Aaron Swartz 的纪念页面

Aaron Swartz

A Greate Fighter For Freedom.

He is the founder of Demand Progress, which launched the campaign against the Internet censorship bills (SOPA/PIPA) and now has over a million members. He is also a Contributing Editor to The Baffler and on the Council of Advisors to The Rules.

He was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS and the Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py, and the social news site Reddit, in which he became a partner after its merger with his company, Infogami.

He had contribution his whole life-time to the internet, to the crucial freedom.

Here is a profile for Aaron Swartz:

• In 1986, Swartz born in Highland Park, Illinois.
• In 2004, He authored RFC 3870, and significant collaboration John Gruber to created the Markdown language on syntax.
• In 2006, Swartz volunteered as an editor at Wikipedia.
• In 2006, Swartz acquired the Library of Congress’s complete bibliographic dataset. By posting the data on OpenLibrary, Swartz made it freely available.
• In 2008, Swartz downloaded about 2.7 million federal court documents stored in the PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) database managed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
• In 2008, Swartz worked with Virgil Griffith to design and implement Tor2web.
• On December 27, 2010, Swartz filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to learn about the treatment of Chelsea Manning, alleged source for WikiLeaks.
• In late 2010 and early 2011, Swartz used JSTOR to download a large number of academic journal articles through MIT’s computer network over the course.
• On the night of January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested near the Harvard campus by MIT police and a U.S. Secret Service agent.
• In 2011–2012, Swartz and Kevin Poulsen designed and implemented DeadDrop.
• In 2011-2012, Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of almost 13 federal crimes.
• In 2012, His speech was titled “How We Stopped SOPA“.
• On the evening of January 11, 2013, Swartz was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment by his partner.

You literally ought to be asking yourself all the time what is the most important thing in the world I could be working on right now, and if you are not working on that why are’nt you?
– Aaron Swartz.

For more details, you can see the wiki page.