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[libimdb-devel] 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.

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Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
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[libimdb-devel] project status - mid June 2003

[Jerry V. <je...@ma...>]

Just in case someone actually finds this project, I thought I
better post something to the devel list so it wasn't empty.

I've put my prototype code into cvs, its the startings of a
simple c interface to parsing the list files. I've decided to use
swig to interface to java and perl... so far I have a working java
interface, but the packaging on the java end needs some work.

The c interface only supports parsing a couple of the list files
to date. I want the interface to stabilize before I move too far,
and make work for myself.

The java interface supports the jlog c library for error callbacks
and converts these into java callbacks (via method invocations)
in java, but what I really want it both this and java exceptions
to be thrown. To do this, I'll need to get swig to do some of the
work... I know it can, I just have to spend the time..

Down the road I want to try out writing a perl interface, but it
looks like it may be more work than I'm interested in. Maybe I'll
hold off and see if someone with more interest comes along.

First on the tool list is a utility to build a Berkley db of some
of the list file contents and update tv_imdb (from the xmltv
project) to use libimdb. The current implementation is really
heavy on memory and I suspect I can do a better job with
performance etc using libimdb as the base instead of try to
manage everything in perl.

Anyway... that's what things look like today.
jerry