Hi, On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 04:56:16PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > That's great, thanks for doing and sharing it. I agree with you that > it's way more than just a fun hack, but it can be a useful tool to > understand how the DD community evolves and related figures (e.g. the > correlation among age periods and the amount of volunteer time can have > a lot to say on able people power in Debian).
That made me wonder whether Debian collects references to the research done on it somehow somewhere. I know that some DDs have graduated writing thesis on several aspects of Debian, but I couldn't find a place on Debian's websites that documents this. Google scholar offers an initial guess: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=debian&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=ws but it mixes "howto"-style documents with actual studies on Debian, like this one: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1247454 I find the social and technical dynamics of Debian fascinating -- I'm sure I'm not alone. By exposing prior research on the project more prominently we might be able to encourage further research and maybe learn something from it. Michael -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110714133757.GC22456@meiner
