User:Emirielli
Ed Mirielli
I am Chair and Professor of the Computer Science and Information Technology Department at Westminster College in Fulton, MO. Fulton is located about 90 miles south-west of St. Louis and about 30 miles east of Columbia, MO. Westminster College is a 4-year, primarily residential liberal arts college with around 1100 students. Currently our CS and IT program has about 50 majors - and growing.
My research and scholarly interests include software engineering, HCI, AI and machine learning, applied statistics, and pedagogy. I am a big believer in interdisciplinary scholarship and have worked collaboratively in epidemiology and demography, computational sociology, computer science, information technology, and psychology. I am currently working with a chemistry department colleague on bringing back to life our chemistry instrument laboratory and establishing a data collection repository for chemical analytics.
When I'm not teaching, learning, and performing administrative tasks, I like to cook and eat BBQ and play golf. These activities can be so relaxing.
Part 1 – Walk through of IRC Conversation
- How do people interact? People are interacting in a soft, semi-formal fashion. There seems to be a specific purpose for this interaction and chat-meeting. The interaction seems to embrace inclusivity by encouraging questions and interaction among the participants.
- What is the pattern of communication? The pattern of communication is alternating between questions, answers, and proposing and reconciling issues or problems. There is a management of the communication by the moderator who interjects summary statements indexed by keywords to capture the salient qualities of the interactions and to establish action steps for further exploration or outcomes.
- Are there any terms that seem to have special meaning? The use of keywords in the form of syntax specific notations (e.g. #info, #action, #topic, etc.) for the chat allow, as stated above, categorization of content and particular thread elements to be organized for later use and summarization.
- Can you make any other observations? There's not a large number of participants - 6 not counting the BOT for this chat session, I guess that will vary from project to project, although I can see how managing this could get hard to follow with LOTS of participants. However, with the moderation and management of content using the IRC commands, the resulting summary report provides a nice way to know what the outcomes of the meeting are and who is responsible. Some participants are asking more questions than others; the questions are being answered or strategies proposed to consider for solving an issue. Problem solving is being attempted and potentially achieved in near real time for some things. I think that this system of communication facilitates quick access to knowledge and problem solving specific to a project's context.
Part 3 Followed GNOME Accessibility Team with little traffic.
== Part B: ==
B1. FOSS Field Trip:
*Use the Search feature in the center of the screen to view applications in an area of interest to you (e.g., gaming, sports, music, computing, etc.).
>>Searched for data mining
*How many projects are there in this category?
>>Really cannot determine definitively since there's seems to be no single authorities summary statistic available. I added up individual items from the refine searches selection for estimate my Best guess = 929pages * 25per page = 23225 projects in this search category... however, "Data Mining" with quotes = 11pages * 25 = 257 projects.
*How many different programming languages are used to write software in this category? >>Data Mining = 15, that that seems common for most projects. "Data Mining" = 12
*List the top four programming languages used to write programs in this category.
Data Mining JAVA (5575) C++ (3035) PHP (2421) C (2288) "Data Mining" JAVA (93) C++ (35) PHP (16) C (13)
*Identify the meaning of each of the statuses below:
Inactive - project seems as though is not currently being worked on or it has been a while last update > year...
Mature - project activity hard to determine especially when there's no content other than a URL to another website, many of the projects in this category have much of the same characteristics as some of the inactive projects.
Production/Stable - at least 1 production release is available for download
Beta - a beta release has been made available for download Alpha - an alpha release may be available for download Pre-Alpha - project is new, so little ready for an alpha release yet
Planning - still in planning stages and seeking assistance, little or nothing ready to download and use
