[kde-community] Studies on FLOSS contributor/user personalities?

[Michael Bohlender]

... I forgot to add the link.

http://thym.org/downloads/Akademy2010-Thym-The-7-OS-Principles.pdf


On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Michael Bohlender <
michael.bohlender at kdemail.net> wrote:

> Hi Celeste,
>
> I remeber a  talk by Thomas Thym for Akademy 2010.
> He also wrote a little paper for it. There is one small paragraph about
> the "character" of FLOSS contributors.
> It cites the work of Krogh, Spaeth and Lakhani. Hope that helps as a
> starting point.
>
> Regards
>
> M.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Has anyone heard of or seen research studies that have looked at
>> personality types of FLOSS contributors and users? I'm working on a small
>> research project and personality style of FLOSS contributors has come up.
>>
>> Intuitively, I could say a lot about us/them. Tendencies towards
>> introversion, opinionated, need for control, judging vs. perceiving,
>> analytical, etc. But for my project, I'd like empirical evidence rather
>> than my own experience ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> ~ Celeste
>>
>> --
>> Celeste Lyn Paul
>> KDE Usability Project
>> www.kde.org
>>
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