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Subject : Open Source Research from RMIT - Delphi Survey on Infrastructure For Hosting Open Source Project (IFHOSP)
For quick reference, please refer to the point form summary in
the attachment.
Dear Sir/Madam,
You are invited to participant in an exciting and important
Delphi survey on the topic of Infrastructure For Hosting Open
Source Project (IFHOSP). IFHOSP is defined as the
infrastructure, which supports and co-ordinates the development
of Open Source software projects on the Internet.
This survey is being organised by myself, Haggen So, a doctoral
student at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology under
the supervision of Dr. Nigel Thomas. Experts from academic
circles as well as practitioners, such as Open Source developers
and maintainers of IFHOSP sites, will be invited to participate.
We hope that the results of the survey will be useful to Open
Source Communities as well as all those who are interested in
the topic. We also intend that this survey will be a learning
process for everyone involved and will facilitate the interaction
of experts and practitioners in an area of direct relevance to their
common interest.
The results of the survey will be used to develop an evaluation
model for IFHOSP and each item within the model will be
prioritised in order of its importance to the model.
The results and the evaluation model will be released to the
public under the Open Content License. We also intend that
this survey will be a learning process for everyone involved and
will facilitate the interaction of experts and practitioners in an
area of direct relevance to their common interest.
You will find more details of this survey at
http://seven.bf.rmit.edu.au/~haggen/Delphi/invited/ and if you
have a few minutes now please follow this link (you'll probably
find it easier to get it over now and then you'll have the
satisfaction of having helped the Open Source Communities
today!) Your UserID and password are XXX and YYY.
(IP address of seven.bf.rmit.edu.au is 131.170.198.7 in case
DNS does not work.)
Please be assured that participation is entirely voluntary and you
will be able to withdraw from the process at any time. All data
collected will be kept completely confidential and no results will
be reported in any manner that would associate yourself with
your answers. The results of the Delphi survey will published
on the web as well as other academic publications and the final
doctoral dissertation.
If you would like to obtain any further information on details of
the survey, please visit my web on
http://www.businessit.bf.rmit.edu.au/haggen/ or contact me via
e-mail at haggen@seven.bf.rmit.edu.au. Regarding issues of
ethics in research, please contact Professor Robert Brooks, Chair
of the RMIT Business Research Ethics Sub-Committee by
phone (613) 9925 5593 or by e-mail
Robert.Brooks@rmit.edu.au.
Your assistance is highly appreciated. I look forward to hearing
from you.
Yours Sincerely
Haggen So
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You are invited to participant in an exciting and important
Delphi survey on the topic of Infrastructure For Hosting Open
Source Project (IFHOSP).
Overall Goal of the Research Project:
To suggest improvements to the design of web sites that support
and co-ordinate Open Source Project (i.e. Infrastructure For
Hosting Open Source Project (IFHOSP)) by building an
evaluation model.
How can you help?
Go to
http://seven.bf.rmit.edu.au/~haggen/Delphi/invited/ now if
you have time
(You'll probably find it easier to get it over now and then you'll
have the satisfaction of having helped the Open Source
Communities today!)
Your UserID and password are XXX and YYY.
Your Rights
1. Participation is entirely voluntary.
2. Can withdraw from the process at any time.
3. All comments collected will be kept completely confidential
and no results will be reported in any manner that would
associate yourself with your comments.
4. The results of the Delphi survey will published on the web as
well as other academic publications and the final doctoral
dissertation.
Organisers of the survey
Haggen So, a doctoral student at the Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology under the supervision of Dr. Nigel Thomas.
If you would like to obtain any further information on details of
the survey, please visit my web on
http://www.businessit.bf.rmit.edu.au/haggen/ or contact me via
e-mail at haggen@seven.bf.rmit.edu.au. Regarding issues of
ethics in research, please contact Professor Robert Brooks, Chair
of the RMIT Business Research Ethics Sub-Committee by
phone (613) 9925 5593 or by e-mail
Robert.Brooks@rmit.edu.au.