[Noisebridge-discuss] Aaron Swartz Noisebridge Memorial

Shannon Lee shannon at scatter.com
Mon Jan 14 22:09:04 UTC 2013


I will; I'm considering the date & time "soft set" until the end of today,
and then I'm going to start publicizing it if nothing turns out to be
terribly wrong.  I'm getting some help with copy for the announcement, do
you have any ideas as to distribution media?

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:

> I'm going to be in New York on the 24th, I think there will be a memorial
> there too. If you hear any news of it, please pass it onto me.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com> wrote:
>
>> All right.
>>
>> I just got off the phone with June at the Internet Archive; there's going
>> to be a memorial there at 8:00 on Thursday, January 24th, with a reception
>> preceding starting at 7:00.
>>
>> I've got some volunteers to help with the stage-tech stuff; there has
>> been talk of live-streaming this, so if anybody wants to take that on, we
>> could use help with that.
>>
>> The format I had planned was a simple greeting, followed by some prepared
>> speakers interspersed with an open mic for people to share their memories
>> of Aaron.
>>
>> If anyone wants to help out in any way, get hold of me; I'm going to be
>> setting up an ad-hoc mailing list for organizing by end of day.
>>
>> There's also talk of a Nosiebridge-specific hackathon event; I think this
>> is a fantastic idea and I'd be overjoyed to be involved.  I'll be at the
>> meeting Tuesday to discuss all of this.
>>
>> --S
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The memorials in New York and Boston will be a week later, starting
>>> Wednesday the 23rd; how about next Thursday, the 24th?
>>>
>>> --S
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Noisebridge,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aaron was a friend of mine and a friend of Noisebridge.  I think we
>>>>>> should hold a memorial for him in SF.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> His funeral is on Tuesday in Chicago; memorial services are being
>>>>>> planned in New York and Boston as well, so we should coordinate with those.
>>>>>>  Anybody who'd like to lend a hand in planning it, let me know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Ada and I are going to fly out to his funeral on Tuesday.
>>>>>
>>>>> Five minutes of Fame is this Thursday -- we could have a rememberance
>>>>> service for Aaron instead. I don't really feel particularly entertaining
>>>>> right now. Alternatively, we were also going to have a techno-activism
>>>>> meeting next Monday, and I know that everyone who might come to that is
>>>>> thinking of Aaron right now.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Oh, I forgot to say. Ada and Aaron were very close, and she suggested
>>>> that our family do a memories board for him. I might well bring it to
>>>> Noisebridge so that we can all leave a memory. I know he had a big impact
>>>> on many of us.
>>>>
>>>> d.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> d.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> --S
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Shannon Lee
>>>>>> (503) 539-3700
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Shannon Lee
>>> (503) 539-3700
>>>
>>> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shannon Lee
>> (503) 539-3700
>>
>> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
>>
>
>


-- 
Shannon Lee
(503) 539-3700

"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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