I would recommend sending the email to committers@a.o, but be aware that Apache participants, due to our visible spot in the open source ecosystem, get a *lot* of surveys and tend to ignore most of them.
-- Rich Bowen, mobile edition rbo...@rcbowen.com On Apr 22, 2014 10:02 AM, "Storm-Olsen, Marius" < marius.storm-ol...@student.bi.no> wrote: > > Hi, > > As part of the research into a thesis on Open Source Organizational > Culture, I want to send out a short survey to the Apache organization. > However, given that the Apache community is so large, with numerous > individual projects under its umbrella, I wanted to check with the > community list first; both to seek explicit permission for doing so, and to > figure out what would be the best way to send out such a survey without > "spamming" the community. > > The survey is short (10-15 minutes), and the results - with raw but > anonymized data - will be public, and available to the whole Open Source > community. The larger the participation, the more statistically relevant > data, and the better we can interpret the results across OSS as a whole. > > I have included the email I would want to send out below, for your > consideration. > > Sincerely, > Marius Storm-Olsen > > ------ > > Hi, > > I would like to request your participation in a survey on > Open Source Organizational Culture, > which will provide valuable insight into how Open Source projects are run, > how their participants act, how they might change going forward, and how > particular Open Source projects compare with one another and with > traditional business cultures. The survey will take 10-15 minutes to > complete. > > http://bit.ly/OSOCAS2014 > > > Why? > ---- > The survey will be used as part of my thesis on Open Source Organizational > Culture at BI Norwegian Business School (www.bi.no/en, or www.bi.edu), > but in true Open Source spirit the raw - but anonymized - results will be > open for all. So, your Open Source project will be able to massage and > dissect the results any way you wish, and see how you compare with other > projects out there. > > Up until now, most research in Open Source culture has been based on > mining mailing lists to find out how people act, who they interact with, > and how projects organize themselves. > > In this research we would rather ask the participants directly about how a > project is managed and what should change for the project to be > spectacularly successful. > > When? > ----- > > The survey is open now through May 1st. > > Where? > ------ > > The bit.ly address brings you to the following survey > > https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1587798/osocas-2014 > > Remember that you can save your progress at any time and come back to the > survey at a later point when you have time to finish it. > > Who are you? > ------------ > My name is Marius Storm-Olsen, and I am currently working on a thesis on > Open Source Organizational Culture. I've been an active part of Open Source > for years, most notably on the Qt and Git projects. Although I have my own > experiences to draw on in the thesis, they do not qualify for the Open > Source community at large, hence the survey. > > How to help? > ------------ > If you want to help, feel free to forward this email to any Open Source > project you would want to participate the survey. Once you have send the > invitation, please either send me an email with the name of the project, or > update the table shown on > > https://github.com/mstormo/OSOCAS/wiki > > > I do hope you can participate, and thank you for your consideration! > > > Best regards, > Marius Storm-Olsen > >
