* Quick interview with any community members
@ 2018-10-30 21:34 Alex Frederiksen
2018-10-31 12:29 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
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From: Alex Frederiksen @ 2018-10-30 21:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
Hey guys.
I decided to do a college paper on the Linux discourse community,
particularly on how a person navigates between groups and gains "authority"
within the community. If ya guys could answer some of my questions, that
would be real swell and I'd appreciate it. (:
1. Would you consider yourself closer to a "novice" or an "expert" in the
community?
2. How do "novices" and "experts" interact?
3. What would you say is the primary way(s) of communication?
4. Are there ways to attain authority (as a maintainer or leader of sorts)?
If so, how?
5. What are some of the common goals of the community?
Regards, Alex
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* Quick interview with any community members
2018-10-30 21:34 Quick interview with any community members Alex Frederiksen
@ 2018-10-31 12:29 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
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From: Nicholas Mc Guire @ 2018-10-31 12:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 05:34:38PM -0400, Alex Frederiksen wrote:
> Hey guys.
>
> I decided to do a college paper on the Linux discourse community,
> particularly on how a person navigates between groups and gains "authority"
> within the community. If ya guys could answer some of my questions, that
> would be real swell and I'd appreciate it. (:
>
> 1. Would you consider yourself closer to a "novice" or an "expert" in the
> community?
> 2. How do "novices" and "experts" interact?
> 3. What would you say is the primary way(s) of communication?
> 4. Are there ways to attain authority (as a maintainer or leader of sorts)?
> If so, how?
> 5. What are some of the common goals of the community?
>
Nice try but any literature on sociology-statistics basics - look
up voluntary response, undercoverage and unknown non-responders -
will tell you that you can not do that - you will not get
a representative sample this way - the only way you can do this
in a sound way is to take a list of kernel contributors
e.g.
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
cd linux-stable
git log --pretty=format:"%an %ae" | sort -bf | uniq -i > list_of_contributors
which will give you a list of author names and author emails
(with some duplicates due to changing email or name typos - so those
will need manual checking) and then do a clean random sample on that
"population" sending them a request to answer your questions - and
don?t forget to factor in the non-responders !
thx!
hofrat
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