Thanks for those who have already taken part in the survey. It has been brought to my attention that several questions refer to the notion of membership within the LibreOffice community. By membership I am not asking about TDF membership, instead I am referring to the point when you began contributing to the LibreOffice software project (developing, reporting bugs, writing documentation, etc...). TDF members however fully qualify for taking part in the survey. It will be interesting to compare both types of newcomer experience.
However, regular users are not included. I am definitely not saying that LibreOffice users are not important for the community (since LibO would not exist without its users) but simply that the survey targets the experience of new contributors when joining the LibO project. It encompasses the tasks they had to undertake to learn how to contribute as well as the interactions with other community members while learning about how to contribute to the software project. Potential survey participants shall have joined the LibO community within the last 2 years. LibO celebrated its 2-year birthday recently, and you may argue that everyone in LibO then joined within the last 2 years. The survey applies to people who joined the LibO community since it was created but who were not previously involved in the OpenOffice project. The survey description has been updated to clarify both aspects. For those who are at the LibO conference right now, have fun! Kevin (kevouze on irc) From: Tom Davies [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2012 5:21 a.m. To: Joel Madero Cc: Kevin Carillo; [email protected] Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Survey about newcomer experience for LibreOffice project contributors Hi :) Hmmm, i still haven't looked but would be very disappointed if it really is only official members. However fast the application membership process is it's unlikely to ever meet demand. I'm hoping for a bit of a "snowball effect" = as more people become members it becomes faster to process the applications. I'm not an official member either and even amongst those that contribute a lot only a tiny percentage are officially members. It seems likely that i might even be thrown off the lists soon due to a few disagreements i am currently having with the BoD. I'm often in that position so it's unlikely i would ever be allowed to be a member! On the other hand some in the BoD applaud me :) [shrugs] Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Joel Madero <[email protected]> To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> Cc: kevouze <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 17:09 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Survey about newcomer experience for LibreOffice project contributors Just to clarify, is this only for official members? There is a difference between the main community and official members of TDF. Most people are not official members, there's a long process that has some requirements to it. I started the survey and stopped when I cam across Question #5, I'm not an official member of TDF. Please clarify and we'll move forward. Thanks! Regards, Joel On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi :) > So, pretty much everyone in LO then! :) Even people that worked in OOo > for a decade and Star Office before that are likely to have been in LO for > 2 years and a couple of weeks. LO celebrated it's 2nd birthday just a > couple of weeks ago. So everyone is eligible :) > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > >________________________________ > > From: kevouze <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > >To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > >Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 6:37 > >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Survey about newcomer experience for > LibreOffice project contributors > > > >Hi, > >I am currently conducting a survey that looks at the influence of > newcomer > >experience on contributor behavior and performance in Free/Open Source > >Software communities. > > > >If you have joined the LibreOffice community within the last 2 years, I > >would like to invite you to complete the survey. I am interested in > hearing > >from people who are either technical or non-technical contributors, and > who > >have had either positive or negative newcomer experiences. > > > >The survey is available HERE > ><https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=14153&lang=en> . > >It will be available until Monday, 29 October, 2012. > > > >The data you provide will help understand the experience of newcomers > within > >the LibreOffice community. It will also be used to refine the survey > before > >it is later administered to contributors from other FOSS projects. > > > >This survey is anonymous, and no information that would identify you is > >being collected. The School of Information Management Human Ethics > Committee > >has approved this research project. > > > >If you know members of the LibreOffice community who you think would be > >interested in completing it, please do not hesitate to let them know about > >this research. > > > >I will post news about my progress with this research, and the results on > my > >blog: http://kevincarillo.org<http://kevincarillo.org/>. > > > >Thanks. > > > >Kevin Carillo > >PhD candidate > >School of Information Management > >Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand > > > > > > > > > >-- > >View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Survey-about-newcomer-experience-for-LibreOffice-project-contributors-tp4013861.html > >Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > >-- > >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: > >[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > >Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > > > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- *Joel Madero* LibO QA Volunteer [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
