[Autoconf] Fwd: request for help in developing a tool that may be helpful to WG chairs

Ryuji Wakikawa <ryuji.wakikawa@gmail.com> Wed, 03 March 2010 21:36 UTC

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From: Ryuji Wakikawa <ryuji.wakikawa@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:36:46 -0800
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Subject: [Autoconf] Fwd: request for help in developing a tool that may be helpful to WG chairs
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FYI. Please try this survey.

thanks,
ryuji

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> From: sob@harvard.edu (Scott O. Bradner)
> Date: 2010/03/03 07:36:19GMT-08:00
> To: wgchairs@ietf.org
> Subject: request for help in developing a tool that may be helpful to WG chairs
> 
> IETF working group chairs;
> 
> We are developing an open-source tool for monitoring the status and
> progress of conflicts in on-line working groups (WG).  The tool works by
> analyzing the WG mailing list.  When developed, this tool should be
> helpful to WG chairs trying to understand the status of WG discussions
> (how close to consensus is the WG, what is the distribution of
> participation, etc).
> 
> As part of the development process we have been using a prototype tool
> to analyze IETF WG mailing list archives to determine the amount of
> conflict and how effective this conflict is being (has been) resolved.
> As the first step, we need to understand the relationship between the
> conflicts in a working group and the structure of the communication
> network in that group. While having conflicts is not necessarily a bad
> thing for a working group effort, some conflicts can escalate into
> disasters. We are interested in finding the communication patterns
> related to the evolution of group conflicts. Results from this study
> will provide the base for the development of the tool that helps working
> group chairs to decide when to intervene with an internal conflict
> before it becomes irreversibly negative as well as being a tool that may
> help determine where there is consensus on a particular topic.
> 
> We would like your help in understanding the level of conflicts within
> your working groups and how the conflicts affect productivity and group
> members’ perception on the working group. It will be greatly appreciated
> if you could ask your WG members to anonymously fill a short survey at 
> 
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dExTbEU5QmRncnhFbjhQUVR4bzBGMEE6MA
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Best Regards, 
> 
> Bin Zhu, Mark Gaynor, Scott Bradner, and Jialun Qin
>

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