On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 22:34 +0100, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2011 13:57:42 Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: > > FYI, > > > > A group of researchers leaded by Jim Herbsleb got in contact with GNOME > > Foundation some months ago in order to research how communities works, > > how a volunteer become an active contributor, among others. > > > > In the following days, developers (committers) will receive and > > invitation to complete a survey that would not take more than 20 minutes > > (or even less). However, the participation in the study is completely > > voluntary. > > > > It worth to mention that the results will be shared with the community, > > and we will insist on that. > > > > At last but not least, the original plan included a joint survey to help > > set the Foundation goals, which will not be the case. However, we are > > looking forward to receive help from this team of researchers in the > > near future. > > Since people from "Others" section also got the invitation (like me), I > wonder, whether the results of the questions regarding making GNOME better and > the effort taken into GNOME may become a bit inapropriate, as those aren't > actually doing that (their software is not shipped with GNOME). > > Or does GNOME in this case mean GNOME + software meant for GNOME-using > people? Just wondering. I do not know what do you mean by "Others", but if you got an email is because you have contributed with GNOME (considering the software under gnome.org). -- Germán Póo-Caamaño http://www.gnome.org/~gpoo/
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