In this particular context: country-based (e.g., developers from sub-Saharan Africa), origin-based (immigrants from country X in country Y), gender-based (women) and age-based. --Alexander
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 7:22:45 PM UTC+2, Eric wrote: > > Define 'minorities' > > > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Alexander Serebrenik > <a.serebre...@tue.nl> wrote: > > Do you participate in StackOverflow discussions? > > > > As a part of a joint on-going research effort of the Brunel University > (UK) > > and Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) on the impact > of > > collaboration sites on the developers community, we would like to > understand > > the demographics of StackOverflow participants and their activity. > > Specifically we are focusing on how genders, minorities and cultural > > background are represented in the population of users and participants > of > > StackOverflow. > > > > Therefore, we have prepared a small questionnaire: > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEhtUVNQTEJmRTlwMVJSQ1hkeUZTR3c6MQ#gid=0 > > > > > In our previous research we have proposed an h-index for open source > > developers > > ( > http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Developing+an+h-index+for+OSS+developers.%22), > > > > and we have a paper under review about how web activity (also Stack > > Overflow's) could be used by candidates as their resumes. > > > > Filling this questionnaire should not take more than a couple of > minutes. > > Personal data will not be made available to third parties and no > > identifiable details about individual participants will be published. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Andrea Capiluppi (andrea.capiluppi @ brunel.ac.uk) [Lecturer, Brunel > > University, UK; NL; SO userid: 1528556] > > Alexander Serebrenik (a.serebrenik @ tue.nl) [Assistant Professor, > > Eindhoven University of Technology, NL; SO userid: 1277111] > > Bogdan Vasilescu (b.n.vasilescu @ tue.nl) [PhD student, Eindhoven > University > > of Technology, NL; SO userid: 1285620] > > > > Discussion of this survey on Meta Stack Overflow: > > > http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/139901/gender-representativeness-and-reputation-in-stackoverflow > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "DotNetDevelopment, VB.NET, C# .NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XML > > Web Services,.NET Remoting" group. > > To post to this group, send email to dotnetdevelopment@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > dotnetdevelopment+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/dotnetdevelopment?hl=en?hl=en > > or visit the group website at http://megasolutions.net > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DotNetDevelopment, VB.NET, C# .NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XML Web Services,.NET Remoting" group. To post to this group, send email to dotnetdevelopment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to dotnetdevelopment+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dotnetdevelopment?hl=en?hl=en or visit the group website at http://megasolutions.net
