Do you know how to get on the DERP mailing list?
It looks like inquire(a)derp.institute is the right place to ask.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Ed Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> There were other reasons we decided to be a little more cautious about
> committing to this kind of initiative. As Toby Negrin pointed out recently: There
> is one major difference between the companies involved in DERP and
> ourselves -- they all use data collected from their users to make money and
> we explicitly do not. This is frankly a point of pride for many members of
> the foundation and certainly the community.
>
>
> Wikimedia is a nonprofit, but that doesn't mean it can't bring in money
> based on data collected from its users. I think we all know that this is
> exactly what it does. As a non-profit WMF is just prevented from making a
> profit, right?
>
> More pragmatically, the last week of organizing for the DERP launch just
> happened too fast for us (and happened during Wikimania, to boot!). Those
> of us in research-y roles hadn't had a chance to discuss all the evolving
> details as a team, and on the eve of the launch we didn't all feel we had a
> 100% clear idea of what commitments we would be making by joining.
>
>
> Ok, this is much more plausible. I'm new to the idea of DERP, but based on
> what Stuart just wrote it does sound like a useful effort to be a part of.
>
> But we're still on the DERP mailing list, and (if the review gods are
> merciful) we plan to co-organize a CSCW workshop with Tim Hwang and Max
> Goodman at CSCW 2015.
>
Do you know how to get on the DERP mailing list?
>
> //Ed
>
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