In this paper, we describe our efforts in the deliberate creation of audcommunity of practice of researchers in computer science educationud(CSEd). We understand community of practice in the sense inudwhich Wenger describes it, whereby the community is characterizedudby mutual engagement in a joint enterprise that gives rise to audshared repertoire of knowledge, artefacts, and practices.udWe first identify CSEd as a research field in which no sharedudparadigm exists, and then we describe the Bootstrapping project,udits metaphor, structure, rationale, and delivery, as designed to createuda community of practice of CSEd researchers. Features ofudother projects are also outlined that have similar aims of capacityudbuilding in disciplinary-specific pedagogic enquiry. A theoreticallyudderived framework for evaluating the success of endeavours ofudthis type is then presented, and we report the results from anudempirical study. We conclude with four open questions for ourudproject and others like it: Where is the locus of a community ofudpractice? Who are the core members? Do capacity-building modelsudtransfer to other disciplines? Can our theoretically motivatedudmeasures of success apply to other projects of the same nature?
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