[ooo-build] innovation in OSS

[Anna Granudd]

Hi,
I'm currently writing my master's thesis on the topic innovations within OSS
and am looking at if projects participating in Google Summer of Code 2009
led to more innovations compared to projects that did not participate. To
find out if this was the case, I have put together a small survey which I'm
now asking you to help me answer. Since it has been rather hard to get the
email addresses to the different projects, I hope you don't mind me sending
this to you. If you think you don't know enough of the project to be able to
answer the questions, maybe you could recommend me who might be better
suited for me to contact or forward this to them?

Even though the number of projects that participated is high (150 projects
2009) I really want you to help me answer this and not just dispose of it
because you think other people will answer it anyway. I successfully
participated myself in one of the projects and I realize you must be getting
questions from researchers all the time, but please help me out - as one
participant to another.

This study is not part of some study by Google, I chose the topic simply
because I'm really into open source and would like it to gain more attention
in the academic literature. The questions are all on the web in order to be
simple and quick to answer, please take the time and answer them as soon as
you can (I know I would probably think "I'll do it later"' and then forget
it, hence, please answer them right away if you can :)).

The survey can be found here: http://anna.is-a-geek.org


Thank you,
Anna Granudd
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