[ros-general] ReactOS case study

[Ged Murphy]

I'd forgotten about this.
Me too, although 1.5 hours over the phone is a little too much.


Alex Ionescu wrote:
> 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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