* Barak Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-20 10:14]: > I consider my own time more valuable than yours. > If you spend half an hour making useful improvements to my Debian > packages, or proofreading my personal web site and sending me > corrections or other improvements, I'll fill out your survey.
I wasn't invited to take part in the survey, so I cannot talk specifically about this one. However, in general, I don't see the problem. If those surveys lead to a better understanding of the free software community (e.g. why people get involved; what problems they might perceive, such as burn-out; what problems users have with our software), we can use these insights as a good starting point for further improvements - and this certainly is a significant contribution, just like proofreading some manuals or reporting a bug. Disclaimer: I'm both a free software developer as well as a researcher looking at quality in free software projects, so I will eventually have to invite people to take part in surveys too and I'm thinking a lot of how to avoid make my invitations look like random spam... -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
