[Events] Is "Open Source Comes to Campus" needed?

[Karen Rustad]

I made a pad for brainstorming survey topics / questions:
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/floss-readiness-survey

-- Karen

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Excerpts from Jessica McKellar's message of Fri Feb 03 15:13:36 -0500 2012
> :
> > I would love to see this happen and help craft the survey /
> > investigate prior results in this space.
>
> My thoughts on the survey are that we should:
>
> * Try to ask questions that resemble to existing diversity-in-computing
>  surveys, so that we end up with comparable results.
>
> * Talk to someone who's active in FLOSS and social science, like Mako
>  or Kevin Carillo (who I spoke with recently about a survey he's doing
>  to understand how newcomers experience FLOSS projects).
>
> * Ask some fairly objective questions, like:
>
>  Have you ever taken a "patch" file and used it to modify a set of files,
> e.g.
>  software source code?
>
>  Have you used a version control system, such as git, CVS, Subversion, hg,
> bzr, etc.?
>
>  Have you ever filed an issue/ticket/bug to report a problem or
> feature-request
>  for a FLOSS project?
>
>  Have you ever read through a bug in an open source project's bug tracker
>  in order to understand a problem with a program?
>
> * Ask some fairly subjective, self-rated questions, like:
>
>  Are you interested in learning how to contribute to free, libre open
> source software?
>
>  For how many years have you (to your knowledge) used programs that count
> as FLOSS?
>
>  Do you have personal projects that you have released as open source?
>
> That's the kind of thing I'm thinking of; again, it's the kind of
> research that would show us if http://campus.openhatch.org/ is a good
> idea, and what sort of diversity impact it could have.
>
> -- Asheesh.
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