[Eg-oversight-board] Proposal to research participation architectures in Evergreen

[Chris Sharp]

+1

Thanks, Ben.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Shum" <bshum at biblio.org>
> To: "Oversight Board" <eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 10:24:09 PM
> Subject: [Eg-oversight-board] Proposal to research participation	architectures in Evergreen
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Last year, Michelle Purcell was a student who did a study on design
> practices in Evergreen (see:
> http://list.evergreen-ils.org/pipermail/eg-oversight-board/2014-October/000900.html).
> They have come back again to ask for further research to be conducted.
> 
> The following two paragraphs are excerpts from an email sent to Ben
> Hyman and forwarded on to me in my role as Evergreen Oversight Board
> Chair:
> 
> > I wanted to give you a quick status of where I am in my research and ask
> > for your help with a matter closely related to it.  First, I've conducted
> > seven interviews with Evergreen community members and analyzed many, many
> > launchpad wishlist bugs.  In May I had to put my interviewing on hold as I
> > prepared some interim results and worked on finishing my proposal which I
> > am scheduled to defend in August.  Once defended I will resume data
> > collection with your community.  I must say everyone has been most helpful
> > and its been a pleasure talking with them.
> >
> > On another note, my advisor and I are submitting a grant proposal to the
> > National Science Foundation (NSF) based on my research.  While I
> > ultimately plan to finish my PhD regardless of gaining funding from the
> > NSF it would be wonderful to do so as it will help me with funding to
> > complete my studies and raise the visibility of my research.  Earlier this
> > year you provided me with a letter of support to give to my institutional
> > review board.  Again, thank you.  I need to ask again for such a letter as
> > my advisor will be the principle investigator for the grant (I cannot be
> > since I do not have my PhD) and the grant application requires the letter
> > be in her name.  Would you be willing to provide such a letter?  If so,
> > below is a sample form of words you can use.  Please feel free to edit.
> > In it it refers to the research proposal which I've attached.   Please
> > note that the grant application is due by 8/3/15.  If you could provide
> > the letter by 7/30/15 that would be most helpful.
> 
> This next section is an adapted version of the requested letter of
> support for the research.  The major change I made was a line where it
> read "You may visit our HQ, if arranged in advance, to meet with core
> members of the project." where I altered it to allow for the
> possibility of multiple site visitations to various community member
> groups, since there is no one headquarter site for the community.
> 
> === BEGIN ===
> 
> Dear Dr. Gasson,
> 
> I have reviewed your research proposal, “Participation Architectures
> For Crowdsourced Innovation Communities.” Your research ideas sound
> very interesting and could be helpful to our community and others, and
> we would like to pursue this work. To this end, we would like to be a
> subject site in your research with the understanding that either party
> can terminate the relations without cause at any time during the
> study.
> 
> I understand that you will conduct virtual interviews with community
> members and ethnographic observations of the community’s collaboration
> processes and information technology use. You may choose to visit with
> various community HQ sites, if arranged in advance, to meet with core
> members of the project. Other data analyzed will consist of publicly
> available data collected from the Internet, e.g., mailing lists, web
> pages, issue tracker data, and Internet relay chat logs.
> 
> We look forward to seeing your findings and recommendations, as these emerge!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Benjamin Shum
> Chair, Evergreen Oversight Board
> 
> === END ===
> 
> So, it's my fault that I wasn't able to act on this much quicker, and
> unfortunately this means we have a very short notice on this request
> and deadline of tomorrow, 7/30/15.  As such, I'd like to request that
> if anyone has any followup questions/discussion prior to voting, to
> please make them known as soon as possible.  Otherwise, I would
> appreciate getting a quick +1/0/-1 from all the board members so that
> we may be able to take immediate action on this.
> 
> Thanks you for your consideration.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Ben
> 
> --
> Benjamin Shum
> Evergreen Systems Manager
> Bibliomation, Inc.
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