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Personal Networks, Biographical Experiences And Professional DecisionBehrmann, LauraPoster SessionEgocentic Networks, Education, Embeddedness, teachers’ social networkSAT.PM3Professional actions and decisions of teachers have a great impact concerning educational and occupational careers of their students. However, little is knownon what these decisions are based on. This study focuses on the beliefs and interpretations which determine the actions of teachers. What are their ideas andconceptions of school, performance and success? Therefore special interest is put on the context of these beliefs: How important is the social embeddednessof teachers? What is the role of their social origin (working or middle class background), their social network as well as their personal relationships (i.e. family,friends and acquaintances) concerning their image of school, performance and success? Consequently focus is put on how teachers are affected by theirbiographical experiences and system specific socialization. Using narrative interviews egocentric network cards of twenty East and West German teachers werecollected. This poster presents first results on how the conception of their task as teacher is linked to their personal network.Personal Values, Work Activities, And Collaboration Networks In The Fedora ProjectCummings, Jonathon N.; O’Driscoll, TonyCollaboration, coordination and cooperationCollaboration, Coordination, Community, Collaboration Network, Tie MeasuresFRI.PM2We explored the impact of personal values and work activities on collaboration networks in the Fedora Project, which is an open source community devoted todeveloping a linux‐based operating system. Participants in the Fedora Project engage in work activities such as contributing code, fixing bugs, maintainingpackages, and writing documentation. To better understand participation in the community, we conducted initial interviews with 18 participants. Theseinterviews revealed significant variation in the personal values relevant to their participation (e.g., communication, accountability, governance, recognition) aswell as significant variation in the nature of the work activities that characterize their participation (e.g., duration, effort, novelty, complexity). In a web‐basedsurvey of 287 participants in the Fedora Project, we also found that the level of collaboration with other participants varied significantly (e.g., only 127, or 44%,of these participants reported collaborating with others on their work activities). For the 127 participants who reported collaborating with others, we collectedego network data on the content of their collaborative relationships (task interdependence, knowledge seeking, and socializing), which resulted in dyadic dataon 495 ties (an average of 3.9 ties per participant who collaborated with at least one other person). In preliminary analyses, we found that personal values andwork activities were both associated with the likelihood of collaborating with other participants as well as the content of their collaborative relationships. As awhole, we highlight how variation within individuals (as reflected in personal values) and variation within the social context (as reflected in work activities)shape the collaboration networks of participants in the community.