'Open Sourcing' Survey

[John Arbash Meinel]

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martin f. krafft wrote:
> Dear bzr developers, please allow me to forward the following email
> from my professor to you. The bzr project with Canonical in the
> background seems ideal for the survey, so if some or all of you
> would take five minutes of your time (it really doesn't take longer,
> it's single page and requires no login or cookies), it would be
> highly appreciated!

Well, it does set a cookie when you submit the survey. But it didn't
take very long to submit.

> 
> Also, if you can think of another of Canonical's projects except bzr
> and Ubuntu where the survey would apply, please go ahead and forward
> it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
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> Dear FLOSSer,
> 
> We are doing some research on company-driven open sourcing, whereby
> companies release what has typically been a proprietary product as open
> source and seek to grow a community of developers around it. Both the
> company and the developer community have mutual expectations of each
> other, and if these are not fulfilled, the initiative may not be
> successful.

As Aaron mentioned, Canonical didn't have a proprietary thing that they
made open source. Neither Ubuntu or Bazaar started that way.

Instead, Canonical adopted an already open source project, and provided
company support for it. Reading through the survey, the questions still
seem relevant, but you should be aware of the difference.

The one project that is proprietary at Canonical is Launchpad. And I
believe they are open sourcing parts of it, such as Rosetta (the
internationalization package). However, I don't know if any actual
pieces have been open sourced at this point.

> 
> We have derived a set of expectations for successful open-sourcing and
> would like your feedback on these at
> http://www.calibre.ie/survey/index.php
> 
> Pre-testing suggests that this questionnaire can be completed in about 5
> minutes and you may win a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.
> 
> We would be grateful if you could forward this to any other relevant
> parties. We will be disseminating the research results widely (and a
> copy would of course be available).
> 
> 
> Brian Fitzgerald

John
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