On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:36:50PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > The recent discussions of Red Hat's change of policy got me thinking > about the larger issue of what makes the Debian, GNU, and Linux > communities work? Yes, I have read lots of opinions, but I wonder if > anyone knows of some proper academic people studies, the sort of thing > that might legitimately get published in a referred journal of > sociology or anthropology?
A couple of people have done studies of the Debian community, and I've encountered two personally. Biella Coleman showed up at a Debian conference or two and interviewed a number of people both there and later with an eye to producing an anthropological study, and I believe she was interested in the Apache community as well. Chip McCormick of Albany interviewed me and various others online, and I believe was producing a sociological dissertation. I don't have URLs for final reports, but the names may help with searches. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
