*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Please forward as appropriate) *** Group 2005 Workshop on: "Sustaining Community: The role and design of incentive mechanisms in online systems" At Group 05: International Conference on Supporting Group Work 6-9 November 2005, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA * THE TOPIC * What makes communities grow and prosper, or wither and die? In this workshop we'll explore this question by taking a close look at how incentive structures interact with short and long term viability. We'll address questions such as "What motivates participants to contribute?" "What social and technical mechanisms support (or deter) contribution?" and "How and to what extent can designers design sustainable communities?" * THE CONTENT * We are interested in open source communities, community-managed discussion spaces like Slashdot, social network-based communities such as Orkut, open content communities like Wikipedia, group blogs, "real world" communities, and other similar environments. * THE PARTICIPANTS * Our hope is to attract participants from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, computer science, economics, interaction design, psychology, sociology, and so on. * THE FORMAT * Our goal is to raise questions and begin answering them from the divers directions supplied by the approaches of the attendees. The workshop will be highly interactive with minimal presentation of the position papers. * TO SUBMIT * See http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/SC.html for a complete description and submission information * IMPORTANT DATES * 12 September - Position papers due 24 September - Accept/Reject decisions made 06 November - Workshop Note: The first two dates are provisional; and may change once the early registration deadline is announced. * THE ORGANIZERS * Jason Ellis, Christine Halverson, Tom Erickson IBM T. J. Watson Research Center * FOR MORE INFORMATION * - Full description and information on submission requirements see http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/SC.html - General information about the Group 2005 conference see http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/ - To contact the organizers write to group-incentives@jellis.net _______________________________________________ group-incentives mailing list group-incentives@jellis.net http://jellis.net/mailman/listinfo/group-incentives_jellis.net -- ------------------------------------------ Tom Erickson IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Email: snowfall@acm.org (preferred); snowfall@us.ibm.com(IBM confidential) http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/