Re: Open Source Organizational Culture
Hi all, This is a good initiative to do regularly (e.g. yearly or bi-yearly), and it should be sponsored/guided by this project/community. It could/will help the ASF (specifically those involved in community building) to pinpoint which projects operate successfully (in the spirit of the Apache Foundation) and which should be offered assistance to improve. But it should be communicated to all within all projects. Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM http://www.orrtiz.com* Services Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Storm-Olsen, Marius marius.storm-ol...@student.bi.no wrote: On 5/2/2014 3:21 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 22/04/2014 Storm-Olsen, Marius wrote: 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. ... http://bit.ly/OSOCAS2014 ... I believe that, for once, we have a survey that can be useful to the projects and not only to the student. We can even check with numbers whether our Community over code mantra is really perceived as such by contributors and whether it is considered an indicator for future success. Please extend your deadline by two weeks, send the survey link to d...@openoffice.apache.org and I'll endorse your request. I encourage others to take your survey too (link above) and to consider advertising the survey on the dev lists of other projects if they find it equally interesting. Hi Andrea, Thank you for getting back to me, I appreciate your time and effort. I will extend the deadline until May 15th, and send the request to the OpenOffice Dev list ASAP. Sincerely, Marius Storm-Olsen
Re: Open Source Organizational Culture
On 22/04/2014 Storm-Olsen, Marius wrote: 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. ... http://bit.ly/OSOCAS2014 Hello Marius, it seems we didn't manage to answer you so far, and your deadline is today... So I'll jump in. Well, as chair of the Apache OpenOffice project, one of the most researched open source projects in history, I answer surveys aimed at analyzing correlations between free/open source software and anything (from politics to sports, from society to religion) almost every weekend, and I decided to stop. Still, I gave a chance to your survey, and I found it unusually interesting. It is a survey that I would really like to be taken by all the OpenOffice volunteers, and by volunteers from all Apache projects in general. It focuses on four simple indicators (something like: community, innovation, competition, stability) and it asks everyone to evaluate the status of the project now and the ideal status of the project in 5 years according to these indicators, seen from multiple points of view (individual contributor, management...). I believe that, for once, we have a survey that can be useful to the projects and not only to the student. We can even check with numbers whether our Community over code mantra is really perceived as such by contributors and whether it is considered an indicator for future success. Please extend your deadline by two weeks, send the survey link to d...@openoffice.apache.org and I'll endorse your request. I encourage others to take your survey too (link above) and to consider advertising the survey on the dev lists of other projects if they find it equally interesting. Regards, Andrea.
Open Source Organizational Culture
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
