-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, if you have some spare minutes, I would like you to have a look at the enclosed questionnaire and ask you to fill it as specified below.
Many thanks, Luca === Dear NTOP folks, This is Yuwei Lin from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I am a research fellow working in the department of information systems, marketing and logistics. My research is about the institutionalisation of open source software practice and dynamics in the organisation process. To collect empirical data, I have designed a questionnaire as follows for my case study on NTOP.org funded by the PRIME project[1]). I would really appreciate it if you could take 20 minutes answering these questions and email back to me. These data would not only help me conduct my research but also be good for the whole OSS community when being used by other researchers in future research projects. Your information would be made anonymous. Unless you request otherwise, your name will be replaced with a code consisting of two letters and the date of the interview: e.g. AA230501. Other people that were mentioned during the interview will also go unnamed. Anonymity will not, however, cover names of companies, organisations, or government bodies, unless this is specified by you. It would be fantastic if you can try to send your answers back to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before 1st May. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Yuwei http://www.ylin.org - ------ Here begins the questionnaire ------ 1. To begin with, can you just give a brief description of your current work? Does it have any link with officially registered organizations (e.g. companies, non-/governmental organisations. educational organisations etc.) in the computer industry? 2. Since when have you started using NTOP? How did you know of this software? 3. What do you use NTOP for? 4. Given your experience, what are the advantages and disadvantages of NTOP compared with other proprietary software or free/open source software in the same category? 5. Are there times when you use the functionality of NTOP to develop your own project, programme or service? If so, can you give an example? 6. How much time do you spend contributing to NTOP? What kind of contributions do you provide to the project? Do you think that your contribution is important for the overall success of the project? 7. Apart from on-line communication, do you think face-to-face meeting is helpful for the development and/or for the community itself? Why, or why not? 8. Do you know that NTOP is released under the General Public License (GPL)? Do you agree with this way of licensing? Why, or why not? 9. In your view, is there anything that can be improved to facilitate the development of NTOP? 10. If you are willing to, could please tell me briefly about your age, education, nationality and year in which your activity with FLOSS started? - ------ Here ends the questionnaire ------ Please email your answers back to Yuwei Lin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you very much for your participation. [1] http://www.prime-noe.org/index.php [2] http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCalzQmMhDxnkh3zQRAlgvAJwLCNP8fDv5g7Y1b38z5JOllt7kcQCdH+9D omEbbgPA0wP/n/eudJqcIrA= =Oj2z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
