European Commission launches developer survey

Posted 26 Feb 2002 at 10:59 UTC by grex Share This

FLOSS is a study currently under way at the Institute of Infonomics, University of Maastricht and Berlecon Research, Berlin, and includes an automated analysis of source code as well as a survey of developers. This survey is part of a significant study sponsored by the European Commission that includes policy recommendations and will be a source of valuable information for the Free/Open Source community, businesses and policy makers.

Why a survey? To get developers' own opinions on a range of issues related to Free Software / Open Source. The online questionnaire is specifically intended to provide a mirror to the Free Software / Open Source community.

The survey results will be updated and publicly available in real time even during the data collection period. Final results and analysis will also be freely published. At the time we are posting this news, over 650 developers have entered the questionnaire!

What do you think about

  • Technology: referred programming languages, operating systems
  • Law: licensing issues, copyright and intellectual property, authorship
  • Organisation: efficiency, quality, comparison of commercial software
  • Motivation: monetary / non-monetary, reputation, pleasure, creativity, jobs
  • Expectations: what do you expect of others? What do they expect of you?
  • Larger role: will Free Software/Open Source change the economy/society, or even just the commercial information technology industry?

Please see the questionnaire on the web site at http://floss1.infonomics.nl/ and fill it out!

For more information on the FLOSS study and contact details see http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/


What if you can't remember if you've filled it in?, posted 27 Feb 2002 at 15:38 UTC by gerv » (Master)

My memory is a little hazy :-) Is there any way of telling if I've already filled it in?

Gerv

What if you can't remember if you've filled it in?, posted 27 Feb 2002 at 15:49 UTC by gerv » (Master)

My memory is a little hazy :-) Is there any way of telling if I've already filled it in?

Gerv

Significant to who, the littlest, funniest, biggest, light turqyoyish? , posted 27 Feb 2002 at 16:22 UTC by mirwin » (Master)

Ok I fill out but now you have committments, I pretty baby, scream loud whenever feel like it. Studying dramatic user interfaces at disney university created to my specifications and tested by my lovers kids especially for unca mikie, he know how make lucky coins and pretend to show us

Michael R. Irwin, GM13 U.S.G. trained pit bull and doublecrossed feed him to the parasites we wasted enough time training him to do our jobs. over, kapish, out? maybe not Usenet flamefest ref sci.sci* Maybe you can get Henry and/or RK to steal me a shirt from somebody. or we do without for a while, spring is here and we can always turn up the lights or the heat lovers

See you at wikipedia or freepedia if you feel like it I promised a lovely lady that we would do science if one of the kiddies knew how to ask. They still got big J locked down, that team thinks they on summer vacation. Ray informs me that putting in the cold is harzardous to health, i wonder where extraordinary naval trained

... gotta go Ray have important message seinding out.

See you in the stacks. Mike

What if you can't remember if you've posted to this forum?, posted 27 Feb 2002 at 16:29 UTC by gerv » (Master)

My finger is a little itchy :-) is there any way Advogato can spot and eliminate duplicate posting?

;-)

Gerv

advogato, posted 27 Feb 2002 at 16:47 UTC by Malx » (Journeyer)

No way :)
BTW. If you have no censorship at all then you have no ability to edit or delete even your own or duplicate posts ;)

Interesting survey. Especially part about "do you have children?"....

Looks pretty shabby offer to me, posted 27 Feb 2002 at 16:48 UTC by mirwin » (Master)

We guarantee that any information about your person and your answers will be handled strictly confidential. No unauthorized party will have access to these data.

So how do I get authorized to see my own data. Last time I trusted a medical staff and every single safety line I though well enough anchored to avoid setting off armeggeddon the reality, not armeddon the game the propaganda, the drug you need I can be the very best pope I wish to be ...... did not work out well. Took a while to grow brain back.

Sincerely to a degree of total near uncertainty that I can pretend is absolutely certain regardless of what you anonymous cowards attempt to forget about. We see who stop holding breath first?

