On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, if you joined the MediaWiki / Wikimedia tech community in 2010 or > later please consider taking this survey: > > Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities > https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151&lang=en > > The survey is open for sporadic contributors or full time Wikimedia > employees, developers or any other profile. Anybody is welcome to > leave their feedback as long as you have started contributing to this > community in the past 3 years. > > 11 mature and well established open source projects are taking part in > this survey: Debian, FreeBSD, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, NetBSD, > OpenSUSE, Python, Ubuntu and Wikimedia. Some of them started some days > ago and have more than hundred responses by now. The data of this > survey is anonymous and will be released under a ‘share-alike’ Open > Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). > > Some background: > > From Kevin Carillo, the researcher: > http://kevincarillo.org/survey-invitation/ > > From OpenHatch, a non-profit working on the bridge between free > software projects and new contributors: > https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/a-research-project-to-understand-what-does-it-take-to-retain-newcomers/ > > > PLEA > If you, like me, became a bit tired of survey requests like this > please consider filling this one anyway. It focuses in a specific area > where we don't have much data. As fresh technical contributor > coordinator at the WMF I'm looking forward to the results of this > research and the lessons it will bring. > > Thank you. :) > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Hmm, some of the questions were a little unclear - talking about the Wikimedia community, but Wikimedia (as a whole) is not a FOSS project. I became a developer roughly 3 years ago. I've been a member of Wikimedia land since roughly 2005. Similarly, does being a gsoc participant count as being paid to work on MediaWiki - after all gsoc students do get money for doing MediaWiki things, etc. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
