Next meeting – July 9th, 2013

July 9th, 2013 Regular MUG Meeting

We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library.

DOOR PRIZE: We will be giving away one Raspberry Pi computer to one lucky participant. The contest is open to current paid-up members, and you must be present to win.

Planned topics include:

Benjamin Mako Hill (Wikipedia, remixing content, and learning from past failures to improve online communities)

Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist, technologist, and activist. In all three roles, he works to understand why, and when, peer production succeeds. He is a PhD Candidate in a joint program between the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Media Lab and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. In September 2013, he will join the faculty of the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. His research aims to explain why some attempts to create free culture and free software result in large volunteer communities like Wikipedia and Linux — while the vast majority never attract even a second contributor. He has also been an leader, developer, and contributor to the Free and Open Source Software community for more than a decade as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects. He is the author of several best-selling technical books, a member of the Free Software Foundation board of directors and an advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation. Hill has a Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab.

Join us for Benjamin Mako Hill’s talk on Wikipedia and remixing content, and how we can learn from past failures to improve online communities. Mako is a very dynamic and engaging speaker. He’€™ll entertain and educate on the topic of peer production, where content is produced by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field.

Command of the Moment

If we still have some time, we’ll jump back into our continuing series: Command of the Moment. We’ll pick some UNIX commands at random and ask folks to take 5-10 minutes to discuss them. A list of the commands we’ll be picking from is available here.

And of course we’ll have some of the other great features you’ve come to enjoy at our meetings, including current events and Job/People seekers.

Hope to see you there!