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

[Ruth Frasur]

+1

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Ben Shum <bshum at biblio.org> wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the quick vote of action.  That's general
> agreement to proceed so I have emailed a copy of the letter to the
> student.  I will keep the board apprised of further developments in
> this area and hopefully we can continue to see good things happening.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Ben
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Sharon Herbert
> <sherbert at sitka.bclibraries.ca> wrote:
> > +1 thanks Ben
> >
> > Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos.
> >
> >> On Jul 29, 2015, at 7:24 PM, Ben Shum <bshum at biblio.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> 24 Wooster Ave.
> >> Waterbury, CT 06708
> >> 203-577-4070, ext. 113
> >> <SG-STS-Project Summary-V3.docx>
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>
> --
> Benjamin Shum
> Evergreen Systems Manager
> Bibliomation, Inc.
> 24 Wooster Ave.
> Waterbury, CT 06708
> 203-577-4070, ext. 113
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Ruth Frasur
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