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"Paul Henry Ginsparg (born 1955) is a physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv.org e-print archive[2][3][4] and for contributions to theoretical physics." He has been awarded the P.A.M. (Physics-Astronomy-Math) Award from the Special Libraries Association,[13] named a Lingua Franca "Tech 20"

The GNU Project i/ɡnuː/[3] is a free software, mass collaboration project, announced on 27 September 1983, by Richard Stallman at MIT

advocate in the free software movement, said to debian mailing list "It's Time to Talk about Free Software Again", founded the Open Research Institute, promotes open radio communications standards and open-source hardware, created The Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source

Executive Chairwoman and CEO of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, one of the first employees of the legal department of Netscape Communications Corporation, wrote both the Netscape Public License and the Mozilla Public License, elected Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.

The Digital Services Act could require big changes to digital platforms. Here are 4 things lawmakers need to know to protect people-powered spaces like Wikipedia.

Clay Shirky aborde le "surplus cognitif" - le travail collaboratif en ligne que nous effectuons grâce à nos cycles de cerveau disponibles. Tout en étant occupés à éditer Wikipedia, à poster sur Ushahidi (et, oui, à faire des LOLcats), nous construisons un monde meilleur et plus coopératif. Clay Shirky argues that the history of the modern world could be rendered as the history of ways of arguing, where changes in media change what sort of arguments are possible -- with deep social and political implications. Language : english Subtitles : french

Check out the first talk The first talk is "Can Social Awards Create Better Wikis?" submitted by Aaron Shaw and Benjamin Mako Hill. In this presentation, two sociologists studying online communities present findings from three studies that give us insight into when and how non-monetary awards and incentives do and do not work.

Sensibilisation à l'écriture collaborative sur Wikipédia : la question du sourçage, la réutilisation du contenu, comment participer à son échelle quand on est lycéen ? © 2011 Mission TICE - CRDP de Versailles

Michael Lackey (born c. 1963), better known as Dynamike, is a professional African American children's entertainer based in Southeast Michigan who is best known for his appearance on Judge Mathis and his performance at the 2014 & 2015 White House Easter Egg Roll.

Unusual : a promotional video by a private company http://www.howcast.com/guides/592-How-to-Use-Internet-Search-and-Web-Browsers