Am 27.09.15 um 23:09 schrieb Florian Cramer:
WWII. As far as I know, all profits that the state of Lower Saxony
makes from its remaining 20% share go into the endowment. And, Leuphana
is a state university of Lower Saxony.
(marginalia)
folks, i think this is besides the point, but before assumptions about
the amounts of funding by the VolkswagenStiftung to Leuphana and its
Centre for Digital Cultures get completely out of hand, i suggest that
whoever wants to make claims about that should first do the research,
e.g. here:
https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/funding-statistics.html
... probably to find that less than 20% (just a guess) of the funding
for the CDC in the last 3 years (it has not existed longer) came from
VolkswagenStiftung (more from EU-EFRE, same from DFG; besides, formally,
Leuphana is also not a state university but a foundation, but since it
is basically treated like a public university, that's probably a
legalistic detail).
the german mass media are playing the game of "who knew what when" this
morning.
personally, i am looking at the case mostly from the perspective of my
small collection of software-induced fuck-ups, accidents, frauds, etc.,
which begin to pile up into a relief picture of the vulnerability of
both the technical and social (belief) systems that our glorious
"digitised culture" is relying on.
regards,
-a
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