I appreciate that, and fully understand the demand on all the contributors, as I track Git and Qt development myself.
Hopefully the openness and access to the raw results across many different OSS projects will entice a few to do the survey. Thanks Rich, appreciate your time! -- .marius On 4/22/2014 10:36 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > 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 <mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com> > > On Apr 22, 2014 10:02 AM, "Storm-Olsen, Marius" > <marius.storm-ol...@student.bi.no > <mailto: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 > <http://www.bi.no/en>, or www.bi.edu <http://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 <http://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 >