Hi everyone We are looking for participants to help us with a study on the sustainability of free and open source software, ‘Mapping the co-production of digital infrastructure by peer projects and firms’, which is funded by a Sloan and Ford Foundations grant.
We are trying to learn about how commercial firm engagement with F/OSS, for example in the form of paying developers to develop F/OSS, impacts volunteer projects such as Apache/Spark. Our quantitative survey of GitHub shows that Apache/Spark is one of the top recipients of commits by people with a professional email address (eg @microsoft.com), which is why we are reaching out to members of the Apache/Spark community. Participation in the survey requires about five minutes of your time (there are only seven questions). If you are involved in Apache/Spark as a developer, maintainer or contributor, please follow the link below to answer our questions: https://unicanberra.limequery.com/118845?lang=en <https://unicanberra.limequery.com/118845?lang=en> The research team: Mathieu O’Neil, University of Canberra; Xiaolan Cai, University of Canberra; Laure Muselli, Telecom Paris; Mahin Raissi, University of Canberra; Stefano Zacchiroli, Universite Paris Diderot / INRIA & former Debian Project Leader Duration: The survey will run for 2 weeks, from November 25 to December 9 2019. More information? Please visit our project webpage: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/nmrc/research/mapping-the-co-production-of-digital-infrastructure-by-peer-projects-and-firms <https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/nmrc/research/mapping-the-co-production-of-digital-infrastructure-by-peer-projects-and-firms> Any questions? Email: mathieu[dot]oneil[at]canberra[dot]edu[dot]au This research has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee at the University of Canberra (Project no. 1865). -- Sent from: http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org
