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[linuxiran] Fwd: [PRC] Survey for Free Software/Open Source developers... (attn: India) |
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Sun, 4 May 2003 08:39:45 +0430 |
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Subject: [PRC] Survey for Free Software/Open Source developers... (attn:
India)
Date: Saturday 03 May 2003 13:46
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: Seema Arora <address@hidden>
URL :
http://siepr.stanford.edu/programs/OpenSoftware_David/FLOSS-US_announcement.
htm
FLOSS-US
The Free/Libre/Open Source Software Survey for 2003
[1]http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft
A Survey of Software Developers
FLOSS-US is an online survey currently being conducted by researchers
at Stanford University's Stanford Institute for Economic Policy
Research (SIEPR). It is a part of the study of the Economic
Organization and Viability of Open Source Software undertaken by
SIEPR's Knowledge, Networks and Information for Innovation Program
(KNIIP) which is being supported by a grant from the National Science
Foundation.
This survey has been designed in cooperation with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
(MERIT and Infonomics, University of Maastricht), who led the FLOSS
survey of Open Source/Free Software developer communities, carried out
with the sponsorship of the European Commission during 2002.
[[2]http://floss1.infonomics.nl]
To establish comparability with the previous sample of voluntary
respondents, FLOSS-US asks questions on the same range of topics that
the original FLOSS survey addressed, including:
Motivation: monetary / non-monetary, reputation, pleasure,
creativity, jobs
Expectations: what do you expect of others? What do they
expect of you?
Organization: efficiency, quality, comparison with
commercial software
Law: intellectual property licenses, authorship, public
domain
Technology: preferred programming tools
In addition, developers are invited to provide information about their
experiences and opinions on several other issues, such as: extent and
intensity of OS/FS activities and project roles; relationships with
commercial enterprises based on Free/Libre/Open Source software;
support of OS/FS projects by proprietary software firms.
Announcements of this new online survey will be posted in languages
other than English, and at sites likely to be visited by developers in
regions outside as well as within western Europe and North America.
We will make public tabulated responses for each of the questions as
soon as the survey period is closed, and the results of our further
analyses will also be published on the SIEPR/KNIIP website. We are
committed to protecting respondents' privacy: no personal identifiers
will be stored with your answers and responses will be reported in
aggregates that will prevent inferences about individual identities.
If you are an Open Source/Free Software developer, please assist this
research: go to the questionnaire at
[3]http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft
and fill it out!
At the end of the questionnaire you will find links to to the
SIEPR/KNIIP website and further information about our project. When
you have submitted your response there will be an opportunity to
comment on the questionnaire itself, and to request any of the
publications that will be based upon analyses of the survey data.
References
1. http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft
2. http://floss1.infonomics.nl/
3. http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft
Knowlege is power... share it equitably!
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