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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-boston mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston > >
_______________________________________________ Wikimedia-boston mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston
