I think you can create an event on Google+.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Joseph Gentle <jose...@gmail.com> wrote: > tldr; I need some volunteers to collaboratively edit a document > together, so we can systematically evaluate algorithmic performance. > > > So recently Michael linked me to a paper[1] which evaluates a bunch of > different concurrency algorithms on speed & memory usage. They got a > bunch of students to collaboratively edit two documents and used the > operations generated in their benchmarks. > > The paper has some glaring omissions[2], and the data they gathered > isn't publicly available. Of course, I also want to test Torben's > algorithm to see how well it performs with realistic usage. > > So I'd like to reproduce their experiment. To do this I need a few > volunteers to collaboratively edit some documents. We should construct > realistic editing scenarios. The paper did two things: > - Transcribe an episode of big bang theory > - Write a report > I'm open to suggestions on what we should do - we could also try > collaborative creative writing, writing notes on a youtube video, or > something. It doesn't really matter so long as the activity is > focused, realistic (no keyboard mashing) and involves collaboration. > (Sequential editing scenarios aren't interesting) > > To do this, I'll set up a special instance of ShareJS with ~1s of > artificially induced latency and extra logging for the experiment. I > want to run this experiment either late next week or on the weekend. > > The more experimental runs the better - although I suspect most of > what we learn will be from the first couple logs. > > I will publish the raw data from the logs and send out a followup > email. The experiment will be anonymous, but don't say anything you > wouldn't want publicly known. > > How does that sound? Who's willing to help out? > > -J > > > > [1] > http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/62/95/03/PDF/doce63-ahmednacer.pdf > [2] Criticisms: > - Operations only insert or remove a single character, which means > that a copy+paste that one of the users did resulted in 5000 > operations, each of which needed to be transformed individually. > - Their text editor didn't batch changes - which is really stupid and > unrealistic. > - The students were all working locally (on a LAN), so there would > have been fewer concurrent actions than we should realistically > expect. >
