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!
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> It looks like nobody forwarded this year
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
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
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 /
Call for Workshop Proposals
10th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2017 -
July 17-21, 2017
University of Edinburgh, Scotland