Final Google Summer of Code Survey

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Andreas Schilling
<andreas.schilling at uni-bamberg.de> wrote:
> Dear „Google Summer of Code“ students,
>
> First of all, thank you for your participation in my last survey. I know you
> all had work to do, therefore, I really appreciate your help. Considering
> the relatively small sample of mentored students at KDE 2012, every single
> answer you have provided was very valuable to me for examining the lasting
> effects of mentoring initiatives.
>
> Today, I would like to ask you one more time for your help. Nearly three
> months have passed since you have started Google Summer of Code and the
> event is coming to its end. During your mentorship you have probably made
> considerable new experiences in KDE and learned new aspects in how to design
> and develop open source software. To account, for these experiences and how
> they might have changed your contribution motivation or continuance
> intentions, I would like to invite you to my final GSoC survey.
>
> Based on the concerns and suggestions of last years’ GSoC students I made
> this survey like the previous one non-public. To participate in it, please
> follow the link in the invitation email which should be in your inbox or
> your spam folder. If you have not received an invitation email yet, please
> contact me directly, not via the mailing list, so I can provide you with the
> private key to the survey.
>
> Based on your feedback to my last survey I did my best to eliminate all
> unnecessary questions which could have sound similar to you and replaced
> them with alternative questions. I hope you will like this survey more than
> the last one. If not please do not hesitate contacting me, I really
> appreciate every feedback.
>
> Finally, please let me thank you one more time for your help. Only because
> of you and your participation, I am able to evaluate the long-term effects
> of mentoring initiatives at KDE. I hope you are eager like I am to see how
> the lasting effects of mentoring initiatives at KDE look like. I assure you
> that I will publish the aggregated results on Lydia Pintscher’s weblog as
> soon as I finish my study. I whish you all the best for your career and your
> future.
>
> Thank you sincerely and see you
>
> Andreas

Thanks Andreas and everyone who filled out the surveys. I am looking
forward to the results and what they tell us about how we can make
KDE's mentoring programs even better in the future. It's great to see
considerable effort put into doing proper long-term analysis of our
work so we can go by more than just my gut-feeling ;-)


Cheers
Lydia

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KDE Community Working Group / KDE e.V. board member
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