[Bigbang-dev] research questions of interest for standard-setting participation

[Niels ten Oever]

Hi Nick,

This list of questions is great, I have a few additions:


On 02/01/2018 08:02 PM, Nick Doty wrote:
> I've asked around among a few standards folks about what they would be interested to learn about the demographics or patterns of participation that we might be able to understand from mailing lists. Here is a list of potential questions. I've framed these as IETF questions, but I think they could similarly apply to other standard-setting organizations (W3C, say), and maybe in some form to other online communities.
> 
> * how many participants total in IETF work?
> * how "sticky" is participation?
> 	if people participate on a list, do they return? do they show up to f2f meetings?
> 	what's the attrition rate?
> 	what's the distribution of length of participation?
> * who has participated longest? across the most groups?
> 	is there a group of "elites" across working groups?
> 	how many participants are single-group?
> 	how many groups does the typical participant join?

- How does participation look like per affiliation?
- How did participation per affiliation and affiliate category develop
over time?
- How do certain topical words move between mailinglist, are there
central nodes for this?
- What is the relationship between mailinglist participation and RFC authors
- What are 'trending topics' for X period

Hope this helps, happy to jump on a call!

Best,

Niels

> 
> As I believe I've mentioned to this group before, I've been looking into estimating gender in mailing list participation, including:
> 
> * What is the gender distribution of participants in Internet and Web technical standard-setting?
>     how does that distribution differ from the population at large? from employment at related firms?
>     does that distribution change over time?
>     are there sub-groups which have distinctly different distributions?
> * Does the gender distribution of conversation differ from the gender distribution of the participants?
> 
> Do you have questions you'd like to add to this list? Would you be interested in trying to measure/answer one of these questions? Which are the easiest and which are the most difficult? What features would we need to add to BigBang to make them answerable?
> 
> Let me know, I'd love to dive in deeper to some of these questions with collaborators.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 
> 
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