0:05 Thank you for joining us for this Open Learning conversation about Wikipedia and MIT Open Learning, a new strategic collaboration. Thanks also to our small, but mighty Resource Development team here at MIT Open Learning for finding all the ways to organize this online event in a very busy week at MIT.
0:38 And this RD team is so good, they make me recite the following. Before we dive in completely, I'd like to acknowledge that so much of what we do is possible because of support from our friends at charitable foundations, companies, governments, other knowledge institutions, and I can imagine from many of you who've tuned in. If you're able to, please consider making a donation to help ensure that high-quality educational resources
1:11 remain open to all the millions of people around the globe who look to us and initiatives like this one for trustworthy, publicly available knowledge and information. Joining me today-- Curt Newton, director of MIT OpenCourseWare. He has been with OpenCourseWare for 22 years, since February of 2004, approximately 8,283 days.
1:46 And Andrew Lih, a lifelong Wikipedian who has worked with knowledge institutions around the world, who wrote the great book on Wikipedia's early years, and after helping the Smithsonian Institution advance some of its objectives similar to ours, is now working with us at Open Learning. Andrew, I will start with you. Why are you such a pleasure to work with?
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