[Chixla] Fw: [Announce] Researcher interested in interviewing women in open source

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:18:47 -0700
From: Val Henson <val.henson at gmail.com>
To: announce at linuxchix.org
Subject: [Announce] Researcher interested in interviewing women in open
source
Hello, I am a professor of organizational behavior in a business school
in
France and currently researching issues related to women in the open
source
communities.  My approach to understanding this issue is ethnographic,
which
means I want to understand how women themselves see their role in these
communities.  I would like to know what motivates women to participate
in
these communities, the satisfactions they draw from their participation,
the
challenges they encounter and their ways of coping with these
challenges.
I'm also curious to know how women interpret the scarcity of their
numbers
in these communities.
To accomplish the study I will need to interview the women who have
participated in some capacity (writing code, or documentation, etc.) in
free/open source communities.  Please contact me via email so that I can
schedule an interview with you over the phone; the interview will last
between 30 minutes and 1 hour.
Most importantly, I will protect the anonymity of the results and will
not
make public any name without the person's explicit permission.  If
enough
interest is raised, I would be happy to post the aggregate results on
your
site.
Looking forward to learning from you,
Anca
Anca Metiu
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
INSEAD
Boulevard de Constance
Fontainebleau Cedex 77305
France
Tel. 011.33.(0) 1.60.72.41.77
anca.metiu at insead.edu
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