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Nyoro
July 28th, 2009, 12:42 AM
Hello,

Today I received an email apparently through my Ubuntu Brainstorm account (see next post for email).

I have asked around on IRC and noone seems to have gotten similar emails, and the survey looks a bit too much like a general market profiling questionnaire.

So I am suspicious (and in general too lazy to answer a questionnaire that claims to take 15 minutes while it obviously will take at least an hour), and wondering if this is legit. Anyone else seen this?

Nyoro
July 28th, 2009, 12:44 AM
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:54:21 +0000 (UTC)

Hi,

The user Dauphine from Ubuntu brainstorm sent you a message.

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Hello,

I’m writing to you because you have proposed one or more idea(s) on
Ubuntu Brainstorm website.
I am a Master 2 Marketing & Strategy student at the French University
Paris-Dauphine (http://www.dauphine.fr/) and for my thesis, I am
conducting a study on innovation.

For this study, I conducted an online questionnaire that you will
find here :
http://tinyurl.com/mlx9f2

I would be very grateful for taking the time to complete this online
questionnaire (approximately 15 minutes).

I would note that this questionnaire is completely anonymous. No
personal information is sought or will be released of any kind
whatsoever.

If you want additional information, the outcome or understand this,
do not hesitate to contact me: <anonymized by nyoro>@campus.dauphine.fr


I thank you and wish you a good day

Best regards,

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Madame, Monsieur,

Je me permets de vous contacter car vous avez proposé une ou
plusieurs idée(s) sur le site Ubuntu Brainstorm.
Je suis étudiant en Master 2 Marketing et Stratégie à
l’université française Paris-Dauphine (http://www.dauphine.fr/) et
dans le cadre de mon mémoire, je réalise une étude sur
l’innovation.

Pour mener à bien cette étude, j'ai réalisé un questionnaire en
ligne que vous trouverez à cette adresse :
http://tinyurl.com/l36c25

Je vous serais très reconnaissant de prendre le temps (10-15
minutes) de répondre à ce questionnaire en ligne.

Je tiens à préciser que ce questionnaire est strictement anonyme.
Aucune information nominative ou susceptible de vous identifier n'est
demandée.

Si vous souhaitez des informations complémentaires, connaître les
résultats ou mieux comprendre cette démarche, n’hésitez pas à me
contacter : <anonymized by nyoro>@campus.dauphine.fr

Je vous remercie et vous souhaite une bonne journée

Cordialement,

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To reply to this message, use Dauphine's email address:
<anonymized by nyoro>@campus.dauphine.fr

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Go to your profile at Ubuntu brainstorm and uncheck the relevant
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Best regards,
The Ubuntu brainstorm team.

RPG Master
July 28th, 2009, 02:37 AM
I looked through the survey and there is several references to Ubuntu. I think he's telling the truth.

DarwinSurvivor
August 8th, 2009, 01:41 PM
I got the same email and while there are several questions related to ubuntu brainstorm, there are also a LOT of quite personal questions that are not even linux related. I started doing the survey, but once I got to some of the more personal questions I decided to discontinue answering questions.

There does seem to be a bit of university-level thesises being written about ubuntu brainstorm. I had another person from back east try to interview me via Skype. We tried, but we could not for the life of use get Skype, Yahoo or even Gizmo to work properly in linux. Stupid audio drivers :(