Question 4.5 was worded wrong. In English, the wording of your question makes it difficult to choose an answer that would mean "Hell yes I mind! - Don't do it!". One could interpret "not at all" as "Nope, I wouldn't mind". One could also say "to a large degree" means "I agree that I would not mind". See the problem? In both cases it appears that I don't mind, even if I do.
Try this instead: "I would accept if openSUSE was designed in red Novell colors". With that, the answers become clearer in meaning. --Jonathon M. Robison On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Jan Fredrik Stoveland, and I am a masters student at the > University of Oslo writing a thesis on firm-sponsored open source > communities. openSUSE is the main case for the study. I have been granted > permission to send you this email by Andreas Jaeger and Martin Lasarch, > and I hope you do not mind receiving it. I would like to ask all of the > members of the this mailinglist to participate in a brief, anonymous > electronic survey targeted at active contributors in the openSUSE > community. The research is funded by the University, and is independent of > any commercial interests. The link to the survey is here: > https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer.html?fid=38823〈=en > > I have selected these mailinglists as the main community indicator: > project, factory, buildservice, wiki and translation. It is of great > importance to get valid answers from as many of you as possible. The > questions in the survey concern your current engagement in the openSUSE > community, your reasons for participating in the community and your > affiliation with Novell. I expect the survey will take you 10 minutes to > complete, unless you find any questions difficult to answer. > > What do you get in return for doing this? The results from the survey will > be posted to the list within a month, and the thesis with other > interesting findings about your community will be published around May > next year. Hopefully this will be of interest to you. But first of all I > hope you will contribute for the sake of research itself. Not too much > academic research has been done on communities that are facilitated by > partially-proprietary companies like Novell. > > Furthermore, I would like to do an in depth interview on the phone with a > few of you to get more detailed answers. I will randomly select about 6 > people to talk to. In addition I would appreciate to talk to any people > that have additional opinions. So if you have something more to say after > completing the survey, please send me an email! > > Thank you very much for your help! > > Jan Fredrik Stoveland > Student of Sociology and Informatics > University of Oslo, Norway > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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