[Usability] Earn donations for Gnome, participate in desktop notification study

[Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste kde org>]

Hello everyone!

It has been a while since I've been in contact with the open source community. Between finishing my PhD and getting a job, my life has been very busy. However, I have continued to think about open source communities while I have been away. For example, like the study I am currently running.

Desktop notifications are a service to help you maintain awareness of applications and services running in the background. Love them or hate them, they provide an essential service that we cannot live without. The first Desktop Notification Study focused on the KDE community. Results of the study provided interesting insight to what makes a notification good or bad.

The current study expands the focus to all Free/Libre/Open Source Software communities. Tell me about the most recent notification you received and help me understand what makes a notification good or bad across the board.

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1655301/Desktop-Notification-Survey-Open-Source

For each completed survey, the project will donate $1 USD to one of the following projects (you choose): KDE, Gnome, Free Software Foundation, Free Software Foundation Europe, and the Apache Foundation.

Spread the word and share with your friends, earning donations to your favorite FLOSS project along the way!

Cheers,

~ Celeste Lyn Paul (formerly of the KDE Usability Project and KDE e.V. Board)