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| Michaël Vicente 2005-07-01, 5:58 pm |
| Hello,
We are a team of researchers from the ENST (an engineering school of=20
telecommunication in Paris), and we are doing a sociological survey on=20
Debian in order to better understand the Debian community.
After a qualitative study and several interviews with French developers, we=
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want to extend this study to the whole community by sending a questionnaire.
Answering to the following questionnaire will take about 15 minutes and=20
will be very helpful to us.
Click here <http://www.enst.fr/egsh/debian>www.enst.fr/egsh/debian to=20
access to the questionnaire.
Thank you very much for your participation.
Micha=EBl Vicente.
ENST ( Telecom Paris).
Dept E.G.S.H
46 rue Barrault
F-75634 Paris Cedex 13
Michael.vicente@enst.fr.
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| Kevin Mark 2005-07-02, 2:48 am |
| On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:53:20PM +0200, Michaël Vicente wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> We are a team of researchers from the ENST (an engineering school of
> telecommunication in Paris), and we are doing a sociological survey on
> Debian in order to better understand the Debian community.
>
> After a qualitative study and several interviews with French developers, we
> want to extend this study to the whole community by sending a questionnaire.
>
>
> Answering to the following questionnaire will take about 15 minutes and
> will be very helpful to us.
>
> Click here <http://www.enst.fr/egsh/debian>www.enst.fr/egsh/debian to
> access to the questionnaire.
>
>
> Thank you very much for your participation.
Hi,
didn't tbm do some research into this?
Cheers,
Kev
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| Martin Michlmayr 2005-07-02, 2:48 am |
| * Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-devel@pipeline.com> [2005-07-01 23:34]:
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> didn't tbm do some research into this?
Yes and no. There is currently a lot of interest in free software and
various researchers study it from their perspectives, e.g. sociology,
management, economics, software engineering, etc
While my research is about free software, it doesn't seem to be
related to this survey at all. My own research is generally about
quality assurance and improvement and specifically about release
management as one aspect of quality management. See
http://www.cyrius.com/research/ for some more details.
For people who're interested to find out what has been published,
http://opensource.mit.edu/ has a fairly large collection of papers and
the proceedings of the workshop on Open Source engineering are
available at http://opensource.ucc.ie/
Some researchers are quite new to free software and are only starting
to understand how everything works, but others do good work - work
from which the community can benefit.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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| Martin Langhoff 2005-07-05, 7:54 am |
| On 7/2/05, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-devel@pipeline.com> [2005-07-01 23:34]:
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> Yes and no. There is currently a lot of interest in free software and
> various researchers study it from their perspectives, e.g. sociology,
> management, economics, software engineering, etc
Biella Coleman has also done some really fascinanting
anthropo/sociological research around FOSS, hacker ethics and Debian.
Some of her papers are published here:
http://www.healthhacker.com/biella/
She's also been teaching at Chicago Uni on the subject of FOSS
communities, and finishing her phd thesis -- of which I've seen some
partial drafts and found really interesting.
Last Debconf she instigated a "let's tell stories of back then"
gathering with Ian, Bdale and others, I captured a bit of that on
video, and she's got all (or most) of it on audio tapes. Dont' know if
it was ever transcribed. I'd love to get my hands on those tapes and
post them somewhere as mp3/ogg.
cheers,
martin
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