Programmers motivation research

[M. Pith]

Dear OpenBSD community,

We are researching the motivation factors of Open Source software
programmers and would like to ask your cooperation in our large-scale
research. The research is performed for the Amsterdam Business School of
the University of Amsterdam. Your participation would consist of
completing an online survey to which we have linked below. Your
participation is completely anonymous and the research publication will
be freely available, including the results of the survey.

The goal of the research is to better understand the motivations
software programmers have for joining and contributing to an Open Source
project. It is important our results are based on a diversified group of
developers , which includes members of projects that release their code
under BSD-derived licenses (such as OpenBSD).

The insights gained from this research would help the development of
theory for Information Management and could help practitioners better
understand Open Source projects. Next to this, the publication of this
research will increase the exposure of the development of Open Source
software within the academic environment. Please follow the link to the
online survey.

Our test audience has shown that completing the survey will take about
15 minutes. Your time is highly appreciated by us.

http://bit.ly/Survey_Developers_Motivation

Kind regards,
Dr. Thomas Adelaar
Mark Pith

-This independent research is not related to the OpenBSD project.-

[Tomas Bodzar-4]

Anonymity over plain http?

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Mark Pith <mark.pith@...> wrote:

> Dear OpenBSD community,
>
> We are researching the motivation factors of Open Source software
> programmers and would like to ask your cooperation in our large-scale
> research. The research is performed for the Amsterdam Business School of
> the University of Amsterdam. Your participation would consist of
> completing an online survey to which we have linked below. Your
> participation is completely anonymous and the research publication will
> be freely available, including the results of the survey.
>
> The goal of the research is to better understand the motivations
> software programmers have for joining and contributing to an Open Source
> project. It is important our results are based on a diversified group of
> developers , which includes members of projects that release their code
> under BSD-derived licenses (such as OpenBSD).
>
> The insights gained from this research would help the development of
> theory for Information Management and could help practitioners better
> understand Open Source projects. Next to this, the publication of this
> research will increase the exposure of the development of Open Source
> software within the academic environment. Please follow the link to the
> online survey.
>
> Our test audience has shown that completing the survey will take about
> 15 minutes. Your time is highly appreciated by us.
>
> http://bit.ly/Survey_Developers_Motivation
>
> Kind regards,
> Dr. Thomas Adelaar
> Mark Pith
>
> -This independent research is not related to the OpenBSD project.-
>
>

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http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

[Christiano Farina Haesbaert-2]

Done, good luck.

[Bob Beck-4]

2009/11/6 Mark Pith <mark.pith@...>:

> Dear OpenBSD community,
>
> We are researching the motivation factors of Open Source software
> programmers and would like to ask your cooperation in our large-scale
> research. The research is performed for the Amsterdam Business School of
> the University of Amsterdam. Your participation would consist of
> completing an online survey to which we have linked below. Your
> participation is completely anonymous and the research publication will
> be freely available, including the results of the survey.
>
> The goal of the research is to better understand the motivations
> software programmers have for joining and contributing to an Open Source
> project. It is important our results are based on a diversified group of
> developers , which includes members of projects that release their code
> under BSD-derived licenses (such as OpenBSD).
>
> The insights gained from this research would help the development of
> theory for Information Management and could help practitioners better
> understand Open Source projects. Next to this, the publication of this
> research will increase the exposure of the development of Open Source
> software within the academic environment. Please follow the link to the
> online survey.
>
> Our test audience has shown that completing the survey will take about
> 15 minutes. Your time is highly appreciated by us.
>
> http://bit.ly/Survey_Developers_Motivation
>
> Kind regards,
> Dr. Thomas Adelaar
> Mark Pith
>
> -This independent research is not related to the OpenBSD project.-
>
>

Oh dear... he wants the truth...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXoNE14U_zM