newcomer experince survey

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Hi all!

Kevin Carillo is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington whose research topic is about the influence of newcomer experience on contributor behaviour and performance in Free and Open Source Software communities. He has put together a really well-researched survey for people who started contributing to GNOME or other projects after January 2010. Please take it if you qualify! It's for technical and non-technical contributors alike!

The collected data will be released under a ‘share-alike’ Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) and the published materials about the research will be publicly available. The results of this research will be of great interest to everyone in Free and Open Source Software and your response would help ensure that we have a comprehensive set of data about newcomer experiences in GNOME. It'd be great if everyone who qualifies in GNOME takes part in this survey!

Please complete it by this Friday, November 23. Survey link: https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151&lang=en

More about the survey: http://kevincarillo.org/survey-invitation

Thank you!
Marina