On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> > I don't know which "OSM board" but the OSMF board certainly didn't. The > contrary is the case: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/**user_blocks/369<http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/369> > I think it is time to follow this up with the student's superiors. I think it is *also* time to create a supportable sustainable strategy for future researchers or grad students. While padeshahekhoban's survey was poorly designed, the next one could be better. A great first step could be collecting demographic information on mappers: Birth year ________ [make public] [share in aggregate with researchers only] [share with OSM admins & researchers] Gender ________ [make public] [share in aggregate with researchers only] [share with OSM admins & researchers] Employment Status [prisoner, pensioner, student, employed____hours] A second step then could be taken: granting question access to well designed surveys under a well defined set of rules. Such surveys would be "official", and come from an administrative account, and be sent to a * representative* sample of mappers. A base criteria should be knowing who the asker is. User padeshahekhoban school, adviser, and research project were not identified. We can't even necessarily contact his adviser.
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