#Research Questions version 0.1.0
The process of writing the original article was structured as a test a number of research questions which are evaluated in this article, namely:
- can a group of academic authors can come together using the GitHub platform to collaboratively write an academic article that is successfully submitted to and accepted by a reputable peer-reviewed journal of the group's choosing,
- can discussions amongst the group members can be accommodated entirely on the GitHub platform (i.e., the repo's wiki, issues and pull requests),
- can the article can be written in under 2 months from the date that it is publicly deployed to the date it is submitted to a journal,
- GitHub's network metrics (e.g., pulse, graphs, network) in combination with the evaluation of the participating group members can be used to determine authorship,
- does the opportunity to be listed as an author will provide sufficient incentive for potential authors to contribute,
- can group decisions, including changing any of the "rules of the game", can be made by the members of the group using principles of consensus decision-making.
An evaluation of these research questions in light of this experiment will be the subject of a subsequent article using the same process used to write this article.