Thanks, Lee. You are quite right that it's a biased sample. Still, there was strong response to the *mini-poll*<http://blog.fiveyearitch.com/p/for-article-for-brazen.html> from NWRUG, and the 281 responses give us some interesting results, within the user-group population. Setting aside the silly category titles, the breakdown of answers on the individual questions is interesting. The results are in line with Lee's self-description.
- The vast majority are involved in open-source development. 45% treat OS as a hobby. Only 14% have never contributed to OS. - 90% have learned at least one language/framework in depth in the last year. - StackOverflow is a great resource, but most developers contribute only a little if at all. Only 5% have a high SO reputation, and 44% have never commented on the site. I'll ping you when the article comes out, or follow my *blog*<http://blog.fiveyearitch.com/>. Regards, Josh Writer: *Business Insider<http://blog.fiveyearitch.com/p/three-articles-fiveyearitch-business.html> /Brazen Careerist <http://blog.brazencareerist.com/author/joshfox/>* Founder, *FiveYearItch.com <http://fiveyearitch.com/>* On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 3:55:34 PM UTC+3, Lee Hambley wrote: > > When you contact a user group, you're biasing your sample, we're people > who care enough about their craft to give up "real world" free time to > attend meetings to get better at what we do. > > Anecdotally - I happen to be the "can't f***ng help myself" kind of serial > open source committer, maintainer, language junkie, side project maniac, > who's basically burned himself out to a gray haired shell of a human being > by 27yr old. > > That all said, there's plenty of people on the list who generally just "do > their job" and study up when they're looking for an interview or a > promotion, people who drop into real world user group meetings once or > twice a year. > > Regarding StackOverflow, it's a bad example, people with massive > reputations have learned to game the system (answer unanswered questions in > < 30s, post one sentence, spend 10 minutes researching an answer and "edit" > your answer a few minutes later for maximum karma impact) But, some of us > care. (See the "how to game stackoverflow rep" question on stackoverflow: > http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/17250 ) > > My Projects: > > - https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano > - http://lee.hambley.name/ > - https://github.com/leehambley > > And my "typical" stack overflow rep: > http://stackoverflow.com/users/119669/lee-hambley > > > Lee Hambley > -- > http://lee.hambley.name/ > +49 (0) 170 298 5667 > > > On 11 June 2013 21:42, Josh Fox <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> For an article I'm writing (for Brazen Careerist/Business Insider), I'd >> like to ask: >> >> Do you do the ninja thing -- pardon the expression* ☺* ? >> >> How common is it really to: >> - commit open-source code >> - rack up StackOverflow karma >> - continually learn new technologies >> ... or do people just "do their jobs"? >> >> I'm guessing that a small proportion of active bloggers gives us an >> exaggerated sense of these things. >> >> I put together a quick three-question >> poll<http://blog.fiveyearitch.com/p/for-article-for-brazen.html>. >> I made it to be fun to answer, and when you do it, you can see where you >> stand. >> >> Regards, >> >> Josh >> >> Writer: Business >> Insider<http://blog.fiveyearitch.com/p/three-articles-fiveyearitch-business.html> >> /Brazen Careerist <http://blog.brazencareerist.com/author/joshfox/> >> Founder, FiveYearItch.com <http://fiveyearitch.com/> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NWRUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
