Posts Tagged “Fedora”
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, (…)
Not quite dead yet…
by Diana on April 16, 2010
It’s only a flesh wound! I mean, that’s how the last month of the semester should start out right? Biting knees and all that jazz… *Shout! Shout! Let it all out!*
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
Fedora – FLOSS Web Based Survey Tools?
by Diana on January 25, 2010
After some great suggestions provided by a couple of people on alternative FLOSS tools for conducting interviews online, I thought I would ask the community if there were any preferred web based FLOSS survey tools available? I’ll be constructing a (…)
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 (…)
Fudcon – Zikula Hackfest
by Diana on December 6, 2009
So, here I am in a hackfest room for Zikula, actually using skills I have as a ui designer in css/html and contributing to the project. Wait, what? I’ve just become a contributor. How did that happen? Outsider looking in, (…)