knowledge management in open source software communities

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Zilia
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knowledge management in open source software communities

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Dear Member of an Open Source Software Community,

I am a PhD student in e-Business in Durham University, Durham Business School (UK). My research topic is "Knowledge management and innovation in virtual organisations". The aim of my thesis is to assess how and to what extent knowledge is created, shared, and circulated in open source software (OSS) communities.

In my empirical studies I am collecting primary data from members/developers of OSS communities. This research is beneficial for OSS communities, because it will shed light on how and why knowledge-workers in OSS communities share their unique tacit know-how knowledge to create more innovative products/services. At the same time it is very important for my PhD study to find sufficient empirical data.

Because you are the one who can give me a correct picture of how you experience your contribution to OSS activities, I would be very grateful if you could spend no more than 15 minutes to answer my questionnaire (URL: http://www.dur.ac.uk/zilia.iskoujina/qq.htm). The information you provide will help me to reach the aim of my thesis. Your response will be kept strictly confidential.

There will be some prizes - after finishing the data collection, I will randomly select some respondents and send them gift vouchers for £20 from Amazon. A summary of the results will be e-mailed to you after the data has been analysed. Also I will place the summary of the results to my website (URL: http://www.durham.ac.uk/zilia.iskoujina/).

Thank you very much for your time and cooperation. I greatly appreciate your help in contributing to this research endeavour.

Zilia Iskoujina
PhD Student in e-Business

Durham University
Durham Business School

E-mail: zilia.iskoujina@durham.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.durham.ac.uk/zilia.iskoujina/
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Ollie Saunders
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Post by Ollie Saunders »

Wow this is cool. Shame the only open-source projects I've ever worked on I either wasn't programming or was the sole member :(
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That was an interesting survey. A little vague and hard to follow in some areas, but interesting none the less.
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