Megan Squire

The Internet has been instrumental in connecting under-represented and vulnerable groups of people. Platforms built to foster social interaction and engagement have enabled historically disenfranchised groups to have a voice. One such vulnerable group is women. In this paper, we explore the diversity in online women's ideological spaces using a mul...

Video streaming platforms such as Youtube, Twitch, and DLive allow users to live-stream video content for viewers who can optionally express their appreciation through monetary donations. DLive is one of the smaller and lesser-known streaming platforms, and historically has had fewer content moderation practices. It has thus become a popular place...

Messaging platforms, especially those with a mobile focus, have become increasingly ubiquitous in society. These mobile messaging platforms can have deceivingly large user bases, and in addition to being a way for people to stay in touch, are often used to organize social movements, as well as a place for extremists to congregate.In this paper, we...

Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific understanding. However, even though it has become ubiquitous, just collecting large-scale social media data involves a high degree of engineering skill set and computational resources. In fact, research is often times gated by data engineering problems that must be overcome befor...

Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific understanding. However, even though it has become ubiquitous, just collecting large-scale social media data involves a high degree of engineering skill set and computational resources. In fact, research is often times gated by data engineering problems that must be overcome befor...

Messaging platforms, especially those with a mobile focus, have become increasingly ubiquitous in society. These mobile messaging platforms can have deceivingly large user bases, and in addition to being a way for people to stay in touch, are often used to organize social movements, as well as a place for extremists and other ne'er-do-well to congr...

In contrast to dark (illegal, covert, illicit) or bright (legal, overt, above-ground) networks, gray networks conduct a mixture of legal and illegal activities and have an organizational structure that may be only partially known. The goal of this research is to demonstrate techniques for using trace data from Venmo, a payment network, and Facebook...

Islamophobic attitudes and overt acts of hostility toward Muslims in the United States are increasingly commonplace. The goal of this research is to begin to understand how anti-Muslim political groups use the Facebook social network to build their own online communities, and to investigate crossover with other far-right political ideologies, such...

Studying software repositories and hosting services can provide valuable insights into the behaviors of large groups of software developers and their projects. Traditionally, most analysis of metadata collected from software project hosting services has been conducted by specifying some short window of time, typically just a few years. To date, few...

Code forges are third party software repositories that also provide various tools and facilities for distributed software development teams to use, including source code control systems, mailing lists and communication forums, bug tracking systems, web hosting space, and so on. The main contributions of this paper are to present some new data sets...

At its core, free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) is defined by its adherence to a set of licenses that give various freedoms to the users of the software, for example the ability to use the software, to read or modify its source code, and to distribute the software to others. In addition, many FLOSS projects and developers also champion o...

Much communication between developers of free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) projects happens on email mailing lists. Geographically and temporally dispersed development teams use email as an asynchronous, centralized, persistently stored institutional memory for sharing code samples, discussing bugs, and making decisions. Email is especi...

While online behavior creates an enormous amount of digital data that can be the basis for social science research, to date, the science has been conducted piecemeal, one internet address at a time, often without social or scholarly impact beyond the site's own stakeholders. Scientists lack the tools, methods, and practices to combine, compare, con...

Studying software repositories and hosting services can provide valuable insights into the behaviors of large groups of software developers and their projects. Traditionally, most analysis of metadata collected from hosting services has been conducted by specifying some short window of time, typically just a few years. To date, few - if any - studi...

We present VisMap, a Web-based software tool that supports student exploration of possible data visualizations during a typical process of data science practice. Specifically, we detail visualization approaches within three major kinds of data analysis (part-to-whole and rank, correlation, and geospatial) and discuss how VisMap allows students to v...

This paper describes how software developers who use mailing lists to communicate reacted and adjusted to a new supplementary collaboration tool, called a pastebin service. Using publicly-available archives of 8800 mailing lists, we examine the adoption of the pastebin tool by software developers and compare it to the model presented in Diffusion o...

An important task in machine learning and natural language processing is to learn to recognize different types of human speech, including humor, sarcasm, insults, and profanity. In this paper we describe our method to produce test and training data sets to assist in this task. Our test data sets are taken from the domain of free, libre, and open so...

