Re: Conducting Research on FOSS communities

[David Arroyo Menendez <davidam@gnu.org>]

Thomas Ingram <taingram@mtu.edu> writes:

> Hello,
>
> This isn't quite the usual question, so I hope I am asking this in the 
> correct place.
>
> I am writing a research paper for my University's Advanced Composition 
> course on discourse communities in free & open source software and I am 
> looking for people willing to answer a few interview questions about the 
> subject. I am reaching out to the GNU Emacs community specifically as I 
> use Emacs everyday and it is perhaps the oldest free software community.
>
> So if anyone who considers themselves a part of Emacs community would be 
> willing to answer some questions, let me know!
>
>
> Thomas Ingram
>
> Michigan Technological University
>
> Computer Science

Hello Thomas,

I'm doing a Phd with Jesús G. Barahona, who is expert measuring floss
comunities from a quantitative point of view. Perhaps you can find
useful these tools: https://chaoss.github.io/grimoirelab-tutorial/perceval/intro.html

Regards.