Social network analysis of KOffice and KDE contributors survey

Dear all,

I have done a social network analysis of KOffice mailing
lists (koffice, 
koffice-devel, krita,kplato,kexi), you can find it here : 
http://
www.ired.org/kdesurvey/sna/koffice.htm
(analysis of all KDE mailing lists: 
http://
www.ired.org/kdesurvey/sna/ml_net.html). If you want to
know which node you are, please send me a mail (or for
comments). To
correctly interpret these first results I need you to answer
a
questionnaire: http://www.ired.org/kd
esurvey/

I’m currently doing a research in sociology about social
identity in
KDE (including KOffice). This study addresses the community
as a whole
including the package maintainers, the translators, the
developers, bug
reporters, etc.
*We invite all contributing persons* to answer this
questionnaire
http://www.ired.org/kd
esurvey/ It takes *15 minutes only*.

*A lucky respondent will receive an Amazon Voucher of 75
EURO*. The
survey will end the 30 of August. People that have already
responded are
automatically included. The winner will be announced on
kde-devel list.

After answering the questionnaire, you will receive a graph
resuming
your participation and will then be free to post it on our
server
(http://www.
ired.org/kdesurvey/alluser.php), if you so desire.
Please
email me if you haven't received it, I have received some
wrong mail
addresses.

The final report will be freely available. You will be
notified about it.

Thank you very much for your participation and to all people
that
already answered the questionnaire!

Matthias Studer
matthias.studermetri.unige.ch
http://www.ired.org/mat
thias/

I sincerely apologize for the spammish nature of this
e-mail, I don't
mean to abuse this list.

This study aims to understand the processes of construction
of a social
identity in a mature Free/Libre Open Source Software project
taking KDE
as a case study. It aims to understand how this social
identity evolves
over time and how it is related to a participation
trajectory (history
of participation inside the project). We also want to
understand the
relation between social identity and more traditional
dimensions such as
socio-economic factors, motivation, gift dynamics and
Free/Libre Open
Source Software ethics.














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