Did the OSM board approve a bulk survey activity, directed to OSM user's inboxes? The discussion on this survey was fairly negative a month ago, and today it showed up in my inbox:
*padeshahekhoban* *26 July 2013 at 21:10* *Hello,* *I am researching on the motivations and behaviors of OSM contributors as my postdoc project and I would like to ask you kindly to go to the following link that contains a short online questionnaire and help me and the OSM community to have a better understanding of the OSM users in the project.* *http://en.q-set.xxx/q-set.php?sCode=XXXXXXXXX* *Your data is going to be anonymously analyzed and therefore you are assured of its confidentiality as well.* *Please don't hesitate to contact me if you come across any questions or you have some feedback.* *Thank you in advance for your time and interest.* *Kind regards, padeshahekhoban* I don't see any trust metrics in this message. How many people was it sent to? Is it a representative sample? Did the board approve? If the board approved, why is it coming from a user rather than an osm administrative account? I asked the poster and was told: *This is official for a research and it has been approved and modified by the OSM board. The results will be published and sent back to survey participants.* *thanks,* I am happy to answer research questions, but would prefer it be a broad-based, representative sample, with the basic answers available to all researchers. A specific research project then may answer questions on top of the above. And there some be some limit... perhaps once a year... once every six months?
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