[TriLUG] Meeting Oct. 8: Crowd Documentation: How Programmer Communities Are Flipping Software Dev

[Matthew Frazier via TriLUG]

Topic: Crowd Documentation: How Programmer Social Communities Are
Flipping Software Development
Presenter: Dr. Christopher Parnin
Sponsor: None yet - contact steering at trilug.org if your org would like
to sponsor!

When: Thursday, October 8 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where: Bandwidth, Venture III, 900 Main Campus Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606
Parking: Venture Center Deck, adjacent to Venture III
(visitor spaces are unrestricted after 5pm)
Map: http://osm.org/go/ZYRUokxgI--

Synopsis:

Software companies, such as Microsoft, create documentation for millions
of topics concerning its APIs, services, and software platforms.
Creating this documentation comes at a considerable cost and effort.
Now, developers are flipping this process by creating their own sources
of documentation via blog posts and Stack Overflow questions and
answers. For Android, not only can more examples be found on Stack
Overflow than the official documentation guide, developers may be
getting as much as 50% of their documentation from Stack Overflow. How
might the crowd find other ways of flipping the processes of software
development?

Speaker Bio:

Chris Parnin is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State
University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia
Institute of Technology. His research spans the study of software
engineering from empirical, HCI, and cognitive neuroscience
perspectives. Two recent research topics include A) using fMRI and EMG
to actually study the brain activity of developers and B) understanding
how crowds of developers come together on sites such as Stack Overflow
and Github to contribute software knowledge. He has worked in Human
Interactions in Programming groups at Microsoft Research, performed
field studies with ABB Research, and has over a decade of professional
programming experience in the defense industry. Chris's research has
been recognized by the SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2009,
Best Paper Nominee at CHI 2010, Best Paper Award at ICPC 2012, IBM HVC
Most Influential Paper Award 2013, featured in Game Developer's
Magazine, Hacker Monthly, and frequently discussed on Hacker News,
Reddit, and Slashdot.

See you there,
Matthew Frazier
PR Officer, Triangle Linux Users Group
https://www.trilug.org/