I can tell you withouyt a survey most on stackoverflow are men and quite a few indian programmers as well, ive been in programming for 18 years and its very much a male dominated profession.
On Monday, July 23, 2012 1:58:07 PM UTC+1, Alexander Serebrenik 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
