FLOSS-US, VietNam?

Can (VICE)-8 & HøLUG suggest a VietNamese translation of the following
survey for access online within VietNam, potentially in collaboration with
the Stanford project?

All the best,
AD.VICE@ParadoxCafe.Net
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From http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/ ::

FLOSS-US

The Free/Libre/Open Source Software Survey for 2003

To go immediately to the questionnaire, click here:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft.
Read on for more information about the survey.

Translations of this announcement: Dutch, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Portugese
Websites that have posted announcements of the FLOSS-US survey (click here)

A Survey of Software Developers

FLOSS-US is an online survey currently being conducted by researchers at
Stanford University’s Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
(SIEPR). It is a part of the study of the Economic Organization and
Viability of Open Source Software undertaken by SIEPR’s Knowledge, Networks
and Information for Innovation Program (KNIIP) which is being supported by
a grant from the National Science Foundation.

This survey has been designed in cooperation with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (MERIT
and Infonomics, University of Maastricht), who led the FLOSS survey of Open
Source/ Free Software developer communities, carried out with the
sponsorship of the European Commission during 2002.
[http://floss1.infonomics.nl]

To establish comparability with the previous sample of voluntary
respondents, FLOSS-US asks questions on the same range of topics that the
original FLOSS survey addressed, including:

· Motivation: monetary / non-monetary, reputation, pleasure,
creativity, jobs

· Expectations: what do you expect of others? What do they expect of
you?

· Organization: efficiency, quality, comparison with commercial software

· Law: intellectual property licenses, authorship, public domain

· Technology: preferred programming tools

In addition, developers are invited to provide information about their
experiences and opinions on several other issues, such as: extent and
intensity of OS/FS activities and project roles; relationships with
commercial enterprises based on Free/Libre/Open Source software; support of
OS/FS projects by proprietary software firms.

Announcements of this new online survey will be posted in languages other
than English, and at sites likely to be visited by developers in regions
outside as well as within western Europe and North America.

We will make public tabulated responses for each of the questions as soon
as the survey period is closed, and the results of our further analyses
will also be published on the SIEPR/KNIIP website. We are committed to
protecting respondents’ privacy: no personal identifiers will be stored
with your answers and responses will be reported in aggregates that will
prevent inferences about individual identities.

At the end of the questionnaire you will find links to to the SIEPR/KNIIP
website and further information about our project. When you have submitted
your response there will be an opportunity to comment on the questionnaire
itself, and to request any of the publications that will be based upon
analyses of the survey data.

If you are an Open Source/Free Software developer, please assist this
research:
Go to the questionnaire at
http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft and fill it out!

The Free/Libre/Open Source Software Survey for 2003

To go immediately to the questionnaire, click here:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft.
Read on for more information about the survey.

Translations of this announcement: Dutch, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Portugese
Websites that have posted announcements of the FLOSS-US survey (click here)

A Survey of Software Developers

FLOSS-US is an online survey currently being conducted by researchers at
Stanford University’s Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
(SIEPR). It is a part of the study of the Economic Organization and
Viability of Open Source Software undertaken by SIEPR’s Knowledge, Networks
and Information for Innovation Program (KNIIP) which is being supported by
a grant from the National Science Foundation.

This survey has been designed in cooperation with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (MERIT
and Infonomics, University of Maastricht), who led the FLOSS survey of Open
Source/ Free Software developer communities, carried out with the
sponsorship of the European Commission during 2002.
[http://floss1.infonomics.nl]

To establish comparability with the previous sample of voluntary
respondents, FLOSS-US asks questions on the same range of topics that the
original FLOSS survey addressed, including:

· Motivation: monetary / non-monetary, reputation, pleasure,
creativity, jobs

· Expectations: what do you expect of others? What do they expect of
you?

· Organization: efficiency, quality, comparison with commercial software

· Law: intellectual property licenses, authorship, public domain

· Technology: preferred programming tools

In addition, developers are invited to provide information about their
experiences and opinions on several other issues, such as: extent and
intensity of OS/FS activities and project roles; relationships with
commercial enterprises based on Free/Libre/Open Source software; support of
OS/FS projects by proprietary software firms.

Announcements of this new online survey will be posted in languages other
than English, and at sites likely to be visited by developers in regions
outside as well as within western Europe and North America.

We will make public tabulated responses for each of the questions as soon
as the survey period is closed, and the results of our further analyses
will also be published on the SIEPR/KNIIP website. We are committed to
protecting respondents’ privacy: no personal identifiers will be stored
with your answers and responses will be reported in aggregates that will
prevent inferences about individual identities.

At the end of the questionnaire you will find links to to the SIEPR/KNIIP
website and further information about our project. When you have submitted
your response there will be an opportunity to comment on the questionnaire
itself, and to request any of the publications that will be based upon
analyses of the survey data.

If you are an Open Source/Free Software developer, please assist this
research:
Go to the questionnaire at
http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft and fill it out!
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