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Benjamin Mako Hill

👥 4 conferences
🎤 5 talks
📅 Years active: 2015 to 2019
📊 Wikidata: Q49656

Biography

Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist, technologist, and activist. In all three roles, he works to understand why some attempts at peer production — like Wikipedia and GNU/Linux — build large volunteer communities while the vast majority never attract even a second contributor. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. He is also a faculty affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and an affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science — both at Harvard University. He has also been a leader, developer, and contributor to the free 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 and a PhD from MIT in an interdepartmental program between the Sloan School of Management and the Media Lab.

— biography from LibrePlanet 2018
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Conferences

4 known conferences

👥 Wikimania 2019 📅 16 Aug 2019

  ðŸŽ¤ State of Wikimedia Research 2018-2019
   18 Aug 2019 show details

👥 LibrePlanet 2018 📅 24 Mar 2018

  ðŸŽ¤ Free software and the shifting landscape of online cooperation
   25 Mar 2018 show details

👥 LibrePlanet 2016 📅 19 Mar 2016

  ðŸŽ¤ The state of free: revising the High Priority Projects list
   19 Mar 2016 show details

👥 LibrePlanet 2015 📅 21 Mar 2015

  ðŸŽ¤ Access without empowerment
   22 Mar 2015 show details
  ðŸŽ¤ The state of free: Revising the High Priority Projects list
   21 Mar 2015 show details