[Themaintainers] Maintainers at BHC, and a reading suggestion

[Ellen Foster]

I would also love to take part!

Shared docs and possibly Google Hang-outs? Or maybe we all share reading
responses with one another? But doing a long-distance chat would be nice
for a reading group.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 7:39 PM, brandon benevento <jbbenevento at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Me too.  How to get a long distance reading group together isn't really my
> area, but I'm definitely in.
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:39 PM, Dick, Stephanie <sadick at fas.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Nathan, and everyone. I would also love to be a part of this
>> reading group.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Stephanie A. Dick
>> Junior Fellow
>> Harvard Society of Fellows
>> sadick at fas.harvard.edu
>> http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sadick/
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>> > On Sep 11, 2016, at 9:52 PM, Philip Scranton <
>> scranton at scarletmail.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPad
>> >
>> > On Sep 11, 2016, at 8:36 PM, "Greene, Ann Norton" <
>> angreene at sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I’d be interested in a reading group!
>> >> Ann
>> >>
>> >>> On Sep 11, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Ensmenger, Nathan <nensmeng at indiana.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I will add my voice to the chorus of folks interested in a
>> Maintainers panel at the BHC.  By my count Bernardo, Ellan, and Andrew have
>> all expressed interest, and we can take the conversation off-list.   If
>> anyone else would like to chime in, just send me an email.
>> >>>
>> >>> On a completely different point: early on in the history of this
>> mailing list it was suggested that we do a virtual reading group.  I have
>> been thinking recently about how communities of maintainers communicate
>> tacit knowledge, and was reminded of what I would argue is one of the
>> greatest history of technology accounts of maintenance work ever written,
>> namely\
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Orr, Julian. Talking About Machines: an Ethnography of a Modern Job,
>> ILR Press Ithaca, NY, 1996.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> If you have not read this book, which is about Xerox repair
>> technicians, you should so as soon as possible!   If you are too busy to
>> read the whole book, read chapter 8  (“war stories of the service
>> triangle”), which describes the ways in which these technicians use stories
>> (vignettes, as Orr describes them) to teach each other the complicated
>> knowledge required to diagnose and repair complex machinery.  These stories
>> were typically shared over breakfast at informal gatherings.  When the
>> company tried to formalize this tacit knowledge into a database driven
>> expert system, the whole system broke down (as did the machines…)
>> >>>
>> >>> Andy and Lee (and others) have done a fabulous job getting the word
>> out about *why* we should study maintenance. Orr’s book is an excellent
>> example of *how* to do it.  If we do decide to do a #maintainers reading
>> group, it might be a good place to start.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> -Nathan
>> >>>
>> >>> ---
>> >>> Nathan Ensmenger
>> >>> Associate Professor of Informatics
>> >>> School of Informatics and Computing
>> >>> Indiana University, Bloomington
>> >>> homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/
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Ellen K Foster
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Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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