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Namoshek

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Registered: 2016-06-14

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Survey: Relevance of Configuration Systems in Free and Open Source Sof

Dear developers, contributors and caretakers of free and open source software.
If you are involved in the development of free and open source software (FLOSS) you are the person we are looking for.

It would be a great help if you take this survey:

http://elektra.limequery.org/625192

It will be available till 18.07.2016 (anywhere on earth).

For every thoroughly and not anonymously finished survey € 40 cent will be donated to one of the following organizations of your choice:

For every thoroughly and not anonymously finished survey € 40 (at least € 200 in total) cent will be donated.
The donation goes to one organisation of your choice.
You need to enter your e-mail address to participate.
Then you can select between following projects:

- LimeSurvey (LimeService, kindly hosts this survey)
- SPI (General Donation: 0 A.D., LibreOffice, Debian, ArchLinux, …)
- FSFE
- GNOME
- KDE
- Mozilla (Firefox)
- Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)

So if you know anyone suited for this survey please feel free to share it.

As part of the ongoing research on the topic of configuration systems in free and open  source software here at Vienna University of Technology, we would like to invite you to participate in this short survey. In a pilot study people only needed 15 minutes, promised!

By supporting us through this survey, you help the research by providing relevant input on this topic.
In addition the anonymised results will be released under an open licence, so other projects with involvement in configuration in free and open source software can benefit from it too.

In addition the results will be anonymised and made freely available.
Just leave your address at the end of the survey and we will send it to you.

For further questions regarding this survey or interest in the research of configuration systems feel free to contact as at survey@libelektra.org.

If you have not done it yet, we would appreciate if you take our survey http://elektra.limequery.org/625192 before the 18.07.2016.

MountainDewManiac

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From: Where Mr. Bankruptcy is Prez

Registered: 2013-03-24

Posts: 1,115

Re: Survey: Relevance of Configuration Systems in Free and Open Source Sof

I saw where you posted the same thing to one of the Xfce email lists - and that someone replied, asking why you posted your request from a Gmail account instead of (presumably) your official university email account. The person that was replying made the statement that this did not help your credibility :rolleye: .

I haven't seen your response - if any - yet. Like the person who wrote the above question and observation, I eagerly await your response.

Regards,
MDM

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Namoshek

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Registered: 2016-06-14

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Re: Survey: Relevance of Configuration Systems in Free and Open Source Sof

Your concerns are completely legit and reasonable, but I'll try to give you some answers.

It is correct that one of our group has posted the survey on the mailing list (as stated in the survey introduction, we are a group of students working on our thesis). We split the work of posting it to appropriate audiences because it requires some work to do so, obviously. We also put a lot of effort into the survey and did a pilot study in our near environment (collegues and friends) before sending it out to you.

The reason we do not use our university emails is that the email accounts will be deleted / taken from us after we graduate (and do not stay for further studying/research) and maybe also because some of us have already subscribed some mailing lists before. Losing an email may not be a big deal for a mailing list, but for accounts in boards it actually may be, so we tried to avoid that. Your point of using an official email is quite valid though, I have to admit.

To give you some connection to our university, our advisor linked the survey next to the underlying project (Elektra) on his profile/website: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/raab/

We are really sorry if the survey may have looked like spam to you, this was never intended.

Regards, Namoshek

MountainDewManiac

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Registered: 2013-03-24

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Re: Survey: Relevance of Configuration Systems in Free and Open Source Sof

Okay. Thank you for the explanation.

Regards,
MDM

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Namoshek

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Registered: 2016-06-14

Posts: 3

Re: Survey: Relevance of Configuration Systems in Free and Open Source Sof

I would like to gently remind all of you interested developers out there that the survey will be closed on 18.07.2016.

If you started filling out the survey and forgot to complete, it is now your chance to take this step. Of course we also welcome all new participants! You can find the survey here:

http://elektra.limequery.org/625192

We would also like to thank everyone who already participated in the survey!

Best regards, Namoshek