For your information. You are invited / encouraged to take this survey. Thank you!

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM Subject: Please take this survey about new contributors To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hi, if you joined the MediaWiki / Wikimedia tech community in 2010 or later please consider taking this survey:

Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151&lang=en

The survey is open for sporadic contributors or full time Wikimedia employees, developers or any other profile. Anybody is welcome to leave their feedback as long as you have started contributing to this community in the past 3 years.

11 mature and well established open source projects are taking part in this survey: Debian, FreeBSD, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, NetBSD, OpenSUSE, Python, Ubuntu and Wikimedia. Some of them started some days ago and have more than hundred responses by now. The data of this survey is anonymous and will be released under a ‘share-alike’ Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).

Some background:

From Kevin Carillo, the researcher:

http://kevincarillo.org/survey-invitation/

From OpenHatch, a non-profit working on the bridge between free

software projects and new contributors: https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/a-research-project-to-understand-what-does-i...

PLEA If you, like me, became a bit tired of survey requests like this please consider filling this one anyway. It focuses in a specific area where we don't have much data. As fresh technical contributor coordinator at the WMF I'm looking forward to the results of this research and the lessons it will bring.

Thank you. :)

-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation