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baenaremoto

Hello, my name is Jose Rafael Guijarro,
I am a student at the University of Cordoba, Spain (UCO), and I am preparing
the final paper Masters in Rural Development and Planning. I have a degree in
economics and business administration and worked as a manager of a Rural
Development Group (website: http://www.adegua.com/principal.html; Facebook:
http://es-es.facebook.com/adegua ? sk = wall & filter = 2; Blogs:
http://www.planetaki.com/adegua).

I would like your help to study the motivations that lead
a person to collaborate on a project like yours, open source.

I think it is of interest to the OSE project such
college-level studies that will be creating partnerships between the project
and academia. The methodology I use is the development of a brief survey in
which members show their motivations OSE for participation.

I want to emphasize that the results of this work will be
fully available to OSE and have Creative Commons license.

In this sense, my own intellectual preferences leads me to
wonder why people spend their time and expertise to communal, open and
participatory. So far the approaches from the body of classical economic theory
defined: Man acts to maximize its profit.

Thus we come to the point of view as knowledge (real
engine of the future of humanity) can be managed open source, like a common
resource (following Elinor Ostrom) and which by its nature is difficult, but
not impossible to exclude users (or potential) to use or benefit from its use.

So, my interest is to identify the values that
have members (OSE), for this I have written this short survey (brief because the respondent
must answer in a short space of time between 5 and 10 minutes). The answer will
be posted on the yellow heat boxes, almost all have a list of answers to
facilitate the task.
The organization of OSE asks that you send me the answers
to nikolay@opensourceecology.org.

Thank you for your time and participation, I sincerely
hope that this work will help define a new way of interpreting the Economy ever
closer to the people and their needs.

Allen15

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/

is a link to Eric Raymond's site where you could read most of the content of his book by the title "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".

This may give you a better insight to why Open Source works than any survey you could post, because when I looked at your survey, it didn't seem to have anywhere that you are asking "Why do I participate?". (I chose to decline further participation after reading it, as I didn't feel that some of the information that you could be collecting is or should be public, & there is no measure in place to protect personally identifiable information if we each send it in via email - it isn't anonymous).

Why I do it? (In case you wanted to know)

It is completely selfish & self-serving. I can gain from the collective efforts of the group much more than I could have gotten by working in isolation, for less money, and with greater output in less time than I could do by myself ;)

I have donated monetarily to this & other Open Source efforts also, because many of them have either saved my butt, or otherwise bailed me out of a bind when I had a problem that I couldn't solve in isolation. So far, I think I've still gotten more than I've contributed, even from OSE, and I'm a fully pre-paid "True Fan".

For example, I was in the market for a used backhoe, and came across OSE some time back. Since I've discovered Life-Track, I now know that I can build a machine to meet my needs for a fraction of the $40K I was expecting to drop on that tractor, and make it to fit my needs better, plus I can repair it when necessary, instead of being at the mercy of a distant & expensive dealer. After that, so what, if I blow $240 on supporting this movement? Anything else is icing on the cake, and they're not done yet :)

baenaremoto

Hi Allen15.

I fully understand the hacker culture and explain what
I (and I personallyshare).

Further research is
needed on hacker culture that drives me
to do this research, which I understand is difficult
for you, but it will help promote the
project SBI,especially in Europe.
To ensure the
anonymity of their participation responses should be
sent to a Member's OSE, which in turn send them
to me me.
I sincerely believe that anonymity is
guaranteed and if you analyze the survey
questions will not have any interest at the
individual level but by the aggregation of values of
the participants.
Working to promote the culture of free
and open source also requires academic research of
this type, to make open source a real alternative for
society.
Thank you sincerely for your comment and
please consider participating and encouraging colleagues
to respond to the survey and thus disclose more open
source movement and especially of OSE.

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