I also took the survey and filled in whatever I could to help contribute to your survey.
Thank you.
But personally, I don't see the relevance of two questions in accordance with the theme of the survey itself, which is about (in my interpretation) how we contribute to openSuse. 1) The question about how worried we are regarding the Novell-MS patent. 2) The question about whether Novell should customize opensuse with red colors. Hey, I bleed red in support of Novell :-) But I don't see the relevance of this question either.
I am sorry that the first question is probably quite exhausted already. But the results already show that answers are evenly distributed, and it is interesting to know whether users contribute despite of their concerns, or if only users who are not concerned contribute. Whether the question of colors will prove interesting I will only know when I get to do some factor-analysis. It is merely one of several indicators of the topic of community autonimousity (if there is such a word). But I will find out if results of this question are irrelevant when analysis is done. This applies to all of the questions.
I agree also with Carlos' implication that the survey seems to define "contributions" as code, projects and such. I contribute to opensuse by helping others. I also contribute by asking questions which then raises the awareness of the usability of opensuse in its current form. The survey doesn't seem to recognize that level of contribution.
After asking around, I was under the impression that users who contribute with support on the main user list are very likely to also be registered to one or more of the other five mailing-lists. But I will either post the survey to this list or ask to have it put on the wiki. I need to clear this first, though. It is absolutely the intention that the study regards users who contribute with considerable support as active contributors. So i will include "user support" in the definition immidiately. Thanks again for your comments. Jan Fredrik
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