Re: [tlug] Open Source Developers and Users Survey

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 02/07/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> Josh Glover writes:
>
>  > A chap from the Irish Linux Users Group (ILUG) is writing a Masters
>  > thesis on Open Source development, and he has whipped up a survey:
>
> Meaningless data from unreliable sources which will undoubtedly be
> filtered through the author's biases to arrive at a foregone
> conclusion.  *sigh*

I hope this is not one of those. This guy has been on the list for a
while, and is an advanced user himself (I cannae tell whether he is a
developer), so hopefully his paper will be less masturbatory than you
fear.

> Having expressed *my* biases, I will go take a look.  However, people
> writing theses on open source development by pestering devel lists
> with requests to fill out their surveys are becoming a plague.  This
> is a trend that should be discouraged if at all possible.

Agreed. But advertising these surveys on Linux *Users* Group lists
seems to be a good fit, especially when you are as interested in
hearing from users as you are in developers.

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Cheers,
Josh