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Initial Questions
- General Stats
- How many posts/per
- How many new posts, how many responses
- How many active members (active = at least 1 post)
- Pseudonyms vs real names
- Comment - Georgia: I don't know if this is valid, but I wonder if it might be interesting to compare communities where people tend to use their real name vs communities that don't and when/how/if gender is identifiable and a prevalent tension.
- Membership over time
- Welcome
- Frequency of “pleasantries”
- e.g. “hello” “thank you” - signing names?
- hey, hi, hello, thank you, thanks, cheers
- Authorship/gender breakdown of pleasantries
- Search for Knowledge
- Who asks questions?
- Who answers questions?
_Starting _
- Membership
- What is the gender breakdown of members?
- What is the gender breakdown of posting vs. lurking?
- Leadership
- What is the gender breakdown of top posters?
- Who is the leading voice by gender?
- How much do leaders generate new posts or respond to existing posts?
- Timing
- If we estimate that every 100 words take 30 seconds, how much time are people spending on mailist list?
- What is the gender breakdown of time commitment?
- When are most posts posted? (time of day)
- Exchange
- What is the length of time / thread?
- How long does a thread stay alive?
- Gender breakdown of participants?
- Missed Connections
- Who are the single posters that never post again?
Where in the world (geographically) are the hotspots of open source activity? How does that compare to population density in those areas? - Cameron Shorter (04/04)
Software purchasers and project sponsors wish to determine which software packages to select, and in doing so wish to determine the cost of extending a project, the long term prospects for the project, such as whether other external organisations and developers will continue to develop and extend the project. Question: Can we derive a correlation between characteristics of an email list, and the long term viability of a project?
Software Developers / Sponsors wish to determine whether it is more valuable to spend time nurturing an email list, or spend time elsewhere, eg writing code. Question: What is the Return on Investment from supporting email lists?