Hi,
As part of the research into a thesis on Open Source Organizational
Culture, I want to send out a short survey to the Apache organization.
However, given that the Apache community is so large, with numerous
individual projects under its umbrella, I wanted to check with the
community list first; both to seek explicit permission for doing so, and
to figure out what would be the best way to send out such a survey
without "spamming" the community.
The survey is short (10-15 minutes), and the results - with raw but
anonymized data - will be public, and available to the whole Open Source
community. The larger the participation, the more statistically relevant
data, and the better we can interpret the results across OSS as a whole.
I have included the email I would want to send out below, for your
consideration.
Sincerely,
Marius Storm-Olsen
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Hi,
I would like to request your participation in a survey on
Open Source Organizational Culture,
which will provide valuable insight into how Open Source projects are
run, how their participants act, how they might change going forward,
and how particular Open Source projects compare with one another and
with traditional business cultures. The survey will take 10-15 minutes
to complete.
http://bit.ly/OSOCAS2014
Why?
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The survey will be used as part of my thesis on Open Source
Organizational Culture at BI Norwegian Business School (www.bi.no/en, or
www.bi.edu), but in true Open Source spirit the raw - but anonymized -
results will be open for all. So, your Open Source project will be able
to massage and dissect the results any way you wish, and see how you
compare with other projects out there.
Up until now, most research in Open Source culture has been based on
mining mailing lists to find out how people act, who they interact with,
and how projects organize themselves.
In this research we would rather ask the participants directly about how
a project is managed and what should change for the project to be
spectacularly successful.
When?
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The survey is open now through May 1st.
Where?
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The bit.ly address brings you to the following survey
https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1587798/osocas-2014
Remember that you can save your progress at any time and come back to
the survey at a later point when you have time to finish it.
Who are you?
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My name is Marius Storm-Olsen, and I am currently working on a thesis on
Open Source Organizational Culture. I've been an active part of Open
Source for years, most notably on the Qt and Git projects. Although I
have my own experiences to draw on in the thesis, they do not qualify
for the Open Source community at large, hence the survey.
How to help?
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If you want to help, feel free to forward this email to any Open Source
project you would want to participate the survey. Once you have send the
invitation, please either send me an email with the name of the project,
or update the table shown on
https://github.com/mstormo/OSOCAS/wiki
I do hope you can participate, and thank you for your consideration!
Best regards,
Marius Storm-Olsen
