Following Daniel Mietchen's suggestion, I've moved the notes from the
Etherpad here. If you haven't yet expressed areas of interest, I think
it would be good to do so (and feel free to expand the list):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee/Areas_of_interest
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Erik Möller
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