On 6 February 2013 12:14, Kassen <signal.automatique_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I already send a mail on this topic to the relevant people. I think Ge
> is doing something sabbatical at the moment. If nobody else steps up
> I might give it a go. Think we should have a paragraph like that
> around already, I just don't know where it is.
Ace. "Be bold with your edits", as they say, including hacking at the
introduction.
> Yes, I see and respect that. I was noting it because we are generally
> in between "research" and "fun", there is a lot of balancing going on
> there; it's not just "bleeps for parties" or "we're the experts
> because the field is so obscure that nobody else cares". This balance
> is both important and a endless source of amusement. The Wikipedia
> policy tilts that a bit. That's not bad but it is something to be
> aware of.
True, and there are some fun writings on live coding around which we
should probably draw upon more.
> I am not actually advocating that we hand out questionnaires
> for clubbers to self-report relative levels of happiness. This would
> a) be a mess and b) require controlling for factors the subjects
> likely won't feel like controlling for ;-)
I am wondering how we can understand more about the experience of live
coding though..
> Anyway, I agree with the plan to first make it clear that we are
> demonstrably noteworthy, then see how we can make issues like
> self-expression and recreation encyclopaedic.
Yes, and I'm sure we've done the former several times over. At this
point I am mainly putting references in because I think people would
enjoy reading them :)
alex
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