Notification of the Availability of the result of Round 2 of Delphi Survey
This email was originally sent on 31 Dec 01.
Subject : Result Available on Open Source Research from RMIT - Round 2 of Delphi Survey
on Infrastructure For Hosting Open Source Project (IFHOSP)
Dear Dear Sir/Madam,
At last, the result of round 2 of Delphi survey is available.
Items in the questionnaire presented in order of their ratings and
also their controversies can now be found at
http://seven.bf.rmit.edu.au/~haggen/Delphi/result/round2/ and
you can also freely download this result into your computer and
distribute it. As today is the last day of the year 2001, round 3
of the Delphi survey will be conducted next year.
Please refer to the attachment for the background
and the ethics
issues of the survey. Thank you very much for your attention.
I wish you a happy new year.
Infrastructure For Hosting Open Source Project (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 and Mr. Hossein
Zadeh. Experts from academic circles as well as practitioners,
such as Open Source developers and maintainers of IFHOSP
sites, are 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.
Some legal advice on nickname system of the survey was
received and I had to replace all the nicknames that were related
to the name or the email address of the participants into
anonymous names. You can check your nickname at
http://seven.bf.rmit.edu.au/~haggen/Delphi/nick.php?userid=$UserID
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. On the other hand, you can also choose to have
your name listed in the credit section of the survey and a special
procedure will be setup for this purpose. The results of the
Delphi survey will be 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.