A workshop on: Ethnographies of Code Computer Programs as the Lived Work of Computer Programming Infolab21, Lancaster University, UK 30-31 March 2006

Selected papers have been published in issue two of TeamEthno-online. Keynote Speakers Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster University) Global system awareness in code-like situations Tom Rodden (University of Nottingham) From understanding digital work to uncovering the social in ubiquitous environments Papers Dave Martin and John Rooksby (Lancaster University) Knowledge and reasoning about code Monika Büscher (Lancaster University), Jesper Wolff Olsen and Michael Christensen (Aarhus University) Code Work: “But why? I wanna know why!” Steinar Kristoffersen (University of Oslo) Designing a program. Programming the design Christian Greiffenhagen and Wes Sharrock (University of Manchester) The lived work of formal mathematical reasoning Barry Brown (University of Glasgow) Some unexcavated aspects of computer programming Stuart Reeves (University of Nottingham) The code document’s structure and analysis Julia Prior, Toni Robertson, John Leaney (University of Technology, Sydney) Programming infrastructure and code production: An ethnographic study Catalina Danis (IBM TJ Watson Research Center) Casual and team collaboration in high performance computing Sebastian Jekutsch (Freie Universität Berlin) An annotation scheme to support analysis of programming activities Frank Schlesinger and Sebastian Jekutsch (Freie Universität Berlin) ElectroCodeoGram: An environment for studying programming Marjahan Begum, Dave Elliman and Colin Higgins (University of Nottingham) Strategies of novice programmers Gabriele Gramelsberger (Free University, Berlin) Story telling with code: Archaeology of climate modelling Morana Alac (University of California San Diego) On robot infrastructure Philippe Rouchy (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Aspects of PROLOG history: Logic programming and professional dynamics Christophe Lejeune (University of Technology in Troyes) Symlinks as boundary objects. An ethnomethodological case study of code Chris Douce (Independent) Peer programming: Shared programming resources and how they might be used to understand the activity of programming Position Papers Carey Jewitt (London Knowledge Lab) Ethnographies of programming: position paper Robert Schmidt (Freie Universität Berlin) Software engineering as ensemble of cultural-social practices Chris Hinds, Ondrej Mates, Marina Jirotka (Oxford University) Ethnographies of code: Coordination between pairs in agile pair programming S. Bryant, P. Romero and B du Boulay (University of Sussex) Unpicking the pair programming process Elin R Pedersen (Microsoft) Position paper Daniel Ashton (Lancaster University) Values in design and politics and programming made ordinary Ian Martin (Manchester Metropolitan University Business School) Craft tradition in the history of computer programming 1974 - 2004 Allen Higgins (University College Dublin) Software development in progress, practiced innovation Organisers Dave Martin (Lancaster University) John Rooksby (Lancaster University) With Thanks To Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University) Ian Sommerville (Lancaster University) Aimee Edwards (Lancaster University) Helen Metcalfe (Lancaster University) Mark Hartswood (University of Edinburgh) We also thank the Lancaster University Faculty of Science and Technolgy for funding the workshop travel awards.