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Eclipse: Building a Stronger Community Summary of Research Proposal Jonathon Cummings Tony O’Driscoll

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Eclipse: Building a Stronger

Community

Summary of Research Proposal

Jonathon CummingsTony O’Driscoll

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Primary Research Question and Focus Areas

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What does it take to build a stronger community? What does it take to build a stronger community? What does it take to build a stronger community? What does it take to build a stronger community?

VALUESVALUES

ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES

TOOLSTOOLS

What values are most RELEVANT to community members?

What is the NATURE of community member work activity?

How are tools USED to conduct community work activity?

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Values Questions (Fedora Example)

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Activities Questions (Fedora Example)

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Need a chart that introduces notion of Activities

Activity DescriptionAmbassadorial Spreading the word about the Project

Debugging Identifying or squashing bugs for the Project

Designing Designing artwork or fonts for the Project

Infrastructure Providing servers, tools, or utilities for the Project

Maintaining/Packaging

Maintaining a packaging for the Projects

Marketing Marketing the Project

Programming Developing code for the Project

Testing Testing packages for the Project

Translating Translating languages for the Project

Writing Writing Documentation for the Project

Other Other Projects not listed above

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Nature of Work Activity Questions

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Need a chart that introduces notion of Activities

Activity DescriptionDuration Time spent on activity

Interdepedance Extent to which activity can be done alone

Resources Extent to which activity requires additional information

Stability Extent to which the activity is changing

Urgency Extent to which activity required immediate feedback

Difficulty Extent to which activity is challenging to do

Complexity Extent to which activity has interconnected parts

Novelty Extent to which activity is similar to something done before

Efficiency Extent to which activity process was efficient

Adherence Extent to which activity process adhered to a schedule

Quality Extent to which outcome was high quality

Success Extent to which outcome exceeded expectations

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Communication and Workflow Tools

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Tool Questions

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•Solve Problems•Execute Tasks•Keep Track of Changes•Prioritize Effort•Organize Information

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Research Analysis

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The research analysis consists of three discrete phasesThe research analysis consists of three discrete phasesThe research analysis consists of three discrete phasesThe research analysis consists of three discrete phases

DESCRIBE

DESCRIBE

CLUSTERCLUSTER

COMPARE

COMPARE

Describe survey findings

Cluster data into groupings based on factor analysis

Compare and contrast clusters

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Research Benefits

Clarity around values (and value clusters) that matter most within and across roles

Clarity around the nature of the work activity (and work activity clusters) within and across roles

Clarity around the tools (and tool clusters) within and across roles

Clarity on alignment across Values, Practices and Tools within and across roles

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Research Project Stages

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InterviewsInterviewsSurvey

Development and Pilot

SurveyDevelopment

and PilotSurvey

DeploymentsSurvey

Deployments

SurveyData Analysis

SurveyData Analysis

Report

Report

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Questions

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