Hi, We are students of Lund University doing our Bachelor thesis for the Systems Design-programme.
We are conducting research on why and how FOSS projects fork. The aim of the research is to better understand the special issues regarding FOSS-projects with regards to the forces leading up to a fork. We hope that any knowledge gained from this can be incorporated in the future education of System analysts. Our focus is the motivation of the developers involved. We are now looking for developers from the XFree86 and X.Org projects who would like to share their experience and thoughts with us to base our research on. If you are interested in helping us please reply in private to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you desire to be anonymous we will take action to ensure this. Obviously it will be hard to mask what projects has been involved in the study as we have contacted you in public allready. However, the interviews will be anonymized by the best of our abillities while still retaining credibillity for the data. Before finalizing the thesis all participators will recieve an altered copy of their transcript (the one which will be published) to approve it. We appreciate the sensitivity of the matter, however it will be hard to conduct scientific research without some means to validate the conclusions. If the interviewee does not find the altered transcript acceptable we will discard the transcript, or the sensitive parts thereof, and not use it in our research. Regards, John Nilsson Johan Sånesson
