CommunityData:Workshop

Summer 2026 workshops are on Wednesday at 11:30am PT / 1:30pm CT / 2:30pm ET. Please circulate/share your work no less than 5 days in advance of your slot.

The CDSC workshop provides a weekly venue to present/share work, to hear talks from outsiders, to discuss papers togther, or to have substantive conversations about research.

People presenting or sharing work will bring a range of materials to the workshops: planning documents, draft papers, manuscripts with reviews, grant applications, job-market materials, practice talks, brainstorming potential projects, etc.

As we build this schedule, don't forget to check each campus's holiday schedule. Also, semester/quarter breaks can diverge.

The workshop rules norms are:

1. Although we understand that people will sometimes have conflicts with one of the workshop (and that's OK), everyone in the group is expected to attend every workshop session.
2. Everyone is also expected to present/share in the workshop regularly. Given the size of the group that means a couple times each year.
3. If people are expected to read something in advance, presenters should circulate the work 5 days prior to their workshop slot.
4. Every person attending is expected to participate actively and provide feedback to the person who has shared work. It can be something small and superficial. This norm is relaxed if the material came very late so that it was not possible for you to have read things before the meeting.
5. Faculty do not speak until every nonfaculty member has spoken. That might mean you don't hear from faculty, in which case their feedback will come in writing in the notes or over email/Matrix.

Summer 2026

• Jun 24 — no workshop
• Jul 1 — Dylan: ArbCom paper draft (message me if you want to take this workshop slot)
• Jul 8 — Mako (as host): The long tale of the tale by James Mellody (journal club/reading group)
• Jul 15 — kaz: REU presentation
• Jul 22 — Annika: Tech & Prisons (paper draft & short research presentation)
• Jul 29 — Dylan (as host): Fiction Reading Group - Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
• Aug 5 — Iris: REU Project
• Aug 12 — Eric: Institutional communication and Wikipedia
• Aug 19 — Yibin: Yibin's job market materials
• Aug 26 — matt: MediaWiki Case Studies Manuscript
• Sep 2 — [skipped]
• Sep 9 — Ran: Moderators' decision making

Fall 2026

• Oct 2 — Yiwei: Examining the Stack Exchange Moderators’ Strike (CSCW Presentation Practice)
• Oct 9 — [open]
• Oct 16 — [open]
• Oct 23 — Dionna: ICA Submission
• Oct 30 — Kaylea: Bothell Showcase (preliminary)
• Nov 6 — [open]
• Nov 13 — [open]
• Nov 20 — [open]
• Nov 27 — [open]
• Dec 4 — [open]
• Dec 11 — [open]
• Dec 18 — [open]

Past workshops

For past workshop schedules, see the workshop archive.

Generating the next season's skeleton

Each workshop slot is a {{workshop-slot}} template invocation. To start a new season/quarter, paste the following into a shell (adjust d to the start date, e to the end date, and w to the three-letter day abbreviation). The output is a sequence of empty {{workshop-slot|...}} blocks ready to paste into the page.

d=2026-04-01 e=2026-06-12 w=Fri
while [[ "$d" < "$e" || "$d" == "$e" ]]; do
  [[ $(date +%a -d "$d") == "$w" ]] && printf '{{workshop-slot\n| date   = %s\n| skip   = no\n| topic  = \n| person = \n| email  = \n}}\n' "$d"
  d=$(date -I -d "$d+1day")
done