<div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/2 James Westby <<a href="mailto:jw%2Bdebian@jameswestby.net">jw+debian@jameswestby.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">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. </div>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</blockquote><div> I've scheduled an interview with them for Monday. Evan Murphy</div></div>