I feel like everything about this has been stated twice, can we please stop with that thread?
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Magdalen Berns <m.be...@thismagpie.com> wrote: > > > > >> > > >> > > > [...] >> > > > It seems proportionate to try to seek compelling evidence to >> support the >> > > > hypothesis that this is a problem but also that the suggested >> solution >> > > will >> > > > address that problem in a representative way. >> > > >> > > Please, go ahead, collect the evidence and present it here. >> > >> > I am going to need cooperation with getting access to all the relevant >> > data, but I am happy to proceed on the basis that I get that. This can >> be >> > taken forward, as far as I am concerned. >> >> What is the relevant data that is not already public? > > >> The list of interns is interns is public, the same as the period of >> internships, commit logs, bug reports, mailing list discussions. > > >> People who stayed involved should have activity after their internship >> finished it. >> > > Looking at that alone would bias the result. Off the top of my head, these > data would need to be compared to the data of sponsored/paid employees > contributing to GNOME since 2005 and that data assessed against how > foundation applications have been handled each year and member engagement > post acceptance/rejection of foundation memberships too. Taking all the > associated errors into account and doing this should help give a fairly > comprehensive overview of the situation and help us determine whether our > assumptions on perceived differences between the motivations of those who > are paid for shorter period of time than those who are paid for longer > periods of time, are justified. > > At the moment we have no reason to assume that all volunteers and > sponsored contributors alike will have a 100% commitment rate and there is > certainly no reason to assume that any paid contributor is any more likely > than any other paid contributor to stay committed to GNOME contributing > once there is no financial incentive to do that, without evidence to > support that theory. > > In other words, an early objective would be to determine whether interns > are more likely to lose interest than other kinds of contributors when they > are no longer being offered a financial incentive by comparing contribution > behaviours between interns and other kinds of contributors. > > Magdalen > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > >
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