**betray-aaron-swartz/<http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/01/25/how-academia-betrayed-and-continues-to-betray-aaron-swartz/>
>>
>> How can we promote
>>   * Public Library of Science <https://www.plos.org/>, BioMed Central
>> <https://www.biomedcentral.**com/ <https://www.biomedcentral.com/>>, and
>> other freely licensed academic
>> journals
>>   * AcaWiki <http://acawiki.org/> and Wikiversity
>> <https://en.wikiversity.org/> for collaborative summaries of and notes
>>
>> on books and academic papers
>>   * Connexions <http://cnx.org/> and Wikibooks
>> <https://en.wikibooks.org/> as collaborative course materials and
>> textbooks
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Students for Free Culture
>> <webleader+rss-bot@**freeculture.org<webleader%2Brss-bot at freeculture.org>
>> <mailto:webleader+rss-bot@**freeculture.org<webleader%2Brss-bot at freeculture.org>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     _Rarely does the name of one person, lacking political office or seat
>> of
>>     power, echo across the internet so thoroughly as it did in the wake of
>>     [Aaron Swartz's death][1]. How was the work of one person revered by
>> so
>>     many, from the front page of every major paper in the US, to radical
>>     communities working against various axis of oppression?_
>>
>>     **Aaron Swartz recognized something. In his own words, "Information is
>>     power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for
>>     themselves." —[Guerilla Open Access Manifesto][2]**
>>
>>     [![Aaron Swartz][3]][3]
>>
>>     Based on an image by [Jacob Applebaum][4] via [Wikimedia][5].
>> [CC-BY-SA
>>     3.0][6]
>>
>>     Many of us have spent time grieving together on message boards, email
>>     lists, and with friends. While we mourned the loss of a brilliant hero
>>     to a [broken and backwards criminal justice system][7], an outpouring
>> of
>>     support for his work roared to life. Almost overnight, recognition of
>>     the importance of his mission spread across every corner of the web.
>>     What now?
>>
>>     Aaron understood that the way we experience and interact with the
>> world
>>     is [inseparable from the media and technology around us][8]. He knew
>>     that only when they are [free from private ownership][9] can we hope
>> to
>>     harness their liberatory potential and gain control over our own
>> lives.
>>     He has been an invaluable force in the free software and free culture
>>     movements, working against the privatization of information, culture,
>>     and knowledge.
>>
>>     Aaron fought to tear down the walls that hide big secrets and lock up
>>     human knowledge for the profit of the gatekeepers. The pressures which
>>     drove him to suicide — up to 50 years in prison and $4 million in
>> fines
>>     — were brought against him for a victimless crime. These egregiously
>>     harsh punishments for [releasing public domain papers][10] locked up
>> on
>>     JSTOR may have been due to Aaron's support of [ Private Breanna
>>     Manning][11] and [ties to Wikileaks][12]. Either way, Aaron should
>> have
>>     been rewarded.
>>
>>     There is already far too much fear in resisting the powers that Aaron
>>     stood up against. **We can only carry on his fight by turning this
>> fear
>>     into indignation, and indignation into action, just as he did.**
>>
>>     In efforts to carry on his work, [global hackathons][13] have been
>>     planned in his memory; a graduate student made [a commitment to free
>>     knowledge][14] by boycotting locked-down journals; the [Memorial JSTOR
>>     Liberator][15] continues the task of releasing public domain documents
>>     by crowdsourcing; [#PDFTribute][16] was started [for authors of
>> academic
>>     papers to share their works][17]; and Anonymous defaced the United
>>     States Sentencing Commission website with [a video][18] threatening a
>>     massive exposure of government secrets  in the style of WikiLeaks'
>>     [insurance][19] [files][20].
