Dear publicity team, together with Molly de Blanc and Mathieu ONeil, I've been working to prepare the first edition of what we'd love to become a yearly survey of Debian contributors. We'd like to launch it next week and keep it open for a few weeks (max: 1 month). The goal of the survey is twofold. The first is to take a snapshot of the community of Debian contributors throughout the usual demographics, and see how it evolves over time. The second is to focus on specific questions that might change from one edition of the survey to another; the one we're focusing on for the first edition is the amount of volunteer vs paid work that Debian contributors pour into the making of our distribution. The survey will target all Debian contributors, from bug reporters up to the formal roles inscribed in our Constitution. It will be run on the Free Software platform LimeSurvey. Participation in the survey will be entirely anonymous and all questions will be optional. Myself, Molly, and Matthieu will be responsible for data protection. At the end of the survey we will publish the results in aggregate form only and discuss them in a publicly available report. In terms of promotion of survey participation, we were thinking of starting with announcing it on d-d-a (tentatively: next Monday, Oct 31st) and reiterating it via personal blogs syndicated on planet.d.o. But of course we'd love to hear from you what you think would be best. Would you be interested in having a blog post about this for bits.d.o? Anything else you'd recommend? If you're interested, we can certainly circulate here a draft of the survey announcement. Let us know, thanks! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . zack@upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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