[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: Can you help spread work to any FOSS developers you know

[Tyler Mitchell]

FYI - a FOSS-related survey for a research project.

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> From: Felicia Sullivan <felicia at oc-tech.org>
> Date: Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:00 PM
> Subject: Can you help spread work to any FOSS developers you know
>
>
> Perhaps some of you can help spread the word:
>
> For wide distribution
>
> I'm a PhD student in public policy at UMass Boston doing research on
> what motivates members of free and open source software communities.
>
> I'm looking at ways that public policy could increase the quantity and
> quality of contributions to free software and open source software
> (defined as projects with an approved open source license -
> http://opensource.org/).
>
> I have a professor that says if I can provide some convincing data on
> how to best support free and open source software, he thinks he can
> get the ideas on President Obama's desk. I am conducting a survey -
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=SA1BorCQ_2b9E6NSE_2bNCKavw_3d_3d
> and I need over 500 responses by May 1st in order to answer my key
> research questions.
>
> One lucky respondent will have $100 donated to the FOSS project of  
> their choice.
>
> Questions about this survey can be directed to me at
> felicia.sullivan at umb.edu. Thanks for your input.
>
> Acknowledgement
>
> I want to thank my FOSS developer go-to-guys -- Dan MacNeil, Peter
> Bull, Stéphane Alnet, and Bill de la Vega -- for providing critical
> feedback on this survey.
>
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> Felicia M. Sullivan
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> felicia at oc-tech.org
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>
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