[Themaintainers] Maintainers reading group: Julian Orr, Talking About Machines

[Melinda Hodkiewicz]

Hi Nathan
Thanks for all the organising. Can I check if 7 pm is 7 pm US EST Monday. If so that will be 7 am WST Perth Australia time which is good for me and hopefully for Bonita and Martin (both at UWA) as well. When do your clocks go back?
Looking forward to participating
Regards Melinda


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Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2016 5:06 AM
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Subject: [Themaintainers] Maintainers reading group: Julian Orr, Talking About Machines

Although there are still a few votes trickling in, it looks as if we have reached a consensus about when to hold the first #Maintainers virtual reading group.  We will meet online at 7pm on Monday, October 10 (which is one week from today).  We will discuss Julian Orr's 1996 classic *Talking About Machines: an Ethnography of a Modern Job* (ILR Press Ithaca, NY, 1996). 

My apologies to those of you for whom this is an inconvenient or impossible date/time.  Hopefully this will be the first of many such reading groups.   We may need to organize these regionally, especially for those of you not in the United States.   Since I am located in the Eastern Standard Time zone, this first session was a little biased towards my own schedule...

It looks as if our best option for virtual meeting technology is Adobe Connect.  I considered Google Hangouts, but it cannot handle the number of video participants I anticipate.  Adobe Connect has clients for most operating systems, and you can access it via the web,

The URL for the meeting is https://connect.iu.edu/maintainers/

I will send the details again closer to the day.

In the meantime, read your Julian Orr!  

-Nathan 

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Nathan Ensmenger 
Associate Professor of Informatics 
School of Informatics and Computing 
Indiana University, Bloomington 
homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/ 




Please join me in an Adobe Connect Meeting.

Meeting Name:  Maintainers Reading Group
Summary: 
Invited By: Nathan Ensmenger (nensmeng at indiana.edu)
When:  10/10/2016 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Time Zone:  (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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