[Eg-oversight-board] Proposal to research design practices in Evergreen

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

Adding on the what Ben said, Michelle indicated that she is very 
interested in looking at how end users can be involved in open source 
communities. She thought Evergreen would be a good project to include in 
the study because she has seen so much interaction from end users in our 
community.

Ben, the letter looks fine to me as is.

Kathy

Kathy Lussier
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On 10/28/2014 7:35 PM, Ben Hyman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Kathy Lussier and I spoke with Michelle Purcell today. Michelle 
> contacted me in late September, as follows:
>
>> Hello, I am a PhD student at Drexel University in the College of 
>> Computing and Informatics.  My research focuses on design practices 
>> in open source projects.  From what I've read about Evergreen the 
>> project would be interesting to study as part of my doctoral 
>> research.  Would it be possible to talk with you briefly about 
>> Evergreen and the possibility of it including it in my research?
>>
>> For additional information I've attached my research proposal. 
>> Additional information about me can be found at 
>> https://drexel.academia.edu/MichelleWPurcell.
>
> See attached research proposal. Based on the conversation we had with 
> Michelle today, I think its fair to say that Kathy and I see no reason 
> why Michelle shouldn't proceed, with several potential benefits for 
> the Evergreen community (Michelle is a former Software Dev and 
> expressed interest in connecting with Kathy on a bite size project, 
> e.g.). Michelle is looking now for a letter of support from us, as 
> follows:
>
>> Dear Michelle Purcell:
>>
>> I have reviewed your research proposal, "Human-centered Design 
>> Practices in Vertical Market Free and Open Source Software." I 
>> understand that you will virtually conduct both interviews with 
>> community members and ethnographic observations of the community's 
>> collaboration processes and information technology use. Additional 
>> data collected will consist of publicly available data collected from 
>> the Internet, e.g., mailing lists, web pages, issue tracker data, and 
>> Internet relay chat.
>>
>> We would like to collaborate with your research team as an active 
>> participant in the study.
>
> Any thoughts, concerns or stipulations you would like to see?
> All the best,
> Ben
>
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