<div dir="ltr">Marco,<div><br></div><div>Sounds OK to me too. As far as I understand, You're asking for the permission to send a link to a survey (questionnaire) in dev ML, right? I don't know if you actually need the PSC to vote for that, I presume you don't. Particularly, you could add a disclaimer to the web page of the survey in which you explain the purpose and the use you intend to do. The developers can decide on their own whether to participate or not. And.. good luck with your thesis!</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>madi</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Marco Foi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foimarco@gmail.com" target="_blank">foimarco@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear ML
Administrators/PSC,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am a GIS
enthusiast and Computer Science student and I am writing you to seek for your
preliminary consensus to use the <a href="mailto:grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>
mailing list for the purposes of my MSc thesis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Specifically
I am trying to directly collect the developers’ opinions about a number of
features that might characterize a good desktop geo-processing framework.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The final
goal is going a step beyond the usual Desktop GIS round-up to attempt a review
of all those open-source desktop environments that attract developers and
spatial-scientist by allowing them to efficiently create new tools to process spatial
information.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My plan is
administering a simple questionnaire trough the ML and collect voluntary
contributes from the subscribers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The
synthesis of the results from this survey and from all the analogous performed
inside other Communities will be made publicly available at the end of the
study (February 2014) through a post on this ML (and perhaps in a subsequent</span> open-access paper).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All
contributes from the ML will be managed complying to University Ethical
Committee (EC) regulations to ensure no leakage of personal information will occur. This study has been approved by the EC with protocol number COM/PG/UH/00034.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Looking
forward to hearing from you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Marco
Foi</span></p></div>
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