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BastienW
May 17th, 2012, 07:57 PM
Hi all,

As I introduced myself in the relevant thread, I am conducting a Master Thesis research on online community-based innovation, with a specific focus on Ubuntu.

My goal is to measure Ubuntu contributors' motivations to the Ubuntu project as a whole and to Ubuntu Brainstorm in particular, through a very short questionnaire. I would really appreciate it if you could offer five minutes of your time to fill it in.

Direct link to the questionnaire: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHY0VmF5STJaNzhucGc4QWtSaGRfeFE6M A

I will communicate on the results in June. I hope many of you will find the time to answer.


Thanks in advance,

Bastien


PS: If anyone is interested in my research, I will be very pleased to discuss it further.
BastienW
May 18th, 2012, 03:29 PM
Hi guys,

Little update, since only three of you have participated for now!

Please keep it up. :)


Cheers,

Bastien
matt_symes
May 18th, 2012, 03:38 PM
Done :D

And a free *bump*
MG&TL
May 18th, 2012, 04:01 PM
Also done...although many of them were 'positive' questions, which made me agree with them. Not that I'm going to argue with a master's student...:P
Erik1984
May 18th, 2012, 04:58 PM
Wish I would've been so smart to choose Ubuntu as a subject of my Master's thesis. :p
BastienW
May 18th, 2012, 09:05 PM
Thanks for your contributions, eight of you have already filled in the questionnaire!

If anyone would like to discuss the topic any further, I will be very pleased to include him/her in my qualitative interviews. :)


Thanks,

Bastien
Irihapeti
May 19th, 2012, 12:23 PM
Done.

Does that make nine, or more?
Toz
May 19th, 2012, 12:38 PM
Done as well. Good luck.
georgelappies
May 19th, 2012, 12:59 PM
Submitted
BastienW
May 19th, 2012, 01:01 PM
Thank you all!

13 answers for now!


Nice! :)
BastienW
May 22nd, 2012, 08:16 PM
Update : 15 people have filled in the questionnaire! Thank you very much.

Let's keep it up! :)
IWantFroyo
May 22nd, 2012, 08:21 PM
Submitted.

Good luck. :)
kevdog
May 23rd, 2012, 12:34 AM
I filled out the first page of the survey, but when the second page started asking about brainstorm and such --- I've never heard of it -- so all my questions would be a no or left blank -- unfortunately that's not really an option. No harsh feelings, but a poorly written survey unless this is a practice survey to further refine a future survey.
user1397
May 23rd, 2012, 01:07 AM
submitted
BastienW
May 23rd, 2012, 07:43 AM
@kevdog: Point taken. The question has a twist "what motivates or could motivate you ...". Anyway, I changed the survey so that this question is no longer compulsory.

Thanks for your answers!
chamber
May 23rd, 2012, 10:25 AM
In what socio-professional category do you fall in?

I'm not sure that the choices for this question are really as polished as they could be.

As kevdog said is this a practice survey or the actual thing?
josephmills
May 23rd, 2012, 10:34 AM
done and *bump*
BastienW
May 23rd, 2012, 10:32 PM
Thank you all, 24 answers up to now!

@chamber: the socio-professional category item is the translation of the French classification, and as I'm also conducting this survey in the French community, I need the same criteria for comparison.
rg4w
May 24th, 2012, 01:25 AM
submitted
wilee-nilee
May 24th, 2012, 03:48 AM
Done.
BastienW
May 25th, 2012, 07:45 PM
Thanks, 26 of you have replied! :)
samitharansara
May 25th, 2012, 10:17 PM
Done and good luck with your thesis ...
georgelappies
May 26th, 2012, 08:21 AM
Surely we can get more then 26 forum goers to assist with this. It won't take more than 5 minutes of your time ;)

Bump
matt_symes
May 26th, 2012, 10:34 AM
Surely we can get more then 26 forum goers to assist with this. It won't take more than 5 minutes of your time ;)

Bump

Quite. Don't be lazy :)

*bump*