Durante todo el día de ayer, infinidad de académicos e investigadores subieron sus papers libres a la red en formato pdf y lo anunciaron en Twitter con el hashtag #PDFtribute como homenaje a Aaron Swartz, el joven hacker y activista de 26 años que se quitó la vida el pasado viernes en Nueva York.
Aaron Swartz wrote this blog post (sometime around early 2000s) describing what should be done with website, code etc in event of his death. It is sad to read this now.
There's an old joke among programmers about who will maintain the code when its author gets hit by a truck. This page is here so that if for some reason I'm no longer able to keep my web services running, people will know what to do.
I designate Sean B. Palmer as my virtual executor to organize such things. (And if you delete anything, Sean, I will haunt you from the grave!)
I ask that the contents of all my hard drives be made publicly available from Aaron Swartz.
web.resourse.or g
Sean (or someone he designates) should become the new curator/webmaster. Please continue updating the site and mirror list and ensuring the persistence of its URIs. (This means that nothing controvertial or illegal should be included. Save those for cryptome.)
Source Code
Copyright for my GPLed source code should revert to the Free Software Foundation. They seem to have a reasonable policy about letting people use the code.
Websites
Please keep the websites operational where possible, with content written by me kept untouched where appropriate. Appropriate pages (e.g. on Aaron Swartz) may contain a notice about what happened with a link to more info. The front page of Aaron Swartz should be redone as appropriate with a link to the old page.
Grave
I'd like to rest someplace that won't kill me. That means access to oxygen (although direct access would probably be bad) and not having to climb through six feet of dirt.
For other stuff, email Sean. I'm sure he'll do something reasonable.
If something does happen to me, please update the footer of this page with a link. Also email the relevant lists and set up an autoresponder for my email address to email people who write to me. Feel free to publish things people say about me on the site. These are probably all obvious and I'm sure you'll figure it out.
Oh, and BTW, I'll miss you all.
[based on ESR's page]
Aaron Swartz (me@aaronsw.com)
I'm not dead yet!
Source: If I get hit by a truck... (It is topmost comment on official Reddit thread about his death)
Comentarios
Aaron Swartz wrote this blog post (sometime around early 2000s) describing what should be done with website, code etc in event of his death. It is sad to read this now.
There's an old joke among programmers about who will maintain the code when its author gets hit by a truck. This page is here so that if for some reason I'm no longer able to keep my web services running, people will know what to do.
I designate Sean B. Palmer as my virtual executor to organize such things. (And if you delete anything, Sean, I will haunt you from the grave!)
I ask that the contents of all my hard drives be made publicly available from Aaron Swartz.
web.resourse.or g
Sean (or someone he designates) should become the new curator/webmaster. Please continue updating the site and mirror list and ensuring the persistence of its URIs. (This means that nothing controvertial or illegal should be included. Save those for cryptome.)
Source Code
Copyright for my GPLed source code should revert to the Free Software Foundation. They seem to have a reasonable policy about letting people use the code.
Websites
Please keep the websites operational where possible, with content written by me kept untouched where appropriate. Appropriate pages (e.g. on Aaron Swartz) may contain a notice about what happened with a link to more info. The front page of Aaron Swartz should be redone as appropriate with a link to the old page.
Grave
I'd like to rest someplace that won't kill me. That means access to oxygen (although direct access would probably be bad) and not having to climb through six feet of dirt.
For other stuff, email Sean. I'm sure he'll do something reasonable.
If something does happen to me, please update the footer of this page with a link. Also email the relevant lists and set up an autoresponder for my email address to email people who write to me. Feel free to publish things people say about me on the site. These are probably all obvious and I'm sure you'll figure it out.
Oh, and BTW, I'll miss you all.
[based on ESR's page]
Aaron Swartz (me@aaronsw.com)
I'm not dead yet!
Source: If I get hit by a truck... (It is topmost comment on official Reddit thread about his death)