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> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:08:09 +0100
> From: John Paschoud <>
> Subject: FW: [LIS-ELIB] Satisfaction with free/open source software: survey
>  invitation
> To: 
>
> This survey's been posted to LIS-ELIB (mainly inhabited by UK academic
> Library techies) but might deserve a wider response from people using
> other relevant open source s/w such as Shibboleth  - which is actually
> most relevant to how libraries will provide a service to patrons;  but
> in danger of being overlooked because it's middleware.
>
> John
> --
> John Paschoud
> Projects Manager & InfoSystems Engineer
> LSE Library
> T: +44(0)20 7955 6129
> E: 
> (seconded to the JISC Federated Access Management Support Team:
> )
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JISC Electronic Libraries Programme
> [] On Behalf Of Ingrid Mason
> Sent: 15 October 2008 22:06
> To: 
> Subject: [LIS-ELIB] Satisfaction with free/open source software: survey
> invitation
>
> Apologies for cross-posting: 
>
> Ingrid Mason
> Digital Research Repository Coordinator
> ResearchArchive@Victoria
> Victoria University of Wellington
> Aotearoa New Zealand
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brenda Chawner
> Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2008 9:39 a.m.
> To: Ingrid Mason
> Subject: Satisfaction with free/open source software: survey invitation
> ----
>
> I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Information Management at
> Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and my research topic
> is an investigation of factors that influence participant satisfaction
> with library or information management free/open source software
> projects.
> Some
> library-related examples are DSpace, EPrints, Koha, Evergreen,
> Greenstone, and MyLibrary. More general information management software
> includes web content management software such as Drupal, wiki software
> such as MediaWiki or PmWiki, or blogging software such as WordPress.
>
> If you use or are involved with a relevant project, I would like to
> invite you to complete an online survey. I am especially interested in
> hearing from people in a range of roles, for example user, developer,
> release manager, or system administrator. I am keen to have responses
> from people who have had either positive or negative experiences with
> free/open source software, to ensure that I get a perspective on factors
> that diminish satisfaction, as well as those that contribute toward it.
>
> The results of this project will help developers of free/open source
> application software projects identify opportunities to increase user
> satisfaction, and it will also help users identify ways in which they
> might contribute to projects.
>
> I expect the survey to take between 15 and 20 minutes of your time. You
> may receive several copies of this message, since I am sending it to a
> number of project and library technology email discussion lists;
> however, I ask that you only complete the survey once. If you have
> colleagues who you think would be interested in completing it, please
> forward this invitation to them.
>
> The survey is available at:
>
> http://surveys.sim.vuw.ac.nz/survey.aspx?surveyid=205
>
> It will be available until Friday, 14 November, 2008.
>
> I will post a summary of the results to relevant project and library
> technology email discussion lists, once the thesis is finished in
> mid-2009.
> A copy of the thesis will be deposited in the Victoria University of
> Wellington Institutional Repository (http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/).
>
> If you have any questions about this survey, please contact me at
>  or phone +64 4 463 5780. My supervisors are
> Professor Gary Gorman, email  and Professor Sid
> Huff, email .
>
> Regards,
> --
> Brenda Chawner
> School of Information Management
> Victoria University of Wellington
> P O Box 600
> Wellington  NEW ZEALAND
> (04) 463 5780        fax (04) 463 5446        
>
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