There
is a PhD student in Boston doing research on what motivates fee and open source
communities. If you have a few minutes it would be great if you could provide
your perspective.
--Mary
Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:35 am
(PDT)
Perhaps
some of you can help spread the word:
For wide distribution
I'm a PhD student in public policy at UMass Boston doing research on what
motivates members of free and open source software communities.
I'm looking at ways that public policy could increase the quantity and quality
of contributions to free software and open source software (defined as projects
with an approved open source license - http://opensource.org/).
I have a professor that says if I can provide some convincing data on how to
best support free and open source software, he thinks he can get the ideas on
President Obama's desk. I am conducting a survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=SA1BorCQ_2b9E6NSE_2bNCKavw_3d_3d
and I need over 500 responses by May 1st in order to answer my key research
questions.
One lucky respondent will have $100 donated to the FOSS project of their
choice.
Questions about this survey can be directed to me at felicia.sullivan@xxxxxxx.
Thanks for your input.
Acknowledgement
I want to thank my FOSS developer go-to-guys -- Dan MacNeil, Peter Bull,
St?phane Alnet, and Bill de la Vega -- for providing critical feedback on this
survey.
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