+1 to what Alex said. I won't be able to make it--noon on a Tuesday, really
harvard? :)--but anyone who can swing it and is interested in grokking
Wikipedia ought to go.
-Adam
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Alex Stinson <sadads(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Aaron is a really inspiring speaker! I would highly
recommend meeting him
if you can get a chance: he understands (and can articulate) very well how
technology and social activities intersect in Wikimedia projects to create
amazing impacts.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Amanda Rust <arrust(a)gmail.com> wrote:
New England Wikimedians may be interested in this
upcoming talk at the
Berkman Center in Cambridge. It will also be livestreamed for those (like
myself) that can't make it.
Amanda / User:AmandaRR123
*2/2 - Engineering Open Production Efficiency at Scale*
*12:00pm, Berkman Center for Internet & Society *
Wikipedia, largely used as a synecdoche for open production generally, is
a large, complex, distributed system that needs to solve a set of "open
problems" efficiently in order to thrive. In this talk, computer scientist
Aaron Halfaker uses the metaphor of biology as a "living system" to discuss
the relationship between subsystem efficiency and the overall health of
Wikipedia.
https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2016/02/Halfaker
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