Survey on open source and its influence on communities

Hi,

I'm a researcher in the field of open source beyond software. Currently I'm investigating the special meaning of openness and its importance for the communities in this field.

Your opinion as RepRap community member is very important to me!
Please take 5-7 minutes to fill out my survey. Your response will help advance my research on the nature of hardware/software open source projects and help improve the quality of open source projects.

Please follow this link:
[www.survey.open-innovation-projects.org]

The individual responses will be kept strictly confidential, aggregated results will be published as soon as the survey is finished.
If you are interested, I can also provide some specific results about the RepRap community.

If you want to read more details about me and my research, please take a look at: [open-innovation-projects.org]
We appreciate your help!

Best regards
Kerba

Hi Kerstin,

i've run through the survey some days ago - have you already collect some representative data?

Viktor

Hi Viktor,

up to now I have exactly one response for RepRap ;-)
But I only started contacting RepRap folks today, so I assume you found my survey somewhere else.

Also looking at the total number, I don't have enough answers to call it representative or meaningful in any way. But I keep contacting people and communities and I'm optimistic that this is going to change soon.

Regards
Kerstin

Hi Kerstin,

Kerba Wrote:
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> up to now I have exactly one response for RepRap
> ;-)
> But I only started contacting RepRap folks today,
> so I assume you found my survey somewhere else.

... ooopps, this one should be mine - i stumbled in your call at fab@home ...

I hope there will be some more activity here

Viktor

Hi Kerba,
I did the first two steps of your survey but stoppe because I have a question. I build a bitsfrombytes Rapman which is a Rep(st)rap, a derivative from the RepRap. They have their own forum on which I'm far more active than here. Can I just assume that this falls under RepRap because it's kind of a sub community or do you rather separate and ad another category to the list?
Ps. you can post your survey there too. www.bitsfrombytes.com/fora

Success with your research!

Thanks for this remark!

I added BitsFromBytes as separate project to my list and will also post my survey there

I just finished your survey. I am interested in seeing your results. I hope you post here again once your have completed your research.

Josh

Hi again,

I'm planning to publish first results by mid October and I will be able to include all answers which arrive until Monday, October, 5.

If some of you who did not yet respond are still interested in filling out my survey, please do so until Monday. I would be very happy about some more answers.

Best regards
Kerba

P.S. And of course I will post again as soon as the results are available.

... await your findings

Viktor

There you go...

As promised, here you can find my first release of aggregated survey results for all communities:
[open-innovation-projects.org]

And here are the results from the RepRap community:
[open-innovation-projects.org]

Kerstin