Re: Research groups and the GNOME project

[Juan Jose Amor <jjamor gsyc escet urjc es>]

Hello!

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 16:25 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > By the way, I can vouch for the extreme jaw-dropping coolness of the
> > work of �varo and his group.  Their research results have been *really*
> > interesting!
> 
> Like Alan Horkan already mentioned, people (ie. developers) are losing
> interest in filling in surveys or otherwise helping FOSS "research".  
> Perhaps you can point us to the results that you have found interesting?

There are several research lines that requires data from surveys. One of
the most clear is effort estimations, since it is the usual manner for
getting data about hours spent in developing software. We can correlate
these survey results with the CVS productivity, for example, that we can
measure using some tools and without annoying any developer ...

About results, the most complete work published around surveys to Free
Software developers is:

http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/

And also, a summer project is about to publish their conclussions. I
still have not any URL for giving you them, anyway I guess it will be
published here soon: http://www.flossimpact.eu/


Best regards,

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