During 2012-15 a number of participants registered at the SSI website to signify their interest in building a global SSI community. These included:
- William Aspray, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Diane Bailey, UT Austin School of Information
- Geoffrey Bowker, University of California at Irvine
- Pablo Boczkowski, Northwestern University
- Michael Castelle , University of Chicago,
- Paul Ceruzzi, Smithsonian Institute
- Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri, University of Calcutta
- Nicole Cooke, The iSchool at Illinois
- James Cortada, University of Minnesota
- Paul Edwards, University of Michigan School of Information
- Ingrid Erickson, Rutgers University
- Ken Fleischmann, University of Texas at Austin
- Patricia Galloway, University of Texas at Austin
- Tarleton Gillespie, Microsoft Research
- Josh Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Elysia Guzik, University of Toronto
- Jutta Haider, Lund University
- Maria Haigh, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Jenna Hartel, University of Toronto
- Eva Hourihan Jansen, University of Toronto
- Sharon Irish, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Steven Jackson,Cornell University
- Mohamamd Hossein Jarrahi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Patrick Keilty, University of Toronto
- Emily Knox, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Nadine Kozak, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Lai Ma, University College Dublin
- Eden Medina, Indiana University
- Shubhanshu Mishra, iSchool at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Michael Newman, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Wilhelm Peekhaus, Univesrity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Anabel Quan-Haase, Western University
- David Ribes, Georgetown University
- Kalpana Shankar, University College, Dublin
- David Stearns, University of Washington
- Miriam Sweeney, University of Alabama
- Ella Taylor-Smith, Napier University
- Ciaran Trace, The University of Texas at Austin
- Jesus Tramullas, University of Zaragoza
- Sharon Traweek, UCLA
- Heather Wiltse, Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University
- Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee