Hello,
MozFest is a unique hybrid: part art, tech and society convening, part
maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global
movements fighting for a more humane digital world.
That’s why I’m excited to invite you
<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>and your community
to participate in the first-ever virtual MozFest!
Submit A Session Idea for MozFest This Year
<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>
I am on the openness space and we're particularly looking forward for open
science projects. We’re excited to use the programming that we’ve honed
over a decade of festivals – participant-led sessions, immersive art
exhibits, space for spontaneous conversations, inspiring Dialogues &
Debates – to address current and global crises.
Through our Call for Session Proposals (where you're invited to propose an
interactive workshop to host at the festival), we’ll seek solutions
together, through the lens of trustworthy artificial intelligence.
Anyone can submit a session – you don’t need any particular expertise, just
a great project or idea and the desire to collaborate and learn from
festival participants. Since it’s online this year, we’re especially eager
to see session proposals from those that haven’t been able to attend in
year’s past due to travel restrictions.
If you or someone you know is interested in leading a session at MozFest
this year, you can submit your session idea here
<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>! The
deadline is *November
23*.
Best regards,
Ahmed Medien
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours on Tuesday, 2020-11-03 at 17:00-18:00 PM UTC (9am PT/6pm CET).
To participate, join the video-call via this Wikimedia-meet link [2]. There
is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the
etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise
you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g.
about how to attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:
-
You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
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You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
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You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Martin (WMF Research Team)
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
[2] https://meet.wmcloud.org/ResearchOfficeHours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
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Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hey everyone
We have two open positions in the P2P Models <http://p2pmodels.eu/>
interdisciplinary
research project in Madrid, around building *decentralized governance
infrastructure* for *collaborative communities*. I'd greatly appreciate it
if you could spread the word.
One position is for doing a *PhD *fully funded, and another for a *postdoc *
researcher.
*Topics*: Decentralized Governance, Algorithmic Governance, P2P Tech,
Blockchain-based
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Commons-oriented Collaborative
Economy, Intersectional Feminism in Tech, Token Economics, Inequality in
Online Communities.
*Tweet *thread:
https://twitter.com/samerP2P/status/1321855078790213634
PhD in CS job offer:
https://p2pmodels.eu/phdincomputerscience/
Postdoc in CS job offer:
https://p2pmodels.eu/postdoctoralincomputerscience/
More info:
https://p2pmodels.eu/jobs/
I'll be happy to answer any questions.
Thanks a lot
Samer Hassan | @samerP2P <https://twitter.com/samerP2P> |
https://samer.hassan.name | P2P Models <https://p2pmodels.eu/>
Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center <https://cyber.harvard.edu/> |
Harvard University
Associate Professor (Profesor Titular) | Univ. Complutense de Madrid