Hi Sharan, Interesting setup. I would like to read the paper :)
Happy Holidays, Georg On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 3:59 AM Sharan Foga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > I’m sorry I haven’t been that active on this recently, this has been > caused by a few things happening that meant that I needed to focus my time > and effort elsewhere. > > One of the things that my time has been focussed on is on assignment for > my MBA where I have used Kibble as my research tool. > > To give you some background. > > My paper was focussed on the transmission of culture and values in open > source and I wanted to create a baseline to be able to measure cultural > indicators. So how can Kibble help? (I hear you ask :-), so let me explain > a little. > > Kibble includes the following: > > - Pony Factor – which is an indicator of the diversity of key project > contributors. So thinking of the Apache culture and its values, we would be > looking to see the Pony Factor grow over time as a project community grows > and accepts new conributors. There is also a meta Pony Factor which tries > to measure the diversity of the companies contributing. > > - Sentient / Mood Analysis – which indicates the mood of the mailing list > communications. > > - Key Phrase Extraction (KPE) – which pulls out important words or phrases > that summarise the main topics or ideas that are being discussed on the > mailing list. > > - Contributor Retention – this is divided into two parts; one is the > length of time contributors have been in a community and two; a breakdown > of active, retained, people who have left a community and also those that > have returned after a breakdown > > > * Methodology * > What I’ve done is this: > > Apache culture was created as a result of the Apache Webserver project. So > I used this Kibble data for this project to create a cultural baseline > based on the above indicators. > > I then took two sets of Apache projects (one group that have been ASF Top > Level projects for over 5 years and one group that have been Apache Top > Level projects for less than 5 years) and measured their indicators in > Kibble. > > I then compared them both to the Apache webserver cultural baseline. > > My results were interesting and the most significant thing I can mention > is that the +1 indicator, which is something culturally unique to Apache as > a consensus indicator came out as part of the KPE analysis is all 3 > groups.(So some cultural transmission is happening!) > > It also seemed to indicate that the older projects were better at some of > the Apache cultural aspects e.g the recognition of merit, where the younger > projects were amazingly successful at community growth. > > I’ll load my paper maybe onto the wiki for people to look at (and probably > critique :-) before I share it more widely within Apache. > > Thanks > Sharan > > > > -- Georg J.P. Link PhD Candidate College of Information Science and Technology | PKI 367 University of Nebraska at Omaha | www.unomaha.edu he/him
