If you are interested in becoming an experimenter, just download the theme+plugin and go ahead and get in touch with us. We’ll give you access to our code repository and bug tracking system. There is also an Experimenter RSS Feed you can listen in at.
This theme is an experiment. Not just in design, but in experimental methodology, sharing, and process. The license the the theme is offered under is not a creative commons, gpl, or anything that you are probably familiar with. The recycled learning license is a little different, and deserves some explanation.
Essentially if you use the theme you agree to install a wordpress plugin that collects some data and sends it back to us. Mostly we’re after mousetracking data - the x,y coordinates that your visitors send their mouse tails to. For more information about this, see Ernesto Arroyo’s short paper on the mousetracking tools. This data is completely available for anyone to see (including, unfortunately, unscrupulous types like advertisers - although commercial uses are technically forbidden by the terms of the license). The intent is to use this for academic research in how people share designs, use blogs, and a variety of other purposes. It takes a few minutes to sink in, so please read the license details before you click download.
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