Archive for the “anthropology” category

Master’s completed, check – Onward to PhD!

by Diana on September 8, 2010

Wow, it’s been a while I know! Master’s Completed! On August 12 I presented my practicum / thesis to my anthropology department on the Fedora Project titled: An Exploration of the Fedora Project’s Online Open Source Development Community. The unique (…)

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My take on ‘Guerrilla Research’ as an anthropologist and UXD professional

by Diana on July 21, 2010

I’ve been avidly following a discussion on the anthro-design list about guerrilla research and thought that perhaps my reply as both a traditional researcher and a guerrilla researcher may be useful to those who follow my blog. So, here it (…)

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Need just a few more!

by Diana on May 19, 2010

Fedora Interview NDA Lifted!

by Diana on May 14, 2010

I had a few people come to me after participating in the interview process asking if they could blog about it. At that time I was not finished interviewing people, so I suggested that they wait until the interview process (…)

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And we have lift off!

by Diana on May 10, 2010

Survey Now Available: I am hereby inviting all Fedora contributors to participate in my Fedora Research Survey by clicking on the banner below! If you are not a Fedora contributor, please do not take the survey. Survey Details: All responses (…)

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Cataloging and Using Anthropological Metadata

by Diana on May 4, 2010

So, in my last post I talked about coding and no I don’t mean coding as in scripting or writing programming code (though it is just as tedious), I’m talking about coding qualitative data. For those non-anthropologist among my readers, (…)

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Fedora Research Interviews

by Diana on January 22, 2010

I hope you all are enjoying the new year. I had so much fun at FUDcon getting to know as many people as I could and participating in your wonderful Barcamp and Hackfest. You were all very welcoming and showed (…)

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Hello Fedora!

by Diana on November 20, 2009

Hi! First, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Diana and I am an anthropologist currently in the midst of attaining my Masters degree in Applied Anthropology from the University of North Texas. As a part of my studies (…)

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Two Bits – A mini-review

by Diana on November 15, 2009

I just finished reading Two Bits by Christopher Kelty. I haven’t really had time to sit and think too much about it yet, but one thing that does jump out at me immediately is that the author is an anthropologist (…)

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A helpful list…

by Diana on April 22, 2008

At the end of my quantitative methods class this semester my professor listed out these points as what we are now capable of doing from an anthropological perspective. I found it helpful and think others would to! Selling what you’ve (…)

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