>>
>>     While individual efforts are admirable, Aaron's work involved much
>> [more
>>     than opting out][21] of the systems he recognized as broken. He
>> targeted
>>     them. He aimed to uproot them. **Everything Aaron wrote, whether
>>     vernacular or code, was free, but what he died doing was freeing the
>>     work of others.**
>>
>>     There are already plenty of places to publish and share [free cultural
>>     works][22], but this is only half of the battle. The remaining
>> question
>>     is how to usurp proprietary knowledge sources. The answer, then, is to
>>     eliminate their value by taking the knowledge they amass and release
>> it
>>     into the world. **Our own rejection of locking up knowledge should be
>>     taken for granted.** **To continue Aaron's work, we must create an
>>     organized movement to take down the gatekeepers which keep hoards of
>>     information secret and lock our cultural productions behind their
>>     walls.**
>>
>>         [1]: http://www.rememberaaronsw.**com/statements/family.html<http://www.rememberaaronsw.com/statements/family.html>
>>
>>         [2]:
>>     http://archive.org/stream/**GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/**Goamjuly20<http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly20>
>>     08_djvu.txt
>>     <http://archive.org/stream/**GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/**
>> Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt<http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt>
>> >
>>
>>
>>         [3]: http://freeculture.org/files/**2013/01/Aaron_Swartz.jpg<http://freeculture.org/files/2013/01/Aaron_Swartz.jpg>
>>
>>         [4]: https://secure.flickr.com/**photos/44289662@N00/335161549<https://secure.flickr.com/photos/44289662@N00/335161549>
>>
>>         [5]:
>>     https://commons.wikimedia.org/**wiki/File:Aaron_Swartz_23c3_**
>> day_0.jpg<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_Swartz_23c3_day_0.jpg>
>>
>>         [6]: https://creativecommons.org/**licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/>
>>
>>         [7]: http://www.rememberaaronsw.**com/memories/the-inspiring-**
>> heroism- <http://www.rememberaaronsw.com/memories/the-inspiring-heroism->
>>     of-Aaron-Swartz.html
>>     <http://www.rememberaaronsw.**com/memories/the-inspiring-**
>> heroism-of-Aaron-Swartz.html<http://www.rememberaaronsw.com/memories/the-inspiring-heroism-of-Aaron-Swartz.html>
>> >
>>
>>         [8]: http://thesocietypages.org/**cyborgology/2011/09/13/**
>> digital- <http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/09/13/digital->
>>     dualism-and-the-fallacy-of-**web-objectivity/
>>     <http://thesocietypages.org/**cyborgology/2011/09/13/**
>> digital-dualism-and-the-**fallacy-of-web-objectivity/<http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/09/13/digital-dualism-and-the-fallacy-of-web-objectivity/>
>> >
>>
>>         [9]: http://thesocietypages.org/**cyborgology/2012/09/07/who-**
>> fights- <http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/07/who-fights->
>>     for-the-users/
>>     <http://thesocietypages.org/**cyborgology/2012/09/07/who-**
>> fights-for-the-users/<http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/07/who-fights-for-the-users/>
>> >
>>
>>
>>         [10]: https://thepiratebay.se/**torrent/6554331<https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6554331>
>>
>>         [11]: http://feministing.com/2011/**12/22/why-does-the-media-and-
>> **her- <http://feministing.com/2011/12/22/why-does-the-media-and-her->
>>     supposed-supporters-continue-**to-misgender-breanna-manning/
>>     <http://feministing.com/2011/**12/22/why-does-the-media-and-**
>> her-supposed-supporters-**continue-to-misgender-breanna-**manning/<http://feministing.com/2011/12/22/why-does-the-media-and-her-supposed-supporters-continue-to-misgender-breanna-manning/>
>> >
>>
>>
>>         [12]: https://www.techdirt.com/**articles/20130122/18260621757<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130122/18260621757>
>>     /concerns-raised-about-aaron-**swartzs-prosecution-wikileaks-
>>     connection.shtml
>>
>>         [13]: https://www.techdirt.com/**articles/20130121/14473121743/**
>> global- <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130121/14473121743/global->
>>     hackathons-prepared-to-carry-**forward-work-aaron-swartz.**shtml
>>     <https://www.techdirt.com/**articles/20130121/14473121743/**
>> global-hackathons-prepared-to-**carry-forward-work-aaron-**swartz.shtml<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130121/14473121743/global-hackathons-prepared-to-carry-forward-work-aaron-swartz.shtml>
>> >
>>
>>
>>         [14]: http://alexleavitt.com/oa/
>>
>>         [15]: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.**org/<http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/>
>>
>>         [16]: http://pdftribute.net/
>>
>>         [17]: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/**0,2817,2414241,00.asp<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414241,00.asp>
>>
>>         [18]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=WaPni5O2YyI<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaPni5O2YyI>
>>
>>         [19]: http://www.wired.com/**threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-**
>> insurance-<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-insurance->
>>     file/
>>     <http://www.wired.com/**threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-**
>> insurance-file/<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-insurance-file/>
>> >
>>
>>         [20]: http://www.dailykos.com/story/**
>> 2012/02/23/1067565/-WikiLeaks-<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/23/1067565/-WikiLeaks->
>>     new-65-GB-Insurance-file-**following-Spy-Files-release
>>     <http://www.dailykos.com/**story/2012/02/23/1067565/-**
>> WikiLeaks-new-65-GB-Insurance-**file-following-Spy-Files-**release<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/23/1067565/-WikiLeaks-new-65-GB-Insurance-file-following-Spy-Files-release>
>> >
>>
>>         [21]:
>>     http://blogs.berkeley.edu/**2013/01/25/how-academia-**betrayed-and-<http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/01/25/how-academia-betrayed-and->
>>     continues-to-betray-aaron-**swartz/
>>     <http://blogs.berkeley.edu/**2013/01/25/how-academia-**
>> betrayed-and-continues-to-**betray-aaron-swartz/<http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/01/25/how-academia-betrayed-and-continues-to-betray-aaron-swartz/>
>> >
>>
>>
>>         [22]: http://freedomdefined.org/
>>
>>     URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/**2013/01/27/how-to-honor-aaron-**
>> swartz/<http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/01/27/how-to-honor-aaron-swartz/>
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