Editing CommunityData:Ecology MGMT

Next meeting: Tuesday 2019-12-10 10:00am PST / 12:00pm CST

== Reading for 2020-02-07 ==
  Monge, Peter, and Marshall Scott Poole. “The Evolution of Organizational Communication.” Journal of Communication 58, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 679–92. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2008.00408.x.

== Reading for 2020-01-31 == 

Margolin, D. B., Shen, C., Lee, S., Weber, M. S., Fulk, J., &
                     Monge, P. (2015). Normative Influences on Network Structure in the
                     Evolution of the Children’s Rights NGO Network, 1977-2004. Communication
                     Research, 42(1), 30–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650212463731

== Readings for 2019-12-10 == 

Carroll, G. R., & Swaminathan, A. (2000). Why the microbrewery movement? Organizational dynamics of resource partitioning in the U.S. brewing industry. American Journal of Sociology, 106(3), 715–762. [https://doi.org/10.1086/318962]
  
Also at [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/318962]


Odling-Smee, F. J., Erwin, D. H., Palkovacs, E. P., Feldman, M. W., & Laland, K. N. (2013). Niche construction theory: A practical guide for ecologists. The Quarterly Review of Biology,88(1), 3–28. [https://doi.org/10.1086/669266]

Also at [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/669266]


== Ecology grant meeting: 2019-11-18 ==

Attendees: Regina, Nate, Jeremy, Jim, Charlie, Mako, Aaron

=== Meeting agenda/items ===
* Jmads (Zooniverse Update)
** Jim will take a few weeks to try to wrap up this project
** Next step is creating revised analysis w expanded data. Jmads aims to do this in the coming week.
** With revised analysis, goal will be to set a timeline/agenda for revision/submission.
* Jeremy (ABM)
** See: https://wiki.communitydata.science/CommunityData:Exposure_and_Participation_Processes
*** Some discussion posted to the talk page...
** How to resolve questions posed on that page as we prepare this for submission?
** How to deal with the free parameters fitting elephant critique?
** Comments
*** Moving toward something like gini coefficient (or a parametric model)?
*** It may be better to look at just one level (community size distribution)
* Blogpost draft (everyone make a pass by Wednesday mid-day)
** https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/cdsc_ecology_blogpost
** Aaron will move into wordpress draft ahead of Thursday group meeting. Plan to publish Thursday afternoon/Friday morning

=== Setting an agenda for next time ===
Next meeting is the Tuesday the 26th
* Let's read Hannan and Freeman '77. Make sure it's in zotero.
* Create a new collection for ecology stuff (Nate). 
** See Zotero.
* Email the notes to everyone (Aaron).


== Next steps for the grant as a whole: ==
# Collect/share/check-in on in-progress work related to this grant
# Collect projects or project ideas that are good and that fall in here. 
:* E.g. Production functions
:*Other projects in Nate's diss proposal that aren't in the grant. 
# Brainstorm, discuss project ideas that aren't in the grant (esp folks not involved in writing the proposal)
#Identify next projects to pursue, assign/volunteer responsibilities

== TODO list ==
[X] Share the grant proposal with everyone (Mako): mako.cc/academic [grants section]

[X] Read the grant proposal and prepare to discuss (everyone)

[X] Create a wiki page w link to git, grant proposal, brief description, etc.(Nate)

[ ] Put all the dates on the calendar (Nate)

[X] Draft a blogpost about the grant (Nate and Mako and Aaron and Jeremy)

[ ] Discuss project plans, opportunities for collaboration w adjacent folks (Mako and Aaron)

[X] Circulate notes and plan for next meeting (Aaron and Nate)

[ ] Add personnel and project descriptions to the wiki pages. 

[ ] Circulate Change.org draft (Nate)

[ ] Create cdsc-ecology mailing list (Mako)

== Agenda for next meeting ==
* Discuss Hannan and Freeman, 1977 (see Zotero for link)