OSU OSL survey of open source developers

[Mark Waite]

The Oregon State University Open Source Laboratory has been a Jenkins sponsor for many years.  We continue to rely on them for two mirrors in the United States.

They've sent the following invitation to participate in a survey related to recognizing and acknowledging open source maintenance work.  I'm sharing it here in case there are Jenkins developers that are willing to answer the survey.

Thanks,

Mark Waite

The survey invitiation:

Hosted projects,

I am reaching out to share an important initiative led by Professor Anita Sarma [1] from Oregon State University. The project aims to recognize and acknowledge "glue work" in Free and Open Source Software projects. Glue work includes essential tasks such as mentoring, maintenance code, bug fixing, and documentation, which are critical to the health of FOSS projects but often go unrecognized.

Professor Sarma has a distinguished history of contributions to the FOSS community. Her work includes projects like Palantír, which raises awareness among configuration management workspaces [2], and Tesseract, an interactive visual exploration tool for socio-technical relationships in software development [2]. She has also focused on making FOSS more inclusive by identifying errors in user interaction design [3].

To better understand where glue work can be traced and how it can be appropriately acknowledged, a survey has been designed. Your participation in this survey would be incredibly valuable. It takes just 5 minutes to complete and will help spotlight the full spectrum of contributions that keep our FOSS projects thriving.

Please take a moment to fill out the survey and share your insights:

https://oregonstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_72LK7QHqqCwoqW2

Thank you for your time and contribution to this important effort. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!

Thanks!

[1] https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/people/anita-sarma

[2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=shMjCasAAAAJ&hl=en

[3] https://blog.communitydata.science/fossy-wrap-up-anita-sarmas-lightning-talk-on-inclusion-bugs/

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Lance Albertson

Director

Oregon State University | Open Source Lab 

[wfoll...@cloudbees.com]

FTR I got "Sorry, this survey is not currently active.", after 8 days, not sure it's expected.

[Mark Waite]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM 'wfoll...@cloudbees.com' via Jenkins Developers <jenkin...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

FTR I got "Sorry, this survey is not currently active.", after 8 days, not sure it's expected.

I see the same thing.  I assume that means they have enough responses to meet their needs.

Mark Waite