[Wiki-research-l] Deadline Extension for Opensym 2017 [was "CFP International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2017)"]

2017-04-04 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
Greetings friends! The deadline for OpenSym 2017 has been extended by two weeks! It's now April 21st. Please consider submitting something! Lots of details are here: http://opensym.lero.ie/cfp/ Later, Mako > Greetings Wikimedia Researchers! > > It looks like nobody forwarded this year

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Digital engagement / digital volunteer work

2017-04-04 Thread Jan Dittrich
Hi Julian, A resource I found generally useful as entry point to academic research in the field is Building Successful Online Communities (Kraut, Resnick). I am aware of some successful citizen science like GalaxyZoo where people can help to classify photos of galaxies and there are also some

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Digital engagement / digital volunteer work

2017-04-04 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Hi Julian, one open question I would like to see addressed is how the digital and on-the-ground responses to emergency situations (think earthquakes, floods, disease outbreaks, war etc.) can be coordinated more efficiently. Those responses are by no means limited to volunteers, but frequently

[Wiki-research-l] Digital engagement / digital volunteer work

2017-04-04 Thread Julian Fischer
Hi all, Wikimedia Deutschland is planning a workshop (June 23, 2017) on digital engagement / digital volunteer work. The aim of the workshop is to identify with other stakeholders ("classic" NGOs, Free- and Open-Movement, Volunteers, state authorities) open questions on digital engagement /

[Wiki-research-l] Call for Workshops - 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - Deadline: April 17th, 2017

2017-04-04 Thread Serge Autexier
Call for Workshop Proposals 10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2017 - July 17-21, 2017 University of Edinburgh, Scotland