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

[Vignesh Prabhu]

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.

Regards,

Vignesh Prabhu



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