The Stack Overflow web site is an online community where programmers can ask and answer one another's questions, earning points and badges. The site offers guidance in the form of a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), beginning with "What kind of questions can I ask here?" The answer explains that "the best Stack Overflow questions have a bit of sour...

Software forges are centralized online systems that provide useful tools to help distributed development teams work together, especially in free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS). Forge-provided tools may include web space, version control systems, mailing lists and communication forums, bug tracking systems, file downloads, wikis, and the l...

This paper describes a replicable infrastructure solution for conducting empirical software engineering studies based on email mailing list archives. Mailing list emails, such as those affiliated with free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) projects, are currently archived in several places online, but each research team that wishes to study...

This paper outlines the steps in the creation and maintenance of a new dataset listing leaders of the various projects of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Included in this dataset are different levels of committers to the various ASF project code bases, as well as regular and emeritus members of the ASF, and directors and officers of the ASF....

This paper describes a new dataset containing Twitter screen names for members of the projects affiliated with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The dataset includes the confirmed Twitter screen names, as well as the real name as listed on Twitter, and the user identification as used within the Apache organization. The paper also describes the...

Code forges are online software systems that are designed to support teams doing software development work. There have been few if any attempts in the research literature to describe the web of people, projects, and tools that make up the free, libre, and open source (FLOSS) forge ecosystem. The main contributions of this paper are (1) to introduce...

Artifacts of the software development process, such as source code or emails between developers, are a frequent object of study in empirical software engineering literature. One of the hallmarks of free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) projects is that the artifacts of the development process are publicly-accessible and therefore easily col...

In this paper, we describe a new process to collect, calculate, archive, and distribute interesting metrics for all the packages in the standard Debian GNU/Linux installation. Our method replicates and extends previous work done by other groups studying free and open source software systems (FLOSS) in three important ways. First, although there hav...

We seek to establish a national program for research into the science of open source systems. Open source systems are beginning to appear in many diverse disciplines, though perhaps the area with the highest level of activity, visibility, and impact is free/open source software (FOSS) systems. FOSS systems are being researched and developed by fas...

The purpose of this panel will be to discuss the features available in current archives of data about open source projects. The panel will also discuss possible future activities and features to be implemented into these data archives. Community feedback, requests, and questions will also be integrated into this panel discussion.

Empirical research on software development based on data obtained from project repositories and code forges is increasingly gaining attention in the software engineering research community. The studies in this area typically start by retrieving or monitoring some subset of data found in the repository or forge, and this data is later analyzed to fi...

Projects such as FLOSSmole and FLOSSMetrics are compiling huge quantities of data about libre (free, open source) software development. The availability of these data in formats suitable for analysis by third parties are enabling researchers to focus on the study of the data, and not on data retrieval activities. This is fortunate, since data retri...

The purpose of this panel is to disseminate the findings from the related FOSS workshop, a CCC-sponsored exploratory workshop held at University of California, Irvine in February 2010. At the OSS conference we will give first a report of what was learned at the FOSS workshop, and then we will glean important feedback from community members who were...

As digital interfaces increasingly mediate our access to information, the design of these interfaces becomes increasingly important. Designing digital interfaces requires writers to make rhetorical choices that are sometimes technical in nature and often correspond with principles taught in the computer science subfield of human-computer interactio...

This paper describes our efforts to use the large amounts of data available from public repositories of free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) in our undergraduate classrooms to teach concepts that would have previously been taught using other types of data from other sources.

Much of the data about free, libre, and open source (FLOSS) Software development comes from studies of code forges or code repositories used for managing projects. This paper presents a method for integrating data about open source projects by way of matching projects (entities) across multiple code forges. After a review of the relevant literature...

Libre (free, open source) projects offer publicly available data sources. The research community is starting to produce, use and exchange large data sets of information. These data sets have to be retrieved, purged, described, and can be published for public consumption by other groups. Their availability allows for the decoupling of research activ...

This article introduces and expands on previous work on a collaborative project, called FLOSSmole (formerly OSSmole), designed to gather, share, and store comparable data and analyses of free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) development for academic research. The project draws on the ongoing collection and analysis efforts of many research...

