Interviews re. how conflict is resolved in this open source community

[earino]

I am in the final semester of a MA program in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. I am hoping to write and publish a paper as part of my "dispute systems design" course on how open source organizations like rOpensci handle internal disagreements and disagreements with contributors. These can range from:

• disagreements about the purpose of some code
• the architecture of some code
• quality of code

or deeper issues like:

• establishing a code of conduct
• vision for the whole organization

I would love the opportunity to talk to folks for short blocks, 5-10 minutes informally and get an understanding for how they see this sort of thing handled both inside the rOpensci community, and other tech and scientific communities they are members of.

I would share the paper and the collected data with everyone upon completion. Is this an appropriate use of time at this event?

[noamross]

Would be super happy to chat about this, though most of my experience is related to the editorial process.

On Tue, May 23, 2017, 10:17 AM E. Ariño de la Rubia < [email protected]> wrote:

I am in the final semester of a MA program in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. I am hoping to write and publish a paper as part of my "dispute systems design" course on how open source organizations like rOpensci handle internal disagreements and disagreements with contributors. These can range from:

• disagreements about the purpose of some code
• the architecture of some code
• quality of code

or deeper issues like:

• establishing a code of conduct
• vision for the whole organization

I would love the opportunity to talk to folks for short blocks, 5-10 minutes informally and get an understanding for how they see this sort of thing handled both inside the rOpensci community, and other tech and scientific communities they are members of.

I would share the paper and the collected data with everyone upon completion. Is this an appropriate use of time at this event?

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[sckott]

happy to chat about this @earino

[mdsumner]

Me too this is very interesting.

[revodavid]

I'd be happy to participate

[elinw]

Happy to talk about this.

[earino]

wow! this is awesome :) if you have a few minutes, please ping me on slack and I will come find you. in the meantime, I built a survey, and would appreciate if you had time filling it out! thanks!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1u-ROBfuXRgUnxs6cNqDfWiMQUjkiDZeOkhYvuNpXBp8/viewform

[stefaniebutland]

@earino if you send me an email about this I will fwd to a couple of people who might be interested, and will make an e-intro to you

[earino]

@stefaniebutland :-D

[jacebryan]

@earino - throw back Thursdays :) Are you able to share the results of your survey? I'm looking to include a section surrounding Issue and PR conflicts/resolutions in a community I am building and found this thread in my research.

I found this to be of use as well: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/maintainers-guide-to-staying-positive