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[Lazarus-general] Request to engage in the survey to optimize the design for User Experience in the development process of Lazarus

[Phesto P. N. <phe...@go...>]

 Hello Members

We are currently conducting a study that aims to optimise User Experience
(UX) in the development processes of Free and Open-source software (FOSS),
including Lazarus. This study believes that delivering projects of this
nature with desirable UX is an organisational effort. Therefore, precisely
comprehending what make FOSS projects with desirable UX, integrating them
in the development processes, and optimally assessing these processes are
mandatory.

UX is still ambiguous and what create several FOSS projects with desirable
UX are still unknown. Moreover, although these projects offer immense
contributions, they are not widely adopted, and UX is recurring as the
significant cause of ongoing adoptions misfortune. The FOSS community has
not done enough to address these challenges. Therefore, to dig deeper into
this problem, we have developed a questionnaire with several UX influencing
factors seeking FOSS stakeholders' perceptions.

The developed questionnaire provides evidence rather than opinions when
capturing insights into how stakeholders in the FOSS community perceive UX
influencing factors. Furthermore, it is the derivative of several
psychometric scales, such as AttrakDiff, VisAWI, SUS, UEQ, meCUE, and
reviewed literature.
We kindly request that the network feel free and offer candid feedback by
completing the appraisal in the link shown below.

https://forms.gle/rzLcEwj3LpPkci3p7



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[Lazarus-general] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

_______________________________________________________________________

Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
_______________________________________________________________________

[Lazarus-general] Lazarus-ccr site search...

[Tom L. <ne...@ad...>]

Local search capability has been added to the Lazarus-CCR site. All of
the available Lazarus IDE and FPC documentation (that I know about) are
available for selective or sitewide search. Regular expressions can be
used for the query.

http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/index.php?wiki=FrontPage

-Tom

[Lazarus-general] Testing...

[Tom L. <ne...@ad...>]

This is a test of the Lazarus-general mail list.

Please ignore... and have a nice day! :o)

-Tom