Archive for the “research” category

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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Fedora Hacker Challenge!

by Diana on March 1, 2010

I was talking in #fedora-mktg with Mel Chua today about my dilemma of finding a count of currently active Fedora Project contributors. So she whipped up a twill script in python to get a count on contributions based on FAS (…)

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How to get a number for that which can’t easily be counted

by Diana on February 28, 2010

During this next part of my research process I will be posting a survey available to all Fedora contributors. Luckily, this part of the participation process requires no signatures! So, those of you who were unable to participate in the (…)

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Fedora: On Research Design

by Diana on February 8, 2010

Research design in anthropology is a tricky thing. It is the part of the process you do before you do anything else, and thus you do before you have any real sense of the situation in which you will be (…)

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Fedora: Still looking for Interview Participants!

by Diana on January 28, 2010

If you would like to participate in the interview portion of the Fedora research project I am current conducting, please visit my informational post on it here! I need at least 10 more willing participants by the end of next (…)

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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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FUDCon Toronto – Barcamp Overview

by Diana on December 10, 2009

Fudcon Tornoto was a blast – seriously, it reminded me why I miss lan parties (hey, I’m a gamer!). A bunch of hackers getting together and hacking for the LOVE of it was just awesome to witness and be a (…)

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Preparing for FUDCon: Toronto

by Diana on November 22, 2009

As we start upon this holiday week (in the US) I am pulling together my resources in preparation for the Fedora developer conference the first weekend in December. Part of this process includes making my introduction to the Fedora group, (…)

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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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