Survey on occasional Open Source Contributions

[Sharan Foga <sh...@apache.org>]

Hi Everyone

At FOSDEM earlier this month I was contacted by Ann Barcomb who is currently doing some research about people that occasionally contribute to open source. She is looking for a few more respondents and asked me to communicate the details. 

She is collecting the information via the following online survey: http://barcomb.org/survey 

Ann also sent me some details about herself and the reasons behind the research, which I've included at the end of this message.

Thanks
Sharan

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## About me ## 

- I previously worked as a software developer and have been a member of the Perl community sincet  2000. My desire to research this field stems from my personal interests. 

- All my scientific work has an open access version available at http://barcomb.org and I hope to share my findings outside of academic conferences. In particular, I expect to submit talks to the community track at FOSDEM and the Community Leadership Conference at the European Open Source Summit. 


## The Survey ## 

- All demographic information (section G) and contact information (section H) is optional 

- The survey software is Limesurvey, running a private instance on a dedicated virtual machine (kudrassl.thenetyeti.com). Survey data will only be shared with my co-authors. 

- The purpose of this study is to explore whether the EVER model of episodic volunteer engagement and retention (Hyde et al, 2016) is applicable in a free software/open source context. The implication of a positive answer would be a better understanding of the motivating factors of infrequent or occasional contributors. A negative answer would allow a different model to be constructed. 

- I am interested in responses from people who contribute voluntarily in any way, not just through patches: bug reports, translations, staffing the cloak room at a conference, giving promotional talks, etc. Although I am only focusing on occasional contributions, even people who regularly participate in one community might infrequently contribute to another. 

- I have received 75 complete responses and am aiming to get at least 25 more for construct validity.

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