On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:56:02 +0200 Sebastian Tischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good afternoon, > > my name is Sebastian Tischer and I am student of business and economics > at the university of technology in Dresden. > At the end of these studies it is mandatory to write a bachelor thesis > which is the last exam before having officially finished the studies. > > The topic of my thesis is: "Open Source Software - An analysis of the > integration of external knowledge carriers based on selected examples". > > What does this topic actually mean? > > I am investigating and analyzing various open source companies about the > way they handle external knowledge of users, contributors and developers. > These information will be compared with the structure of the company, > the used tools, techniques and documentations. > > At the end I want to draw a conclusion with the effect, telling which > company makes the best use of external knowledge and where might be > improvement. > > For that purpose I have a few question prepared and would be very happy > if you support me answering these questions in order to complete my > survey and the thesis resulting on them... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1. Who is allowed to contribute to the source code? > > 2. Which criteria need to be fulfilled to contribute? > > 3. What control mechanisms exist to check which code gets into the > productive system? > > 4. How is the approval process going on to let people contribute? > > 5. What can be contributed by developers or users? Where is the cut > within the development process (untouched parts of the application)? > > 6. What system is used to contribute? Git? > > 7. Is it possible to develop within the core sourcecode? Change core > functionalities or just fix bugs and create extensions? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > If you don't like to get mentioned as source within these paper, then > this is no problem! I will only use the given information then and treat > your answers completely anonymous... > > If you have any further question regarding my survey feel free to ask > them anytime. > Best wishes and thank you in advance You might find it of use to review this topic on the en-Forum, where a number of Swedish students posed various questions to the Forum volunteers on the subject of OpenSource programming. http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=105 -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>
