Dear members of pd-dev,
I'm writing to ask you to take part in an online survey which I developed as part of a larger study on different types of virtual work groups carried out by the Austrian Center of Social Innovation (ZSI) [1]. Within this project, my role is to provide a case study on open source software development. Having an artistic background myself (I graduated from the University of Applied Arts and worked with various cultural projects here in Vienna[2] and NYC [3]), a deep interest in open source software and knowing some of the Austrian list members personally, looking at the pd community was a natural choice for my case study. I hope you don't mind this.
Over the last couple of weeks, I conducted a series of interviews (mostly f2f) with pd'lers to get a deeper sense of the history / practice of the pd project. In addition to this qualitative data, I would like to collect some quantitative data as well. This is were you and the survey come in.
Please take a few minutes to look at it and fill it out :)
Survey: http://oss.zsi.at login: pdsurvey pw: ppddpdpp
The survey is designed to respect your privacy and will be open for the next ten days. After that, I will analyze the data and share it with you. I hope my results will be also of interest to you, it might provide you with some feed back on the dynamics/motivations of pd as a group that might otherwise be less accessible. I hope that will be a fair exchange for the time that I ask you to take to fill in this survey.
If you have any further questions, please contact me directly.
grtz. Andrea
[1] http://www.zsi.at [2] http://www.femalepressure.net [3] http://bbs.thing.net