Research on open source programming bounties

From: Mark Chen (mark.chen_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: 24 Mar 2005 11:41:24 -0800

I'm a graduate student at Harvard Business School in Boston. I'm
conducting a survey on open source programming bounties similar to the
ones used by Gnome. In particular,
who works on them, who chooses not to, whether or not regular users
(not just the regular contributors) are attracted to them, etc.

If you're interested in helping out, I'm offering a chance to win a
$50 gift certificate to ThinkGeek or a $150 Ambient Devices Orb (your
choice) if you fill out a brief survey.
Go to http://poll.hbs.edu/poll/open/pollTakerOpen.jsp?poll=108578 to
fill it out.

Thanks!

I'd also welcome any other comments you might have on open source
bounties.

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