Re: popularity contest data for economic theory testing

2009-09-09 Thread Nagy Viktor - Akasha
unfortunately, it's available only for the current week, not for past
periods

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Siegfried Gevatter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> That data is available here: http://popcon.ubuntu.com/
>
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> Free Software Developer   363DEAE3
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Fwd: Distro Summit 2010: Call for Papers

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew SB
This was sent to debian-devel-announce. Seems as if it might be of
interest here...

- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

-- Forwarded message --
From: Fabio Tranchitella 
Date: 2009/9/9
Subject: Distro Summit 2010: Call for Papers
To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org


===
CALL FOR PAPERS
===

Distro Summit 2010 is a one-day technical conference with a strong focus on
collaboration between Free Software distributions. The event is  hosted at
the linux.conf.au, which will be held in Wellington (New Zealand) on the
18-23 of January, 2010.

We are looking for proposals from any Free Software distribution, from the
typical full distributions (both linux and non-linux) to the niche market
derivatives.

In spite of the strong focus on collaboration between Free Software
distributions, topics may include packaging, maintenance, relationship with
upstream developers, release management and QA.

For more informtion, please visit: http://distrosummit.org.


Important dates
===

 * Call for papers ends: Wednesday 30 September 2009
 * Announcing the schedule: Friday 2 October 2009
 * Distro Summit 2010: 18/19 January 2010


Presentation types
==

We will accept proposals for:

 * 25 minute standard-length presentations;
 * 50 minute long presentations.

Session lengths include time for audience questions.

We intend for standard-length presentation to make up the vast majority of our
presentations. If you plan on submitting a proposal for a long presentation, a
willingness to present a standard-length presentation will impact positively on
your proposal.


Submit a proposal
=

To submit your proposal, we'll need the following information:

 * Your name, contact details and a short biography;
 * Your proposal title;
 * Intended audience;
 * An abstract;
 * Presentation outline;
 * Presentation type (standard-length or long).

To submit a proposal, or get more information, please write to
c...@distrosummit.org.


About the Distro Summit
===

The Distro Summit 2010 is a one-day developer conference with a strong focus on
collaboration between free software distributions hosted at the linux.conf.au
2010 (http://www.lca2010.org.nz). In addition to a schedule of technical,
social and policy talks, the Distro Summit provides an opportunity for
developers, contributors and other interested people to meet in person and work
together more closely.

Previous similar events have featured speakers from around the world. They have
also been extremely beneficial for developing key free software software
components and for improving collaboration and sharing between the different
distributions.


Target Audience
===

The Distro Summit is (mainly) a technical event, but this does not mean that
the only target audience are developers and maintainers of free software
distributions: the event will feature talks that range from the development to
real-world use cases, going through marketing and the social aspects of the
maintenance of free software distributions.

--
Fabio Tranchitella
on the behalf of the Distro Summit organizers

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Re: popularity contest data for economic theory testing

2009-09-09 Thread Siegfried Gevatter
Hi,

That data is available here: http://popcon.ubuntu.com/

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popularity contest data for economic theory testing

2009-09-09 Thread Nagy Viktor - Akasha
Dear Ubuntu Devs/Webmasters,

I would like to know whether it is possible to receive the popularity
contest data (without the MY_HOSTID identifier) from the very past until
today.

The reason why I ask is to run an empirical study on open source
development, and software development in general. In economics, a special
market is a two-sided markets. It is characterised by three players, 2 user
groups and a platform. The distinguishing feature of these markets compared
to other markets is that members of let's say group 1 are more likely to
join the platform if more people of group 2 join it, and vica versa.
Examples include dating clubs, where men and women would like to meet, or
programming projects where developers are more likely to develop for the
iPhone because of its large user base, then for Android, and this assures
that iPhone has nicer apps, and thus more users. Of course, this can be said
about other IT projects as well.
Even though software development is one of the most noted examples in
theoretical articles, no study have looked at the effect empirically.

The idea about popularity contest data is to extend that dataset (probably
for a limited set of projects) with mailing-list, Trac and version control
log files in order to have measures for development intensity, and test how
strong the two-sided effect might be in open source software development.
Moreover, such a study might come up with insights on the critical times in
a project's life, that might help Canonical and other open source software
companies to better organise their resources.

I hope you will find the above idea interesting, and will help me by
providing these data.

Thanks for your time and effort,
Viktor
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