on Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:09:08AM +0000, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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.
Best I know, Biella's been on a leave of absense from her research for
the past year or so.
> Chip McCormick of Albany interviewed me and various others online, and
> I believe was producing a sociological dissertation.
There's also Siobhan O'Mahony's Stanford PhD dissertation:
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/omahony.pdf
...not exactly a page-turner, but there's some interesting stuff in
there. Some of her follow-up articles have been more accessible.
http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3582&t=technology
Peace.
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