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Open Source Organizational Culture

Subject: Open Source Organizational Culture

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4 messages between Apr 22, 2014 and Apr 22, 2014.

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Marius Storm-Olsen· Apr 22, 2014, 02:45 UTC · lore

Hi,

I would like to request your participation in a survey on
    Open Source Organizational Culture, 
which will provide valuable insight into how Open Source projects are run, how their participants act, how they might change going forward, and how particular Open Source projects compare with one another and with traditional business cultures. The survey will take 10-15 minutes to complete.

    http://bit.ly/osocas2014

Why? ---- The survey will be used as part of my thesis on Open Source Organizational Culture at BI Norwegian Business School (www.bi.no/en, or www.bi.edu), but in true Open Source spirit the raw - but anonymized - results will be open for all. So, your Open Source project will be able to massage and dissect the results any way you wish, and see how you compare with other projects out there.

Up until now, most research in Open Source culture has been based on mining mailing lists to find out how people act, who they interact with, and how projects organize themselves.

In this research we would rather ask the participants directly about how a project is managed and what should change for the project to be spectacularly successful.

When? -----

The survey is open now through May 1st.

Where? ------

The bit.ly address brings you to the following survey

     https://osocas.2014.sgizmo.com/s3/

Remember that you can save your progress at any time and come back to the survey at a later point when you have time to finish it.

Who are you? ------------ My name is Marius Storm-Olsen, and I am currently working on a thesis on Open Source Organizational Culture. I've been an active part of Open Source for years, most notably on the Qt and Git projects. Although I have my own experiences to draw on in the thesis, they do not qualify for the Open Source community at large, hence the survey.

How to help? ------------ If you want to help, feel free to forward this email to any Open Source project you would want to participate the survey. Once you have send the invitation, please either send me an email with the name of the project, or update the table shown on

    https://github.com/mstormo/OSOCAS/wiki

I do hope you can participate, and thank you for your consideration!

Best regards, Marius Storm-Olsen

Marius Storm-Olsen· Apr 22, 2014, 04:09 UTC · re: Marius Storm-Olsen · lore

Re: Open Source Organizational Culture

On 4/21/2014 9:45 PM, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

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> I would like to request your participation in a survey on
>      Open Source Organizational Culture,
> which will provide valuable insight into how Open Source projects are
> run, how their participants act, how they might change going forward,
> and how particular Open Source projects compare with one another and
> with traditional business cultures. The survey will take 10-15
> minutes to complete.
>
>      http://bit.ly/osocas2014

...

> The bit.ly address brings you to the following survey
>
>       https://osocas.2014.sgizmo.com/s3/

First off, apologies that the initial email came through twice! It looked like the first email failed silently, but perhaps vger was just taking a snooze.

Turns out the osocas.2014.sgizmo.com survey subdomain gives an SSL warning for the *.sgizmo.com certificate. *face palm*

Feel free to use
     http://bit.ly/OSOCAS2014
instead, which will redirect to the non-subdomain version
     https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1587798/osocas-2014

Sorry for the inconvenience(s)!

Sincerely, Marius Storm-Olsen

Felipe Contreras· Apr 22, 2014, 05:26 UTC · re: Marius Storm-Olsen · lore

Re: Open Source Organizational Culture

Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

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> On 4/21/2014 9:45 PM, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
> > I would like to request your participation in a survey on
> >      Open Source Organizational Culture,
> > which will provide valuable insight into how Open Source projects are
> > run, how their participants act, how they might change going forward,
> > and how particular Open Source projects compare with one another and
> > with traditional business cultures. The survey will take 10-15
> > minutes to complete.
> >
> >      http://bit.ly/osocas2014
> ...
> > The bit.ly address brings you to the following survey
> >
> >       https://osocas.2014.sgizmo.com/s3/
> 
> First off, apologies that the initial email came through twice! It 
> looked like the first email failed silently, but perhaps vger was just 
> taking a snooze.
> 
> Turns out the osocas.2014.sgizmo.com survey subdomain gives an SSL 
> warning for the *.sgizmo.com certificate. *face palm*
> 
> Feel free to use
>      http://bit.ly/OSOCAS2014
> instead, which will redirect to the non-subdomain version
>      https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1587798/osocas-2014
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience(s)!

I already filled the survey in the first URL, will that work?

-- 
Felipe Contreras

Storm-Olsen, Marius· Apr 22, 2014, 11:59 UTC · re: Felipe Contreras · lore

Re: Open Source Organizational Culture

On 4/22/2014 12:26 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
>> Turns out the osocas.2014.sgizmo.com survey subdomain gives an SSL
>> warning for the *.sgizmo.com certificate. *face palm*
>>
>> Feel free to use
>>       http://bit.ly/OSOCAS2014
>> instead, which will redirect to the non-subdomain version
>>       https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1587798/osocas-2014
>>
>> Sorry for the inconvenience(s)!
>
> I already filled the survey in the first URL, will that work?

No problem, all the links work, just that the two in the original email are "noisy".

Thank you for your participation!

-- 
.marius