Rails - Jun 2007 - knowledge management in open source software communities

Dear Member of an Open Source Software Community,

I am a PhD student in e-Business in Durham University, Durham Business
School (UK). My research topic is "Knowledge management and innovation
in virtual organisations". The aim of my thesis is to assess how and to
what extent knowledge is created, shared, and circulated in open source
software (OSS) communities.

In my empirical studies I am collecting primary data from
members/developers of OSS communities. This research is beneficial for
OSS communities, because it will shed light on how and why
knowledge-workers in OSS communities share their unique tacit know-how
knowledge to create more innovative products/services. At the same time
it is very important for my PhD study to find sufficient empirical data.

Because you are the one who can give me a correct picture of how you
experience your contribution to OSS activities, I would be very grateful
if you could spend no more than 15 minutes to answer my questionnaire
(URL: http://www.dur.ac.uk/zilia.iskoujina/qq.htm). The information you
provide will help me to reach the aim of my thesis. Your response will
be kept strictly confidential.

There will be some prizes - after finishing the data collection, I will
randomly select some respondents and send them gift vouchers for £20
from Amazon. A summary of the results will be e-mailed to you after the
data has been analysed. Also I will place the summary of the results to
my website (URL: http://www.durham.ac.uk/zilia.iskoujina/).

Thank you very much for your time and cooperation. I greatly appreciate
your help in contributing to this research endeavour.

Zilia Iskoujina
PhD Student in e-Business

Durham University
Durham Business School

E-mail: zilia.iskoujina-VlwAjOFxKoqFxr2TtlUqVg@public.gmane.org
WWW: http://www.durham.ac.uk/zilia.iskoujina/

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