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Hi Joerg
Thanks for your questions, see my responses below.
From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2023 8:49 To: Mathieu O'Neil <mathieu.oneil@anu.edu.au>; debian-project@lists.debian.org <debian-project@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Fresh thread - 2023 Debian Project survey: Sustainability On 17049 March 1977, Mathieu O'Neil wrote:
>> • Survey responses are anonymous, IP and HTTP information are not >> logged, and all questions are optional. As it is still likely possible >> to determine who a respondent is based on their answers, results will >> only be distributed in aggregate form, in a way that does not allow >> de-anonymisation. >That "likely" is better worded as "for a great number of people >anonymity will not exist for anyone seeing the real answers". >Also, that aggregate form would need to somehow mangle the following 3 >questions up pretty good, I think. >A03 formal status >A04 which 3 teams most involved >A05/A05a which other foss projects involved in >Those are enough to ditch about any anonymity I think, combine it >with B01c to make it easy enough for even an AI to find out who the >submitter is. I might be an extreme example, but for me it would be >enough to truthfully answer A04 (archive, new-maintainer, salsa) and >confirm it with A05a putting OFTC..." All response collected with LimeSurvey will be downloaded to a password-protected device in the University of Canberra and the data on LimeSurvey will be deleted after downloading. All the data analysis
will be done locally, no cloud computing will be applied to prevent AI from obtaining the data. To better prevent reidentification, the raw data will not be shared to the Debian developers in our research team. Only aggregated results will be shared with the
whole team for interpretation.
>B01c only loses when someone works for a real big company.
The reason we kept this question from the 2016 Survey is to investigate how firms’ engagement in Debian has changed over time, but all the questions in the survey are voluntary, if you feel uncomfortable
answering any question feel free to skip it.
We could add a sentence in this question like “If you feel uncomfortable to answer it, feel free to skip it and move on to the next one”. Would that help?
cheers
Mathieu
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