[ros-general] ReactOS case study

[Alex Ionescu]

Hi,

I'd be glad to participate, whether by phone or email.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

Roman Hoegg wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> 
> My name is Roman Högg (RomanH) and I have occasionally posted to this 
> mailing list and the web site forum in the past for a variety of reasons. 
> (offering/asking for help, submitting the Swiss German keyboard layout, 
> etc.) I now contact you for something completely different.
> 
> Together with the Helsinki School of Economics, Luleå University of 
> Technology, Nokia and IBM Business Services, our institute ( 
> http://www.mcm.unisg.ch ) is conducting a study called 
> "Collabora-tion4Innovation (C4I)". The study is funded by the European 
> Commission and is examining the im-pact of diversity within teams on 
> factors such as innovation, creativity and productivity. By diversity we 
> mean things like cultural diversity, different skills, different 
> educational backgrounds, etc.
> 
> In the first phase of the project we are currently conducting a number of 
> case studies from a variety of areas. The goal is to find the "state of 
> the art" and later define areas in which further research is needed (e.g. 
> organisational aspects such as process design, improving collaboration 
> technologies, etc.) Since ReactOS is - as far as I can see - developed by 
> a pretty diverse set of people (developers from different countries, 
> probably with different skills and non-developers/users/testers that try 
> to improve the software in whatever way they can) I wanted to ask whether 
> it would be possible to conduct a "Reac-tOS Case Study". I think it would 
> be nice to not only have companies in the case studies.  If you agree to 
> this idea, I would like to conduct interviews with 2-3 persons of you (in 
> English or German, most likely via phone). Each interview would last 
> between 45 minutes and 1,5h maximum. (or I could send the 
> questionnaire/interview guide in advance and we would only discuss the 
> more open questions over the phone). After the interviews I would condense 
> everything into a 3-4 page description of the project and the aspect of 
> diversity. You would then get that text and could tell me whether you 
> agree with it or whether I would have to change things. Nothing will be 
> published without your consent! Unfortunately I can't offer you any money 
> for the collaboration, but I think the study will give the project some 
> additional promotion and, if you want to, you may of course use my text 
> for documenta-tion purposes.
> 
> Please let me know what you think and thank you very much!!!
> 
> kind regards
> 
> Roman
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> Roman Högg
> Research Assistant
> 
> =mcm institute 
> for Media and Communications Management
> University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
> Blumenbergplatz 9, 9000 St. Gallen
> Phone +41 (0)71 224 34 39
> Mobile +41 (0)79 418 59 13
> e-mail roman.hoegg at unisg.ch
> http://www.mcm.unisg.ch
> http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/Personen/Roman_Hoegg
> 
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