After having adjusted the PhD project proposal, I started organising the approach to the field. Namely, start following the BfW community and interacting with its users and developers. While I still have some items in my todo list concerning the beginnning of my empirical research (e.g. contacting some mailing list admins, deciding which area of the community to tackle first…), I realised that some technical problems need to be solved ASAP.
I mainly work from my University, but the proxy and the configuration/policies of the University network causes me two problems.