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.

Regards,

Haggen So

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Background of Survey


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.

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Ethics


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.