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May. 7, 2010 /Matter

Yesterday, I attended a pretty interesting PARC Forum where the speakers were three members of the Wikimedia Foundation. For those, that don’t know, Wikipedia is actually part of a larger group of projects (including Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, Wikiversity, etc.) which are all under the umbrella of the Wikimedia foundation, but the talks primarily focused on Wikipedia and how the foundation leverages the community of editors and developers to help build the content and tools that make the site work. PARC will have the video up in a couple days if you want to watch, and you can find the presentation here, but I’m presenting a short summary of some of the interesting tidbits and points here, organized by speaker:

Nov. 5, 2009 /Matter

I just got back from a very enjoyable PARC Forum from Vint Cerf at this week’s entitled “Information on the Go”.  Given his stats (VP of Google, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Turing Award, etc. etc.) it already looked to be…