GSoC-Survey

[Andreas Schilling]

Dear GSoC students of 2011,

I hope you all enjoy your participation at Google Summer of Code 2011 
and you are making good progress with your programming projects. My name 
is Andreas Schilling. I am a research assistant at the chair of 
Information Systems and Services at the University of Bamberg. In my 
research I examine factors that drive developers to contribute to 
open-source projects. Together with Lydia Pintscher, I am currently 
analyzing motivational factors that are especially important for 
GSoC-students at KDE. Because the best way to find out more about these 
driving factors is to survey the people who are directly affected, I 
would like to take the chance and ask you all to answer the 
questionnaire linked below. The questionnaire is 4 pages long and is 
structured in the sections “Demographic data”, “Your motivation”, “Your 
experiences so far” and “Your conclusions”. I would greatly appreciate 
if you could take 10 minutes (I promise it won’t take longer) and answer 
the questions until July 15th.

The questionnaire is designed to offer you the highest level of 
anonymity, so please answer the questions honestly. At the beginning you 
are asked to enter your Melange ID. This is necessary because the 
questionnaire is publicly accessible, so that I have to ensure that only 
the responds from enrolled GSoC-2011 students are considered. Lydia 
provided me already with a list of valid IDs, so I can assure you that 
none of your personal answers will ever be given to the KDE team (not 
even to Lydia) or to any other party. Consequently, I guarantee you that 
your answers have no effect at any time on your GSoC-evaluations or on 
your stipends.


Please find the questionnaire under this link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFo0LWhIdFdvcnA5RFROaUlRNjNPT1E6MQ


As soon as I finish my research, I will publish the aggregated results 
of this study on Lydia’s blog, so that you can have a look the findings.

Finally I would like to wish all of you lots of success for your coding 
projects.

Thank you all very much in advance.

Andreas