[Inpycon] Screening of "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" during PyCon India 2014

[Shrayas rajagopal]

I also think this is a great idea if we can make time.

Post talks on Day 1 makes sense. It isn't too late as well and those who
want to stay to watch are more than welcome.

+1 from my side


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Vignesh Prabhu <lists at viggy.in> wrote:
>
>> Hi friends,
>>
>> This is Vignesh Prabhu and I am a volunteer at Free Software Movement
>> Karnataka(FSMK). FSMK recently conducted a 9 days Summer Camp on Free
>> Software Technologies which was participated by 183 participants and 30
>> volunteers. As part of the camp, we had a screening of the movie, The
>> Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz followed by a discussion
>> with Lawrence Liang from Alternative Law Forum. The screening was
>> received very well by participants and there were quite a good number of
>> questions and opinions from participants. The movie is very well made to
>> make the general public understand the whole circumstances which lead
>> Aaron to commit suicide. I was wondering if there is any chance for
>> PyCon India 2014 to make a similar screening for its
>> participants/general public whichever it seems fit and possible in the
>> evening on the day of conference. Apart from Aaron's connection to
>> Python through many projects, web.py being one of the popular ones, I
>> think one of the main reason why PyCon India needs to do the screening
>> is that it is one of the premier conference which brings in good mix of
>> people from various interests and backgrounds to Bangalore and hence
>> very good place to inform people about the story of Aaron Swartz.
>> Currently I dont think there is any other conference like PyCon India
>> which is organized in Bangalore which would be suitable for such
>> screening, especially since FOSS.IN is no longer being organized.
>> Another reason is that it would be very difficult for anyone to organize
>> similar screening in as good venue as Nimhans Convention Hall which has
>> a very good seating capacity and can accommodate large crowd.
>> Hope the community will consider the request and will make it possible
>> so that ideas of Aaron Swartz and his story reaches and inspires many
>> more people.
>>
>
> I think it is very good idea. I'm sure there will be lot of interest about
> this in the Python Community.
>
> The duration of the movie is one hour 45 minutes, so we need close to 2
> hours for screening this movie. The only possible time to this is after the
> talks on first day of the conference (saturday), that is 5:30PM to 7:30PM.
>
> Everyone else, what do you think?
>
> Anand
>
>
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