Petra Kugler and Sebastian Sp�th are conducting academic research on our project.
As this research will contribute to a wider recognition of our efforts, I would like to invite all developers and contributors to the project to take part in the web survey that they have set up at this address: http://blogs.ifb.unisg.ch/survey/public/survey.php?name=Survey_OSS_Coordinat ion_HSQLDB A brief introduction to their work is quoted below. Fred Toussi Maintainer, HSQLDB Project ------------------------------- We are working on a large research project at the Swiss University of St. Gallen (www.unisg.ch), which aims to understand how coordination is achieved in OSS projects as a whole. We seek to find out what role the contributors' shared and individual knowledge within and between projects plays in this process. And finally, what consequences arise out of the different roles of knowledge for OSS projects in the longer run. A part of this research will be central part to a doctoral dissertation. Please be sure that our work is absolutely serious research and you might want to take a brief glance at comparable work at opensource.mit.edu. This forum for OSS researchers emerged out of a collaboration between Eric von Hippel and Karim Lakhani from MIT and our research team here in Switzerland, supervised by Georg von Krogh. We have started with an extensive analysis of Ian Clarke's Freenet project, and in the near future want to go beyond the frontiers of that project. So we came across your HSQLDB project, found it very interesting, and would be excited to take a closer look at what and how you work. Of course, we prefer doing so with your 'approval' and support, as your knowledge on the project and your voice are of greatest value! More concretely, we seek to take a closer look at for instance the email development contributions, at CVS entries, but also at who has access to the CVS at which point in time. Our work would additionally encompass a web-based survey and probably some interviews with core developers. In 'exchange' to that, we would like to offer you the knowledge we will gain during the process, which reflects a neutral and external scientific perspective to your work. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ hsqldb-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hsqldb-developers
