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Do a set of widely-distributed brief surveys that reaching out to the following major groups (and that asks them questions such as). We both want to:
- identify large trends
- understand how the major trends are viewed by the major groups of key participants.
- raise awareness of education programs focused on FLOSS nad participatory onlikne projects (like Wikipedia) and relevant resources (such as relevant Mozilla programs, COSTAR, CDOT and so on)
- educators, asking:
- what educational institution(s) do you instruct at?
- What topic(s) do you provide instruction in?
- What is your educational institution's position on FLOSS? Unknown / Very Negative / Negative / Neutral / Positive / Very Positive
- What is your department's position on FLOSS? Unknown / Very Negative / Negative / Neutral / Positive / Very Positive
- What is your position on FLOSS? I don't know enough about the topic to comment / Strongly positive / Positive / Neutral / Negative / Strongly Negative
- Do you believe that FLOSS is an important part of the topics you provide instruction in? (Sliding scale from relevant to not relevant)
- How much instruction do you provide on FLOSS-related topics? None / Incidental instruction when students ask / A minor part of one course / A complete unit within a course / A complete course / An integrated part of the curriculum
- Do you allow students to integrate FLOSS project work with their studies?
- FLOSS companies, asking
- What is your annual budget for sponsoring FLOSS educational efforts? 0 / < $1000 / < $10,000 / < $100,000 / $100,000+ / Some, but amount unknown / Unknown / Can't disclose
- If you sponsor FLOSS educational efforts, can you list some or all of the efforts?
- How many practicum and/or internship opportunities for students do you provide each year? 0 / ...
- FLOSS projects, asking
- Does your project officially participate in any FLOSS educational efforts?
- If you participate in FLOSS educational efforts, can you list some or all of the efforts?
- FLOSS-centric non-profits, asking
- Does your project officially participate in any FLOSS educational efforts?
- What is your annual budget for sponsoring FLOSS educational efforts? 0 / < $1000 / < $10,000 / < $100,000 / $100,000+ / Some, but amount unknown / Unknown / Can't disclose
- If you sponsor or participate in FLOSS educational efforts, can you list some or all of the efforts?
- FLOSS project participants, asking:
- Does you participate in any FLOSS educational efforts? If so, which projects?
- students, asking
- what educational institution(s) do you attend?
- what program(s) are you taking?
- how much of your instruction relates to Free and Open Source Software? None / one or more complete courses focuses on
- are students permitted to use participation with FLOSS projects as
With each survey, we will ask permission to publish participant responses anonymously, permission to contact the individual in the future, permission to contact the individual to followup on the survey questions and, in some cases, permission to identify participants with their responses.