+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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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 > > -- Adam Hyland Data Hacker
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