[Gfoss] Fwd: Research Study: Open Source Developers on the fence between company and community

[piergio]

Ciao a tutti

Vi giro questa interessante proposta  (ovviamente con il consenso del 
mittente) :).
Sentite liberi di girarla a chiunque riteniate opportuno.

Saluti

Piergiovanna




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From: Thomas Zerbach <tzerbach a uni-koblenz.de>
Date: 2013/3/12
Subject: Research Study: Open Source Developers on the fence between 
company and community
To: Competence Center - Italy2 <info a softwarelibero.it>


Dear ladies and gentlemen,

I am contacting you as I found you listed as a national competence 
centre by the Joinup platform of the European Commission. My Name is 
Thomas Zerbach, I'm a research assistant at the University of 
Koblenz-Landau (Germany) currently working on a research study which 
revolves around the job situation of (professional) open source 
developers. The goal of the study is to gain insights on the effect of 
developers' double commitment to the open source community and the 
organization.

In the literature, this specific situation has gained hardly any 
attention so far. Yet after starting to contact developers I so far 
earned only positive feedback and respondents indicated that this topic 
is highly relevant to them.

I am contacting you with the hope of getting any kind of support in 
order to reach a bigger target audience that could contribute to the 
research. Here are some main facts about the study:

Who is the target group?

The study is aimed at employed software developers who also work with 
open source code and therefore are to some extent dependant on the open 
source community.

Why should developers participate?

1. They can support social projects and a startup company at the same time!

As an incentive, the University of Koblenz-Landau offers participants 
the opportunity to donate real money invested by the University to 
social projects after completing the survey. This offer is part of a 
collaboration with the startup company socialfunders, which specializes 
on corporate giving processes. More information on the socialfunders can 
be found here: https://www.socialfunders.org/.

2. They can make their voice heard!

The research study aims at deriving managerial implications for 
organizations to improve their employees' job situation. Participants 
can also gain insights in the situation of fellow open source developers 
if they want to receive a rehashed version of the research results after 
the completion of the study.

How much effort is required?

Only about 10 minutes of their time. All information will of course be 
treated anonymously and solely be used for scientific purposes.

Link to the research study:

http://ww2.unipark.de/uc/kb_uni_koblenz_kilian_ls/d20b/

I hope I was able to catch your interest. If you can think of a way how 
to support me with my research (e.g. by forwarding this message or 
incorporating this information in a newsletter/ internal forum) or if 
you have any questions regarding the research study feel free to contact me.

I am looking forward to hearing from you!

Best Regards,

Thomas Zerbach
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E-Mail: tzerbach a uni-koblenz.de
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Universität Koblenz-Landau
Lehrstuhl für Informationsmanagement und Organisation
Universitätsstr. 1
56070 Koblenz
www.uni-koblenz.de