Just a reminder: the official deadline for the survey about new
contributors is TOMORROW, although as late comers we will et some extra
days until the end of the month (FRIDAY).
The survey info page says that it takes 20 minutes to complete it. fwiw
I did it in rather less time.
On 11/19/2012 09:40 AM, Quim Gil 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
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