[Development] [Gimp-developer] Two-minute(!)-survey on motivation and free time contribution of open source developers

[Stefan Kullack]

Dear Kurt,

Of course, I’ll write a bit more about it:
 
What I want to do is get an idea of whether and how the free time sacrifice of open source developers is linked to the type of primary motivation they have for contributing to FLOSS in their free time. I know that there are studies that also included this, but they did not really satisfy me regarding this particular matter. Also, some studies already screw up on the very basic step of the correct categorization of sorts of motivation.
 
I hope this offers some of the background info you asked for…
 
I am still very thankful for everyone who takes two minutes to fill this out, so it becomes more objective: https://de.surveymonkey.com/s/MFKXYLP
 
Also, if anyone is interested, I’ll be willing to make my results available in the end.
 
Best regards,
 
Stefan
 
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Hi Stefan,
 
I would appreciate if you could give a small explanation of what your research is about. People get bothered with surveys much too often.
 
Cheers,
 
Kurt
 
 
> On 22 Aug 2014, at 23:54, "Stefan Kullack" <Stefankullack at web.de[http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development]> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
>  
> for a university research project at the Technical University Berlin (Germany) I would like to gather some original input from open source software developers. I kept the length of the survey to an absolute minimum!!!
>  
> It would be fantastic if you could spend two minutes on three simple questions!
>  
> Here is the link to the survey: https://de.surveymonkey.com/s/MFKXYLP[https://de.surveymonkey.com/s/MFKXYLP]
>  
> I highly appreciate the time you take for filling it out!
>  
> Best regards,
>  
> Stefan Kullack
>  
> Master student of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at TU Berlin