collaboration with Ubuntu-people for Master Thesis

[Evan Murphy]

2009/4/2 James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net<jw%2Bdebian at jameswestby.net>
>

> 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


I've scheduled an interview with them for Monday.

Evan Murphy
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