Subject: [hackathon] IETF mailing list analysis / research

From: Nick Doty <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 11:37:27 -0800

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 <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