[Themaintainers] Maintainers at BHC, and a reading suggestion

[Sarah Fox]

I'd also be interested in participating in a reading group!

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Ellen Foster <el.fostek at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > 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
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>>> >> Ann N. Greene
>>> >> Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies & Assistant Professor
>>> >> Dept of History and Sociology of Science
>>> >> University of Pennsylvania
>>> >>
>>> >> Author, _Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America_
>>> (Harvard, 2008)
>>> >>
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>>> >>
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>>> >>
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> Ellen K Foster
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> Science and Technology Studies
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Sarah Fox
PhD Candidate, Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
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