This article introduces and expands on previous work on a collaborative project, called FLOSSmole (formerly OSSmole), designed to gather, share, and store comparable data and analyses of free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) development for academic research. The project draws on the ongoing collection and analysis efforts of many research...

This paper introduces and expands on previous work on a collaborative project, called FLOSSmole (formerly OSSmole), designed to gather, share and store comparable data and analyses of free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) development for academic research. The project draws on the ongoing collection and analysis efforts of many research gro...

This article introduces and expands on previous work on a collaborative project, called FLOSSmole (formerly OSSmole), designed to gather, share, and store comparable data and analyses of free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) development for academic research. The project draws on the ongoing collection and analysis efforts of many research...

Assessment processes can add to the workload of any IS program, but particularly vulnerable are small programs for which there are a minimal number of faculty to share the load. Assessment techniques must achieve the right balance between relevancy and reasonableness, that is, being meaningful and practical. The purpose of this paper is to report o...

FLOSSmole is a collaborative data repository which collects and provides data for research on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and its development by online, distributed teams. The data is used by a research community that studies diverse questions from the evolution of software to how these groups make decisions, use various media and man-...

Research on FLOSS has relied on several different kinds of scientific evidence, such as the archives created by the FLOSS developers, versioned code repositories, mailing list messages and bug and issue tracking repositories [1]. FLOSS teams retain and make public archives of many of their activities as by-products of their open technology-supporte...

Much of the data about free, libre, and open source (FLOSS) software development comes from studies of code repositories used for managing projects. This paper presents a method for integrating data about open source projects by way of matching projects (entities) and deleting duplicates across multiple code repositories. After a review of the rele...

Exchange of detailed data about software development between research teams, and specifically about data available from public repositories of libre (free, open source) software projects is becoming more and more common. This workshop will explore the benefits and problems of such exchange, and the steps needed to foster it. As a case example of da...

In this half-day tutorial, participants will gain hands-on exposure to key technologies for data collection about open source projects.

The tutorial will begin with reviews of the main source code repositories, including popular code forges such as Sourceforge, and techniques for collecting data directly from the forges as well as from aggregation projects such as FLOSSmole1. The tutorial will then discuss tools designed for analyzing the data found on forges, such as CVSAnalY2, Py...

This chapter explores the motivations and methods for mining (collecting, aggregating, distributing, and analyzing) data about free/libre open source software (FLOSS) projects. It first explores why there is a need for this type of data. Then the chapter outlines the current state-of-the art in collecting and using quantitative data about FLOSS pro...

This paper will discuss the motivations and methods for collecting quantitative data about free, libre and open source (FLOSS) software projects. The paper also describes the current state of the art in collecting this data, and some of the problems with this process. Finally, the paper outlines the challenges data miners should look forward to whe...

This paper introduces a collaborative project, "OS- Smole", designed to gather, share and store comparable data and analyses of free and open source software development for academic research. The project draws on the ongoing collection and analysis efforts of many research groups, reducing duplica- tion, and promoting compatibility both across sou...

This paper introduces a collaborative project OSSmole which collects, shares, and stores comparable data and analyses of free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) development for research purposes. The project is a clearinghouse for data from the ongoing collection and analysis efforts of many disparate research groups. A collaborative data repo...

This paper introduces a collaborative project OSSmole which collects, shares, and stores comparable data and analyses of free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) development for research purposes. The project is a clearinghouse for data from the ongoing collection and analysis efforts of many disparate research groups. A collaborative data repo...

This paper details experiences using computer forensics as a teaching tool to improve student performance and engagement in the "Introductory Hardware and Systems Software" course at a small, liberal arts institution. Students majoring in information systems often approach the hardware course expecting the standard lecture and textbook readings sup...

This paper compares the content included in 13 database textbooks and gives guidelines to help textbook adoption teams assess whether a particular textbook is appropriate. The comparison includes information from 37 different textbook coverage areas, and refers to the guidance given by related literature and the IS 2002, CC2001, and CC2004 model cu...