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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''== | =='''Upcoming Speakers'''== | ||
====Wednesday, July 17, 2019: Growing Their Own: What We Can Learn from the Community-Driven Development of Archive of Our Own==== | |||
* Date: ednesday, July 17, 2019 | |||
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT | |||
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-2019-07-17 | AirMo] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDBXwS7XtM | Youtube] | |||
* Topic | |||
<BLOCKQUOTE> | |||
<p> The fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own hosts almost 5 million works and 2 million users. It is also an open source project that was designed and developed entirely by the community it serves—which consists largely of women and LGBTQ people—and relies on a small army of volunteers who maintain a value-driven search and tagging system. This talk traces the history, growth, and features of the archive, which include grassroots development, design for inclusivity and empowerment, the benefits and challenges of maintaining a volunteer development team, and how a number of these volunteers from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing picked up computational skills along the way. | |||
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* Speaker: | |||
<BLOCKQUOTE>Casey Fiesler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research focuses on creating more positive networked spaces, which includes work on technology ethics, online governance, social norms, and designing to support marginalized groups. She is a member of the legal committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind the open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. Her ethics research is funded by the National Science Foundation PERVADE project, dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for pervasive human data, and Mozilla and partners' Responsible Computer Science challenge. | |||
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish] | |||
* Questions: | |||
** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series | |||
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers | |||
===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors=== | ===Diversity & Inclusion for Communities and Contributors=== | ||
We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here]. | We also host a series targeted at the broader community and contributors, focusing on Diversity & Inclusion. You can see the roster [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_for_Communities_and_Contributors#D.26I_in_Open_Communities_-_Call here]. | ||