Oh, sorry. Got burned by best medical system money cann buy. United States certified AMA.

My apologies. I need to go settle down. I call the parks department and see how many dome tents we are allowed by the Grand Canal prototype nearby. I do not know what version it is but it is lovely. We having awesome training wormholes through the stone age to the age of rails, I think we have to skip canoeing unless clandestine or as part of civil defense practice alert. ..... I have connections local, ray knows lots of nice sabre kitties so we plan the infilration properly to film them making excuses and maybe get start buildng our crew boats?

ally ally in come free, combat engineers we do software if we have to, lets go create some tools to create some new universal canvas while genius hacker trainer/spoon feeders/ etc try to figure out why they spit more bugs out than they eat. and breed and breed.

We do analog for a while, it MUCH higher faster bandwidth anyway.

Check in with me or goingware or other teams forming nearby before visiting Boise. Very nice stodgy conservatives who do not mind us wandering around having fun (they build parks to reduce hazards to all) if we attempt to take responsibility and at least file flight plan regarding how we intend to escape the wrath and riot of eco terrorists if simply must forget it and bug out before an ancestor of a great one gets stepped on.

Bring your own logistics, I focused on some stuff and liquid capital is scarce. Might make it on the street corner begging or singing if we can take it from the trolls, grab the money and scoot, and avoid the combat air patrols and satellite spies ..... I have some buddies in Afghanistan that could use that!!!!

cc see you later lovers Michael R. Irwin www.wikipedia[[mirwin]] www.meta.wikipedia mirror project

"Innovations"?, posted 28 Feb 2002 at 00:40 UTC by tk » (Observer)

Interesting survey indeed. The creators of the survey must be credited for knowing

Besides the survey itself, one thing I found interesting was the (initial) survey results: many of the initial respondents seem to think that the FS/OSS scene is a good breeding ground for innovations -- even though the fact is that most open source software only reimplements ideas already found elsewhere.

"Innovations"?, posted 28 Feb 2002 at 00:46 UTC by tk » (Observer)

Interesting survey indeed. The creators of the survey must be credited for knowing something about the so-called `new economy', rather than just spewing hot air about it.

Besides the survey itself, one thing I found interesting was the (initial) survey results: many of the initial respondents seem to think that the FS/OSS scene is a good breeding ground for innovations -- even though the fact is that most open source software only reimplements ideas already found elsewhere.

Innovations!, posted 28 Feb 2002 at 14:18 UTC by abraham » (Master)

I don't think "most" free software projects just reimplements ideas from elsewhere. Well "most" never do anything new _or_ old, but of those that actually produce working code, I suspect a lot are academic or otherwise research oriented. They just get less publicity than the more conservative production oriented projects (like GNU). Which is not surprising, implementations of well-tested ideas are far more likely to produce something useful, than projects with more experimental goals.

TeX/Metafont are an example of an academic project that broke the barrier, and became directly useful. X11 is another example. BSD a third. GCC and Bison took an indirection, they were initially based on (at the time) new academic research, but not a part of that research themselves. they may count as innovations nonetheless, as they brought the research out of academia.

And even the conservative projects provide a nice platform for smaller innovations, like the "-u" switch to GNU diff.

scope of FS/OS innovations, posted 28 Feb 2002 at 22:14 UTC by jbuck » (Master)

Free software/open source has done a good job of innovating in providing environments for programmers. Consider Perl and Python, both highly original programming languages/environments. Consider Emacs.

It hasn't done so well in the case of applications for non-programmers; in those areas it seems that almost everything is a clone. (Well, there is TeX, but you have to think like a programmer, not like a writer, to use it).

advogato could provide a mechanism ..., posted 28 Feb 2002 at 22:18 UTC by jbuck » (Master)

All advogato needs to do is to give a contributor the ability to delete his/her post for a limited time, say, a half hour, or until another person replies, whichever is shorter. After the timeout the post becomes permanent. This would suffice to clean up the duplicate post problem without giving people a way of using the "memory hole" to remove embarrassments.

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