Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Nov 1999 12:42:59 +0100 | From | Sven Niedner <> | Subject | ANNOUNCE: Studying the Linux process (psychologically) |
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Hi Net,
we are planning a questionnaire study on the Linux development process and therefore need your input.
The goals of our study are:
* to understand the motivations of Linux developers
* to analyze how cooperation in a successful Open Source project works
* to make these working principles explicit so that they can be further discused, optimized, and perhaps also transfered to other Open Source projects
* to provide a solid statistical base for theories of e.g. ESR
The study itself will follow Open Source principles. This means that all information and data of our study will be publicly available at the project's homepage:
http://www.psychologie.uni-kiel.de/linux-study
(There is also more information about our project.)
Moreover, the development of the questionnaire itself will follow Open Source principles in order to better integrate the various experiences of Linux developers. Therefore, we are anxious to learn more about your thoughts and ideas which processes, principles, or motivations you think are necessary to enable successful software development in the Linux community.
Since such a discussion is off-topic on linux-kernel, we invite interested developers to join our mailing list:
linux-study@mlab.psychologie.uni-kiel.de
To subscribe to the linux-study mailing list, send a mail containing "subscribe linux-study" (without quotes) to majordomo@mlab.psychologie.uni-kiel.de .
Looking forward to your ideas and comments,
Sven Niedner Stefanie Hermann Guido Hertel
-- Sven Niedner, Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik Physics of Toroidal Plasmas, http://www.psychologie.uni-kiel.de/~niedner REAL fortran programmers can program fortran in any language.
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