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At the meeting today we discussed a possible paper for HICSS.
This was the outline we sketched:
The concept of core group is an important and often discussed one in empirical studies of FLOSS projects. This paper will examine the question, "how does one empirically distinguish the core?".
3 measures:
1. Bradford's law analysis, (using addition across the bug discussion matrices)
2. Core and periphery, (using UCI's core/periphery calculations on the bug metrics)
3. Named developer list. (using data from OSSmole.)
The study is of general relevance because there is research that shows that, across social activities and groups, there is a standard group size, eg 7ish, which forms the core of social groups. It is possible that Computer Mediated Communication might increase this amount. We either do, or do not, find preliminary evidence of such an increase.
This was the outline we sketched:
The concept of core group is an important and often discussed one in empirical studies of FLOSS projects. This paper will examine the question, "how does one empirically distinguish the core?".
3 measures:
1. Bradford's law analysis, (using addition across the bug discussion matrices)
2. Core and periphery, (using UCI's core/periphery calculations on the bug metrics)
3. Named developer list. (using data from OSSmole.)
The study is of general relevance because there is research that shows that, across social activities and groups, there is a standard group size, eg 7ish, which forms the core of social groups. It is possible that Computer Mediated Communication might increase this amount. We either do, or do not, find preliminary evidence of such an increase.
