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[Oasserver-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.

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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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[Oasserver-general] Re: hi

[Shridhar D. <shr...@pe...>]

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 14:58, you wrote:
> sorry for the late reply. actually sudden developements in my family has
> kept me very very busy.
>
> > Yes. For the time being I am only committer. So you need to send patches
>
> to
>
> > me. It would be great if you discuss things before you start working.
>
> i can work with C++ to a decent level, buti have never been able to work on
> already written code. i dont know how i can make my patches. you will
> probably have to explain lots of things.

For me, if you are interested in using it, that is a good start. I suggest you 
use it first to get a feel of it. You can start asking like "How can I do foo 
in oasserver". I will answer the questions and probably start adding the 
features.

> > OAS Server in itself does not impose any tiers. So to speak, it is a
> > middleware. You can implement whatever you want with that.
>
> this is most confusing to me. how, can be get an n tier going..
> seems, i have lots of homework to do before, i can really contribute,
> neverthless, i am willing to do it, even if i am doing it at slower than a
> snail's pace.

Well. If you ask me developing using OAS Server no more difficult than 
developing in php. But it places lot of emphasis in good design because you 
can see your mistakes in stark contrast very upfront because it is a threaded 
C++ application.

You need any help in developing, please let me know.

> b.t.w. are you located in delhi ?

No. Pune.

 Shridhar

[Oasserver-general] Re: hi

[Shridhar D. <shr...@pe...>]

On Thursday 10 April 2003 09:08, you wrote:
> i saw your open application server.....
> well i guess, u also know me, as i feature in the linux-india mailing list.
>
>
> i am very keen on your project and god willingly would like to contribute.
> i also have friends who might be willing to join and contribute, of course,
> if you would be kind enough to allow that :-)

Yes. For the time being I am only committer. So you need to send patches to 
me. It would be great if you discuss things before you start working.

> but before all that, i would like to know one thing.
>
> with what scripting language i can use with your application server if not
> php, or asp or whatever.
> and how would the architechture be based?

No. There would be no other language but C++. I know that is unsettling but 
that is just a different approach to do the same things. And I think better 
one at that.

I suggest you come over oasserver-general list. The list page is 
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oasserver-general.

This will allow other people to benefit from such a discussion and this gets 
archived as wellm for future reference.

> 3 tier or 4 tier ? please help me understand this better.

OAS Server in itself does not impose any tiers. So to speak, it is a 
middleware. You can implement whatever you want with that.

Looking forward to your feedback.

 Shridhar

[Oasserver-general] test

[Hrishikesh M. <hri...@pe...>]

hrishi