[Themaintainers] Maintainers at BHC, and a reading suggestion

Tue Sep 13 07:38:05 EDT 2016

Count me in as well
Thanks
Bernardo

On 13 Sep 2016, at 01:07, Sarah Fox <perhaxis at gmail.com<mailto:perhaxis at gmail.com>> wrote:

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:sadick at fas.harvard.edu>> wrote:
Thanks Nathan, and everyone. I would also love to be a part of this reading group.

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> On Sep 11, 2016, at 9:52 PM, Philip Scranton <scranton at scarletmail.rutgers.edu<mailto:scranton at scarletmail.rutgers.edu>> wrote:
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> On Sep 11, 2016, at 8:36 PM, "Greene, Ann Norton" <angreene at sas.upenn.edu<mailto:angreene at sas.upenn.edu>> wrote:
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>> I’d be interested in a reading group!
>> Ann
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>>> On Sep 11, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Ensmenger, Nathan <nensmeng at indiana.edu<mailto:nensmeng at indiana.edu>> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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\
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>>> Orr, Julian. Talking About Machines: an Ethnography of a Modern Job, ILR Press Ithaca, NY, 1996.
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>>> 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…)
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>>> 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.
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