Overview:

One of the most important parts of our design is the reputation model that will underpin the system. A reputation model is a way for a user community to collectively regulate and calibrate the contributions of its members. This is a well-established field of study, encompassing many years of academic research and with numerous examples of working systems deployed in the real world.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation we are hosting a Workshop, on February 22-24 in San Francisco at the Fort Mason Center, in order to share with and learn from key members of the academic, non-profit, and commercial sectors who research and use reputation systems.

We'll spend an interactive three days of dialogue and white-boarding, together and in breakout groups, with the objective of providing key insights, feedback and guidance to Hypothes.is in developing our draft design.

Attendees:

We are expecting approximately 50 attendees from diverse fields, including reputation modeling, distributed systems, machine learning, annotation, identity, economics, rhetoric and language. Besides the Fellows above, attendees include Karl Aberer, Rob Sanderson, Bob Stein, Alberto Pepe, Kaliya Hamlin, Drummond Reed, Paul Resnick, Matei Ripeanu, Marko Rodriguez, David Rosenthal, Dario Taraborelli, Peter Brantley, John Perry Barlow, Craig Newmark, Jeff Atwood, Fabrice Florin, Steven Tadelis and others.

Fellows:

As part of our effort to involve some of the leading and emerging experts in reputation system design and implementation we announced a Reputation Fellows program. Together with the help of advisors Paul Resnick and Nate Oostendorp, we selected ten individuals from over 26 applicants. We're pleased to announce them, and excited to work with them over the coming year.

Agenda:

The agenda is available here.

Reading List:

We've compiled a reading list for attendees that want to come up to speed on some of the excellent background material in reputation as well as some of the other diverse subjects we'll be covering.

Further information:

There is a mailing list where subsequent announcements and updates will be made, including post-workshop.

The conference is invitation-only, however if you or someone you know would like to attend, please contact us at repworkshop at hypothes.is.