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 <arrust@gmail.com> 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

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