Hi, My name is Kevin Carillo and I am a PhD student at the School of Information Management of Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).
I am currently running a survey that aims at studying how the experience of a Perl community newcomer has an influence on this person's actions and project contributions in the community. I have already talked to Kieren Diment (who ran the Perl survey: http://survey.perlfoundation.org) and some of the Perl Foundation board. They have all been keen to help and supportive. The survey targets contributors to Perl sub-projects endorsed by the Perl Foundation and who joined Perl within the last 2 years. Would you mind letting anyone you think is eligible know about the survey? (I have attached a survey information sheet that you may pass around). Could you also recommend other suitable places I could send the invitation to? I have written a post about the research project on blogs.perl.org that can be found at: http://blogs.perl.org/users/kevin_carillo/2012/10/newcomer-experience-and-contributor-behavior-in-perl-and-other-foss-communities---survey.html This survey is anonymous, and no information is used to identify participants. The Human Ethics Committee of the School of Information Management has approved this research project. I expect the survey to take around 20 minutes. Thank you, Kevin Carillo School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600, Wellington NEW ZEALAND (04) 463 5233 ext. 8679 | Room RH401 kevin.cari...@sim.vuw.ac.nz http://kevincarillo.org/
