From: python-de-admin@python.net on behalf of Andrew Waterman
[andrew.waterman@stanford.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 8:54 PM
To: python-de@python.net
Subject: [Python-de] a request for assistance from open source
developers

I am a researcher at Stanford University's Institute for Economic Policy Research, and we are conducting an online survey of open source/free software developers, called the Free/Libre/Open Open Source Software Survey for 2003 (http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/).  This survey has been designed to complement the FLOSS survey for 2002 of open source/free software developer communities, which was sponsored by the European Commission.

We have collected almost 1000 responses from open source software developers in many countries around the world, but we have had only 30 responses from developers living in Germany, Switzerland, or Austria.  I am sure this is a signficant under-representation of the free and open source communities there!

If you are a developer of free/open source software and can spare the time, we would greatly appreciate if you could fill out our our online questionnaire at http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us.  We know that there are many surveys being sent to open source developers.  But we hope our survey is worth taking, because the size and diversity of our survey sample will allow well-founded conclusions to be drawn about the free and open source software movements.

Thanks very much!

Sincerely,
Andrew Waterman


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