From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Asavaseri Natnaree To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Research survey: Impact of Microsoft Acquisition of GitHub Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:19:15 +0900 Message-ID: <6f20e79d252cf.5b4360d3@naist.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5310943200927508679==" List-Id: --===============5310943200927508679== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear IPFire developers,=C2=A0 I am Natnaree Asavaseri and currently undertaking a research internship at Na= ra Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. Note that we are not biased to= either GitHub or Microsoft, and this is purely from an empirical research pe= rspective.=C2=A0 As a part of my research in the field of Software Engineering (SE), my profes= sors and I are analyzing the impact of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. The= main purpose of my survey is understanding how developers perceive the Micro= soft's acquisition of GitHub, especially from contributors to Linux distribut= ions and BSD families. If the survey is successful, we will publish our findi= ngs at SE academic venues (journals or conference). So please consider voicing your opinion by allowing us up to 5 minutes to com= plete my short survey.=C2=A0 https://goo.gl/forms/lbIL5qsinDRQyTaK2=C2=A0 We would like to remind you that participation in this survey is completely v= oluntary and your identity is hidden for anonymity. Thank you for your time i= n advance.=C2=A0 Best regards,=C2=A0 Natnaree (cc Shade, Raula, Hideaki) Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan --===============5310943200927508679==--