I was interested as well and was interviewed as part of the study yesterday. It's exactly what it says. The questions were mostly focused on the community aspect of OSM; who makes up OSM, how often you edit, personal reasons for editing, questions about in-person events, how motivations differ from commercial mapping companies, etc..
I don't know how people were selected but he referenced personal stats from http://hdyc.neis-one.org/ It was all very well done and well researched. If you have concerns you should reach out to him, he was very receptive to feedback and seems to have more aspects to this study planned outside of interviews. On Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Dave F. wrote: > Hi > > This arrived a minute ago from user SDuser92130: > > Dear OSM contributor, > > If you are at least 18 years of age and you speak English, you are > invited to take part in a brief research study pursued by faculty at a > major university in the U.S. This will involve an audio interview over > Skype that will address the OpenStreetMap community and your related > perceptions. It should take about 20 minutes. At the end of the > interview, you will be sent an electronic gift card for [the equivalent > of] €50 (fifty euros). If interested, please reply by August 4, 2014 at > 11:59pm GMT to arrange the interview details (the interview must take > place by August 7 and, as the number of available interview spots is > limited, you should reply at your earliest convenience). > > Thank you in advance for your potential participation. > > Did they obtain the email database or are the messages being sent out > one at a time to individual users? > > Dave F. > > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org (mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org) > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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