Survey: Relevance of Configuration Systems in Free and Open Source Software

[Gabriel Rauter <rauter gabriel+gnome gmail com>]

Dear developers, contributors and caretakers of free and open source software.

If you are involved in the development of free and open source software (FLOSS) you are the person we are looking for.

It would be a great help if you take this survey:

http://elektra.limequery.org/625192

It will be available till 18.07.2016 (anywhere on earth).

For every thoroughly and not anonymously finished survey € 40 cent will be donated to one of the following organizations of your choice:

For every thoroughly and not anonymously finished survey € 40 (at least € 200 in total) cent will be donated.

The donation goes to one organisation of your choice.

You need to enter your e-mail address to participate.

Then you can select between following projects:

- LimeSurvey (LimeService, kindly hosts this survey)

- SPI (General Donation: 0 A.D., LibreOffice, Debian, ArchLinux, …)

- FSFE

- GNOME

- KDE

- Mozilla (Firefox)

- Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)

So if you know anyone suited for this survey please feel free to share it.

As part of the ongoing research on the topic of configuration systems in free and open  source software here at Vienna University of Technology, we would like to invite you to participate in this short survey. It should only take you 15 minutes, promised!

By supporting us through this survey, you help the research by providing relevant input on this topic.

In addition the anonymised results will be released under an open licence, so other projects with involvement in configuration in free and open source software can benefit from it too.

In addition the results will be anonymised and made freely available.

Just leave your address at the end of the survey and we will send it to you.

For further questions regarding this survey or interest in the research of configuration systems feel free to contact as atsurvey libelektra org.

If you have not done it yet, we would appreciate if you take our survey at http://elektra.limequery.org/625192 before the 18.07.2016.