I know it is a bit late in the game but. I wonder if there are other more technical people like myself on here going to Montreal this year for the AoIR conference who could help me give a hands on workshop in web/social media scrapping. I am thinking of training a few folks to use R which is open source and free to use (www.r-project.org). I would prepare some R code for this and also show folks how to research other R code or web scrapping examples they would then have the know how to modify themselves. The idea would be that leaving this workshop any person could use R to web scrap what they want using http or API call methods. They would come away with a solid understanding of how data could pass over the Internet to research databases and how they would can fine tune the data filters choices etc.. The participants would exit of course with know how to learn more techniques and share their knowledge and run similar workshops. Of course some other team could run a workshop on the ethics of web scrapping too as there has been some debate of this recently here on the list. Peter Peter Timusk I do not speak for my employer or associations that I belong to, or volunteer with unless otherwise noted. Preconference workshops: Workshops may be either half or full-day events that occur on the first day of the conference and focus on a particular topic. They may be a workshop of some kind (e.g., a publishing workshop), a methodological "bootcamp" (e.g., on ethnography or statistical analysis), an exploration of a theoretical tradition or topical area (e.g., symbolic interaction, political economy, or GIS) or anything else that may be of interest to conference delegates. Proposals for workshops should explain for a general scholarly audience the goals of the workshop, the way it will operate, and an indication of potential audience or attendees who may be interested in attending (such as "early career scholars" or "researchers using statistical analysis"). Proposals for workshops should be approximately 600-800 words in length (to be submitted as an "abstract" in the ConfTool Website: no separate document needs to be uploaded). They should name the facilitators and participants and are only single-blind peer-reviewed; the quality and expertise of the facilitators and other participants will be recognized in the assessment. The availability of individuals named as facilitators and panellists in workshop sessions must be confirmed by the time the proposal is submitted. Workshop proposals should indicate any special requirements, including especially any upper limits on the number of participants. Workshop Submission Deadline: 1 March 2018