collaboration with Ubuntu-people for Master Thesis

[James Westby]

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 09:31 +0200, Jane Billestrup wrote:
> We are a group of students from the university of Aalborg, Denmark. We
> are currently working on our master thesis in computer science. We are
> examining open source development by employees and volunteers in commercial
> businesses.
> As part of that, we would like to conduct a number of interviews with
> developers involved with open source development in companies.
> 
> We expect interviews to last about an hour. The identity of the
> interview subjects will be kept confidential.
> 
> The interest of our study, is the planning and coordination of work.
> We would like to learn about the overall strategy for development, but
> are also interested in knowing how coordination takes place on a more
> detailed level. We are also interested in examining how the
> collaboration with a volunteer workforce is carried out.
> 
> We still need about 5 employees and 8 volunteers (the volunteers  
> should have made some larger contributions). For our interviews. The  
> interviews will take place using Skype if possible. The interviews  
> should be conducted within a week.

Hi,

They are still looking for volunteers to take part, as they are rather
short of participation, particularly from the community.

Their work is interesting, and I for one would like to see what they
find out.

I had an interview with Jane and the others today, and they had a lot
of interesting questions. It doesn't take too much time and would help
them a lot, so I suggest that you reconsider offering your time.

Thanks,

James