Survey Creation
We will show how we make a survey from inspirations, assumptions and target participants.
1. Related news
- Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
- Why GitHub Can’t Host the Linux Kernel Community
- Linux Foundation: Microsoft’s GitHub buy is a win for open source
- GitHub rivals gain from Microsoft acquisition but it’s no mass exodus, yet
2. Goal & Motivation
Goal
Understanding how do contributors of the Linux distributions and BSD families perceive Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub.
Assumption
- Developers are afraid of changes
- Developers have personal preferences
- Developers prefer the features of GitHub
- Developers are more interested in technical aspects
Target
We target contributors of Linux distributions/kernel and BSD families because they are likely to FLOSS developers, anyone cannot controlled them. Free is important and which may be influenced by the acquisition.
3. Survey platform
We choose Google forms as survey platform because it is all free and easy to contribute. However, we found later that many people don’t like Google form because of privacy concerns.