Free Software Development as Observant Participation
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Covers the development of textnets, a Python package that models collections of texts as networks of documents and words, including a brief demonstration of its features. Describes practical engineering work—version control, package managers, CI testing, dependency management and cross-platform packaging—and reflects on using participatory research (observant participation) to learn about free/open source software culture, norms, and related practices.
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