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