On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Katharine Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My name is Katharine Anderson, and I'm a researcher at the University of > Michigan, in Ann Arbor. My work looks at collaboration and problem solving. > I'm currently working on a paper that looks at the structure of > collaboration networks. I'm looking at how people with diverse skills group > together when solving problems, and it occurred to me that the open-source > software community is a perfect example of the phenomenon that I'm > interested in. I was wondering if there was any way that I could get data on > participation in development groups? Is there someone who I could talk to > about that? In addition to Manoj's comments, I would add that attending DebConf can be useful to researchers. I met someone at DebConf8 who was researching a specific part of Debian and as far as I can tell, attending was quite helpful to them. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
