GSoC Final-Survey

[Andreas Schilling <andreas schilling uni-bamberg de>]

Dear GSoC-Students 2011,

First of all, thanks to all of you who answered my first 
GSoC-questionnaire a month ago. Your answers help me a lot with my research.

I hope you enjoyed your Google Summer of Code at GNOME and you all 
succeeded in you individual coding-projects. As you might remember, I am 
a research assistant at the chair for Information Systems and Services 
at Bamberg University. In my research I analyze factors that drive 
FLOSS-developers to contribute. Therefore, I am analyzing currently 
together with Ruben motivational and environmental factors which are 
especially relevant for GSoC-students. Because the best way to find 
about these factors is to survey the people who are concerned, I would 
like to take the chance and ask you to answer the questionnaire linked 
below. Like the last time the questionnaire is 4 pages long and is 
structured into the 3 sections “Your motivation”, “Your experience” and 
“You conclusion”. I would greatly appreciate if you could take 10 
minutes (I promise it won’t take longer) and answer the questions until 
August 31. Your answers would allow me to see if and how developers’ 
motivational and environmental drivers change during GSoC.

The questionnaire is designed to offer you the highest level of 
anonymity, so please answer honestly. Because the questionnaire is 
publicly available, I have to ensure that only GSoC-students of this 
year participate in the survey. Hence, you are asked at the beginning of 
the questionnaire to enter your KDE-username. I assure you that I will 
never give your personal answers to anyone of GNOME nor to anyone else. 
Ruben provided me already with the IDs of all GSoC-students of this 
year, so I will check the validity all myself. Further, I guarantee you 
that your answers will have no effect at any time on your evaluation 
results or your GSoC-stipends.


Please find the questionnaire under this link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDM5NThkdHVBeVdDcVVlUnhuQ3NMWkE6MA

Finally, I would like to wish all of you the best for your future and 
your time at GNOME.

Thank you

Andreas