On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 03:45:32PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > There is one mentioned here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Statistics#Scientific_papers_with_statistics_about_Debian > > And some more here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/research
Thanks for the pointers! > > 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. > > I'd encourage you to contribute to the research wiki page if you find > any new/old research. I will. However, I wonder if the current setup of this page is optimal. The page doesn't offer the actual papers -- only links to the people who wrote them. Not all the links actually point to something meaningful. Moreover, such links are often doomed to become invalid -- simply by the way science careers work. What about collecting the actual document and attaching them to this page (license permitting), or a DOI link? What about merging the separate publication list into this page (actually there was a discussion on a canonical reference file for Debian related work on debian-science some time ago)? Note, these question are meant like: Is there consensus on doing it this way, not that somebody else should do it ;-) > It might be interesting to link to these existing studies from > debian-history or debian-timeline, you might like to submit patches. Definitely! It didn't even know about debian-history. > Personally I feel that research without feedback to Debian is > suboptimal, we should be able to learn from studies of Debian and > change in positive ways as a result. The publication itself can be considered feedback -- it is just that you need to know that it is there in order to be able to read it in order to form a personal opinion. -- 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/20110714142237.GE22456@meiner
