[Bigbang-dev] IETF mailing list analysis / research

[Nick Doty]

Hi all,

If you're planning to join us for IETF Mailing List Analysis / BigBang hacking this weekend (or working on it in general), a couple of links:

1. the BigBang repo: https://github.com/datactive/bigbang <https://github.com/datactive/bigbang>
You can follow the instructions there to clone the repo and install dependencies and start looking at example notebooks, even before we start hacking

2. an informal list of research questions: https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/wiki/IETF-Research-Questions <https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/wiki/IETF-Research-Questions>
Those are questions we could try to answer with our work this weekend, and I'm sure you have others and please add them or let us know.

3. to actually get all the IETF mailing list data on your machine can take a long time! This page has some options we can use with git-lfs:
https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/wiki/Collecting-and-sharing-mailing-list-archives <https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/wiki/Collecting-and-sharing-mailing-list-archives>
And I believe Niels and I have some data on disk that we could transfer to participants.

Cheers,
Nick

> Hi IETF Hackathon-ers,
> 
> I've added IETF Mailing List Analysis as a technology on the IETF hackathon wiki. Researchers (including folks from UC Berkeley, NYU, University of Amsterdam) have been collaborating on software for analyzing mailing list archives and communication history of technical standard-setting groups including IETF. We'll be getting together at IETF101 to hack on IETF archives to see what we can learn about patterns of participation.
> 
> More info about the open source project here: https://github.com/datactive/bigbang
> 
> We'll have documentation and data ready so that anyone who's interested can start running basic analyses quickly, using Jupyter notebooks. We would also welcome ideas of questions or statistical measures of interest. What have you wanted to know or surface about participation, communication patterns, demographics, spread of ideas, etc. in IETF mailing lists? It might also be a good time to talk about new IETF mail archives formats, a project I believe is in progress.
> 
> Feel free to contact me on- or off-list if you're interested in participating, or have questions or comments.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 
> Nick Doty
> UC Berkeley, School of Information
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