Hi! All, Seems like a useful survey to fill out. Helps in gathering facts and figures on actual opensource usage. Please fill out and if you need any more info, please contact Seema Arora directly. Email address given below:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:08:43 -0800 From: Seema Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Open-source developer survey >>Dear Mr. Bhargava: >>>>I am writing to request your help. We are researchers at Stanford >>>>University who are in particular interested in studying open-source as >>>>an alternative way of producing software. To that end, we have designed >>>>a survey that aims to understand motivations and organizational aspects >>>>of open-source. Could we please request you to post the announcement >>>>below in the linux-bangalore user groups so that developers can fill >>>>our survey and help us better understand how open-source works. This >>>>survey has been translated into several foreign languages so that we >>>>can attract a diversity of responses from across the globe. I am >>>>including 2 announcements that relate to the survey and you could post >>>>either in the user groups. >>>> >>>>I would be most grateful for advise regarding other sites or names I >>>>could approach in order to attract a large number of respondents from India. >>>>Best >>>>Seema >> >>An introduction to the survey may be accessed via the link below >> >> >>>>http://siepr.stanford.edu/programs/OpenSoftware_David/FLOSS-US_announcement.htm >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>SHORT ANNOUNCEMENT >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>The Free/Libre/Open Source Software Survey for 2003 >>>> >>>>http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>FLOSS-US is an online survey of Open Source/Free Software developers >>>>currently being conducted by researchers at Stanford University's >>>>Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), supported by a grant from >>>>the National Science Foundation. This survey has been designed to >>>>complement the FLOSS survey for 2002 of Open Source/Free Software >>>>developer >>>>communities sponsored by the European Commission. >>>> >>>>FLOSS-US asks questions on some of the topics addressed by the original >>>>FLOSS survey, plus questions on several other important issues, >>>>including open source developers' motivations and expectations, usage of >>>>licenses and programming tools, individuals' contributions to projects, >>>>and support by proprietary software firms. >>>> >>>>If you are an Open Source/Free Software developer, please click here to >>>>fill out the questionnaire. We greatly appreciate your viewpoints >>>>and your responses to our survey questions. ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
