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**'''[[User:Lucks|Lucks]] 21:40, 8 August 2006 (EDT):''' I know one of the Reddit founders (Chris Slowe), who is a grad student in the physics department at Harvard.  The company is based in Somerville and is the big success of [http://www.paulgraham.com/ Paul Graham's] and [http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rtm/ Robert Morris's] (MIT Computer Science) VC firm [http://ycombinator.com/ Y-Combinator].  I have been involved with them in creating [http://arxiv.reddit.org arxiv.reddit.org], and at that time they were very enthusiastic about helping out science with their technology.  They were also flexible in tayloring their technology for science needs, and aware of the concerns about a company involved with open content.  Chris and I also talked with [http://sciencecommons.org/about/people#jw John Wilbanks] at Science Commons about some of these issues with arxiv.reddit, and making all comments that appear on the cite covered by an appropriate creative commons license.  I think they would be up for adopting OWW's policy.  In the end they are a company, but one that wants to help science.
**'''[[User:Lucks|Lucks]] 21:40, 8 August 2006 (EDT):''' I know one of the Reddit founders (Chris Slowe), who is a grad student in the physics department at Harvard.  The company is based in Somerville and is the big success of [http://www.paulgraham.com/ Paul Graham's] and [http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rtm/ Robert Morris's] (MIT Computer Science) VC firm [http://ycombinator.com/ Y-Combinator].  I have been involved with them in creating [http://arxiv.reddit.org arxiv.reddit.org], and at that time they were very enthusiastic about helping out science with their technology.  They were also flexible in tayloring their technology for science needs, and aware of the concerns about a company involved with open content.  Chris and I also talked with [http://sciencecommons.org/about/people#jw John Wilbanks] at Science Commons about some of these issues with arxiv.reddit, and making all comments that appear on the cite covered by an appropriate creative commons license.  I think they would be up for adopting OWW's policy.  In the end they are a company, but one that wants to help science.
*Do we know if mediawiki is developing an equivalent system built in to their source base? [[User:Endy|Endy]] 21:04, 8 August 2006 (EDT)
*Do we know if mediawiki is developing an equivalent system built in to their source base? [[User:Endy|Endy]] 21:04, 8 August 2006 (EDT)
**'''[[User:Lucks|Lucks]] 21:44, 8 August 2006 (EDT):''' It would be great if we could add a mediawiki extension and do everything ourselves from the view of not involving a company.  However, reddit has designed a nice technology to deal with common problems of such a system (spam, posts on the 'hot' list don't stay up there forever but change with time, etc.)  The drawback is that last time I looked arxiv.reddit had adds.  I do know that they also license their product out.  Perhaps a publishing house would like to pay for us to license their technology?  These might be long-term thoughts.

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  • Who owns/controls reddit and does it matter? Endy 21:04, 8 August 2006 (EDT)
    • Jasonk 21:34, 8 August 2006 (EDT):Yeah, good question - I can't find their license, who owns the comments?
    • Lucks 21:40, 8 August 2006 (EDT): I know one of the Reddit founders (Chris Slowe), who is a grad student in the physics department at Harvard. The company is based in Somerville and is the big success of Paul Graham's and Robert Morris's (MIT Computer Science) VC firm Y-Combinator. I have been involved with them in creating arxiv.reddit.org, and at that time they were very enthusiastic about helping out science with their technology. They were also flexible in tayloring their technology for science needs, and aware of the concerns about a company involved with open content. Chris and I also talked with John Wilbanks at Science Commons about some of these issues with arxiv.reddit, and making all comments that appear on the cite covered by an appropriate creative commons license. I think they would be up for adopting OWW's policy. In the end they are a company, but one that wants to help science.
  • Do we know if mediawiki is developing an equivalent system built in to their source base? Endy 21:04, 8 August 2006 (EDT)
    • Lucks 21:44, 8 August 2006 (EDT): It would be great if we could add a mediawiki extension and do everything ourselves from the view of not involving a company. However, reddit has designed a nice technology to deal with common problems of such a system (spam, posts on the 'hot' list don't stay up there forever but change with time, etc.) The drawback is that last time I looked arxiv.reddit had adds. I do know that they also license their product out. Perhaps a publishing house would like to pay for us to license their technology? These might be long-term thoughts.
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