*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Please forward as appropriate) *** CC&T Workshop on: "Sustaining Community: The role and design of incentive mechanisms in online systems" At the 2nd International Conference on Communities and Technologies 13-16 June 2005, Milano, Italy * 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.cct2005.disco.unimib.it/Workshop-H.htm for a complete description and submission information * IMPORTANT DATES * 08 April - Position papers due 22 April - Accept/Reject decisions made 13 May - Early registration deadline 13 June - Workshop * THE ORGANIZERS Jason Ellis, Christine Halverson, Tom Erickson IBM T. J. Watson Research Center * FOR MORE INFORMATION * - For the full description and information on submission requirements see http://www.cct2005.disco.unimib.it/Workshop-H.htm - For general information about the CC&T conference see http://www.cct2005.disco.unimib.it/ - To contact the organizers write to ct-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/