collaboration with Ubuntu-people for Master Thesis

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 03:49:37PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:26 PM, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I'll echo James' remarks.
> 
> I, too, interviewed with these guys.  It was painless, and
> interesting.  I'd encourage any other community members to
> participate, if you are able to!

The beef I usually have with university researchers and these open
source studies, is that they often don't provide the results back (at
least, not without having to troll through publications).  Oh and a
second beef is that there seems to be no end to these studies.  ;-)

Bryce