Dear Wesnoth developers, I'm Giacomo Poderi, a couple of months ago I introduced myself and my research project [0], announcing a forthcoming recruitment for interviewees. Now, here I am to call for your help in carry on my research project.
Brief summary. I'm working within the area of distributed participation in continuous-design based projects. In particular, my research project takes BfW as a case study to investigate how (end-)users participate to FOSS design & development. I use qualitative methods (mainly interviews and participant observation) to carry my research. With the interviews I intend to run here, I am interested in understanding how BfW developers gather, use and make sense of knowledge coming from end-users and that relates to their participation (to the BfW project) and to their users' gaming experience. For this reason, I'm asking for your help and a little bit of your time: I'm looking for candidates volunteering to be my interviewees! If you are willing to be interviewed please let me know by private mail. Details about the interviewing process are provided below, but I will also be happy to clarify any further doubt (either by private mail or public discussion). Thank you very much for your attention and I'm looking forward to your participation! Cheers, Giacomo Poderi - BfWEthnographer PARTICIPANTS - Anyone subscribed to the -dev mailing list and who contributes (or contributed in the past) to the furthering of the BfW project is eligible for and welcome to participate to the interview! ROADMAP - Recruitment: open until 4th April 2011 - Scheduling interview dates/line-up: 5th - 9th April 2011 - Conducting interview: Starting from 11th April until 6th May (approx.) INTERVIEWING METHODS I am available to conduct interviews in different ways, accordingly to your needs. - E-MAIL: it involves a longer, but more flexible, time span for the interview, since it could run for some weeks. This looks more like an ongoing e-mail discussion rather than a 'classical interview'. I plan to ask 5/6 questions, each question within one e-mail. You can answer them when you prefer and have time to. - IRC: we will set up a date and run a chat-session on IRC. Basically, I plan to ask the same 5/6 questions but in a more dynamic and interactive way. I do not expect the session to last longer than 2h (we can also split it in two sessions of ~1h, if needed) - VoIP/PHONE: We set up a date and your favourite VoIP (or a fixed phone number where I can reach you) and I run the interview by 'phone'. Interview should last between 1h/1h30m. I will provide more information for each given method to interested people. REFS: [0] https://mail.gna.org/public/wesnoth-dev/2011-01/msg00002.html - Overview of my research project: http://www.poderi.eu/node/2 - My research blog: http://www.poderi.eu/blog -- PhD Student - Information Systems and Organisations Department of Sociology and Social Research University of Trento _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
