Hi Mongers, First, let me apologize if you are seeing this twice as a result of the cross post with the Catalyst and DBIx::Class lists last week. I only post here because of the really poor response rate I've received.
As some of you may know, apart from being a module developer and occasional presence of lists IRC and Boston.PM, I am a student of Economics at Northeastern University. I am preparing the final research paper for my Senior Economics Seminar and I was hoping that those of you who have participated in open source hacking while employed could help me out by answering couple of short questions. This only applies to those of you who have either contributed, or paid someone to contribute to an OSS while "on the clock". Freelancers count too! Please, please, please take 2 mins to answer--it's mostly one word answers--and send it back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (don't reply to the list!) 1.) Name / alias, (last name optional) 2.) Company where development took place (optional) 3.) Were any of the contributions made simply to satisfy a license? (Yes, No) 4.) Were any releases, contributions made even though the license did not require you too? (yes, no) 5.) Was management, or your corporate environment receptive to participating in OSS? (yes, no) 6.) Why do you choose to participate in OSS? 7.) Do you feel there is an indirect return to contributing to OSS, and if so, what is it for you? 8.) Estimated value or (?:wo)?man-(?:months|days) of your yearly contributions ( optional ) Feel free to use your ohloh figures if you think they are accurate. Thank you so much to whoever can help! I need answers by Wednesday Mar 26 at the latest. I slacked off on my homework because I was too busy hacking on open source! If you know anyone else who wouldn't mind answering this please feel free to forward this. Remember, the more answers I get, the quicker I'll be able to resume hacking on OSS packages you may even use! (CPAN:groditi) Thanks again, -- Guillermo Roditi (groditi) _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
