Anthropological fieldwork in the Ubuntu development community

Benj. Mako Hill mako at ubuntu.com
Sat Apr 22 21:40:43 BST 2006


<quote who="Andreas Lloyd" date="Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:27:27PM +0200">
> My name is Andreas Lloyd and I am a graduate student at the department
> of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Having used
> and enjoyed Ubuntu since november 2004, I have become very interested in
> the social workings of Free Software projects, and I wanted to combine
> my interest in F/OSS projects with my graduate studies. Therefore I
> propose to start an anthropological fieldwork study of the Ubuntu
> development community.

I look forward to seeing you around in the community and look forward
to reading your thesis. Hopefully you can help us learn a bit about
ourselves and become a better project.

Regards,
Mako

-- 
Benjamin Mako Hill
mako at ubuntu.com
http://mako.cc

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so
far as society is free to use the results. --RMS



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