Hey Quim I also sent you this survey a week ago with the question whether we should participate :) D
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, sorry for cross-replying. > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Lydia Pintscher > <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Marcin Cieslak <sa...@saper.info> > wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Kevin Carillo[1] from University of Wellington is going to research > >> "Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities[2] > >> So far Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, OpenSUSE > >> will be taken into account, and FreeBSD recently joined[3] and > >> there is still some possibility for other large FOSS projects to join. > >> > >> I think it could fit nicely into our recent efforts directed > >> at newcomer experience after Git migration. And MediaWiki is > >> a bit different than above projects. > >> > >> Are we interested > >> to include MediaWiki in that research? > >> > >> As Kevin explains in his post he tried to avoid spamming mailing > >> lists to look for project interested, so I am doing this for him :-) > >> > >> //Saper > > > > I've worked with Kevin in preparation for his survey and later > > promotion from the KDE-side quite a bit. This is not the kind of > > research project that is of no value to the project taking part. I > > expect the results to be very useful for KDE (and likely also the > > other projects taking part). > > It turns out that Sumana and me have been in touch with Kevin in the > past days after Asheesh Laroia proposed directly to include Wikimedia > in this research. > > Said and done, Wikimedia is also included in the survey and you are > encouraged to invest some minutes in it: > > https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151 > > I will send a proper announcement next Monday, but in the meantime > here is an illustrative link of links: > > http://kevincarillo.org/2012/11/15/survey-update-after-1-week/ > > -- > Quim > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
