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
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
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Hmm, some of the questions were a little unclear - talking about the Wikimedia community, but Wikimedia (as a whole) is not a FOSS project. I became a developer roughly 3 years ago. I've been a member of Wikimedia land since roughly 2005. Similarly, does being a gsoc participant count as being paid to work on MediaWiki - after all gsoc students do get money for doing MediaWiki things, etc.
-bawolff
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:52 PM, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm, some of the questions were a little unclear - talking about the Wikimedia community, but Wikimedia (as a whole) is not a FOSS project.
Well, yes. We could say that Wikimedia is _also_ a FOSS project, handling 5,4M lines of code as we speak.
I became a developer roughly 3 years ago. I've been a member of Wikimedia land since roughly 2005.
The you are fine since the survey is about the Wikimedia technical community.
Similarly, does being a gsoc participant count as being paid to work on MediaWiki - after all gsoc students do get money for doing MediaWiki things, etc.
I wouldn't count a one-off, modest paid contribution like GSoC.
Just a reminder: the official deadline for the survey about new contributors is TOMORROW, although as late comers we will et some extra days until the end of the month (FRIDAY).
The survey info page says that it takes 20 minutes to complete it. fwiw I did it in rather less time.
On 11/19/2012 09:40 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
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. :)
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