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Two-minute(!)-survey on motivation and free time contribution of open source developers

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stefankullack@web.de via surveymonkey.com
2014-08-22 19:33:39 UTC (over 9 years ago)

Two-minute(!)-survey on motivation and free time contribution of open source developers

Dear all,

for a university research project at the Technical University Berlin (Germany) I would like to gather some original input from open source software developers. I kept the length of the survey to an absolute minimum!!!

It would be fantastic if you could spend two minutes on three simple questions!

Here is the link to the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=sm1HkzrisXKbw2EQMKdG7Q_3d_3d

I highly appreciate the time you take for filling it out!

Best regards,

Stefan Kullack

Master student of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at TU Berlin

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Simon Budig
2014-08-22 20:38:28 UTC (over 9 years ago)

Two-minute(!)-survey on motivation and free time contribution of open source developers

stefankullack@web.de via surveymonkey.com (member@surveymonkey.com) wrote:

for a university research project at the Technical University Berlin (Germany) I would like to gather some original input from open source software developers. I kept the length of the survey to an absolute minimum!!!

What is the actual goal of your survey? What is the benefit to me when I invest my time?

Master student of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at TU Berlin

This really triggers "how about no?" reflexes.

Bye, Simon

simon@budig.de              http://simon.budig.de/
Alexandre Prokoudine
2014-08-22 21:05:27 UTC (over 9 years ago)

Two-minute(!)-survey on motivation and free time contribution of open source developers

22 авг. 2014 г. 23:54 пользователь "stefankullack@web.de via surveymonkey.com" написал:

Dear all,

for a university research project at the Technical University Berlin

(Germany) I would like to gather some original input from open source software developers. I kept the length of the survey to an absolute minimum!!!

It would be fantastic if you could spend two minutes on three simple

questions!

Here is the link to the survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=sm1HkzrisXKbw2EQMKdG7Q_3d_3d

"*Vielen Dank für Ihre Teilnahme an der **Umfrage*"

My German is rather rusty, but even I can tell this is the wrong link.

Also, how is your research any different from tons of researches on motivation in free software projects, and how is the bit about just three questions going to sell the idea that this is something serious? It's not a trick question, I'm genuinely puzzled.

Alex

Jehan Pagès
2014-08-23 10:49:47 UTC (over 9 years ago)

Two-minute(!)-survey on motivation and free time contribution of open source developers

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:33 PM, stefankullack@web.de via surveymonkey.com wrote:

Dear all,

for a university research project at the Technical University Berlin (Germany) I would like to gather some original input from open source software developers. I kept the length of the survey to an absolute minimum!!!

It would be fantastic if you could spend two minutes on three simple questions!

Here is the link to the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=sm1HkzrisXKbw2EQMKdG7Q_3d_3d

I highly appreciate the time you take for filling it out!

I think the real problem is that we receive many enquiries like this every year on this mailing list, asking us to fill out some survey for some "research". But we are never told what this is really about. Also once we filled it out, the student never share with us any "result" of the research (even though they even sometimes promise us from the start they will send us the outcome of the research), and usually they massively send emails to many projects but don't even bother making any individual answer when the project contributors email back the student to ask for more info about what this is about (like our emails! Let's see if we'll get any answer!).

So I am like the others here, I tend not to fill out any such survey anymore.

Jehan

Best regards,

Stefan Kullack

Master student of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at TU Berlin

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