Open source and diagramming survey

Chung -

your survey should refrain from collecting demographic information
demographic information has no bearing on Computer Science, the Apache community in general or becoming a contributor to the Postgres community

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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:08:05 -0700
From: chung@engr.orst.edu
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Open source and diagramming survey

Dear open source contributors,

I am Eunyoung Chung, a Masters student working with Dr. Jensen at
Oregon State University.

We are currently doing a research project in collaboration with Dr.
Truong and Ph.D student Koji Yatani at University of Toronto. Our goal
is to understand how contributors communicate and collaborate in Open
Source Software (OSS) projects, including diagramming practices.

We are seeking volunteers for a quick survey on this topic. Any person
who is actively working on a OSS project is eligible. The survey takes
approximately 10-15 minutes, and the 5 volunteers will be picked to
receive a $30 Amazon gift certificate. Your participation is anonymous
(unless you consent to have us contact you)

Here is the survey address.

https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/limesurvey/58564/lang-en

We really appreciate your help!

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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 08:43:51PM -0400, Martin Gainty wrote:

your survey should refrain from collecting demographic information
demographic information has no bearing on Computer Science, the
Apache community in general or becoming a contributor to the Postgres
community

Really? How can you be so sure if you don't ask the question? I've
just had a look and there appears to be some literature on the subject,
so you at least want to ask the question to make sure you're getting a
representative sample.

Surely it's up to the person doing the survey to decide whether this
should go in; if it's coming from an academic department they will (or
should at least) know how much people dislike these sorts of questions
and will only include them if necessary.

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