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EU Funds New FLOSS Survey on Skills, Employment

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the high-tech-census dept.

rishab writes "The EU-funded FLOSSPOLS project is carrying out a survey of developers worldwide. This is a follow-up to the original FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) survey in 2002, which was one of the first and most comprehensive surveys of developers - who they are, how they work and why they do it. The new survey aims to provide an update, include new developers, and answer some of the questions that were raised by the first one. In particular, how do developer communities help in learning skills and generating employment, and why is the level of participation by women so low?"

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  1. For some odd reason.. by SocialEngineer · · Score: 4, Funny

    For some odd reason I read "FLOSSPOLS" as "FLOSS PLS". Subliminal messages perhaps?

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    1. Re:For some odd reason.. by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wonder how they will pick the five dentists that will participate in the survey. Are they going to get the same guys from the trident survey?

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  2. FLOSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    For the Love O god Someone Shower! Then you'll get the women.

  3. Re:Women by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean the aptitude to work long hours for nothing so that corporations can get their software for free? Probably not, women aren't that stupid.

  4. Hmmm by Neil+Blender · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do other countries think it's funny to put [United States] in alphabetical order in a country drop down list instead of index 1 where it belongs no matter what?

    1. Re:Hmmm by bryan986 · · Score: 0, Funny

      It annoys the hell out of me when I see Afghanistan at #1 in the list, when we all know the United States is #1

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    2. Re:Hmmm by rokzy · · Score: 4, Funny

      yes we think it's hilarious. we often screen videos of dumb Americans bouncing on the down arrow key at the weekly meetings of the "No USAians" club.

      so far none of them have realised you can press the 'U' key.

      the funniest ones are where they get all the way to countries beginning with the letter 'H', stopping to read and think about each one, before finally realising it's alphabetical and they can just scroll until countries beginning with 'U' appear.

      when you guys finally figure out our plot, we'll start putting the USA in random places.

    3. Re:Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can only assume it's done because.

      1: Americans don't know that other countries exist.
      2: The Ameican government doesn't want Americans to know that other countries exist.
      3: Americans don't know the alphabet.
      4: Americans can't spell.
      5: Americans can't read.
      6: Anyone that can't read, spell, doesn't know the alphabet or any geography might as well be an American.

    4. Re:Hmmm by tlhIngan · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, why can't they list them by numeric country code as used for telephone calls, where the USA is 1? In fact we should just rename all countries to numbers instead, for example Nigeria would be 234 (not 419, sadly).

      Ah, but then Canada would come first (yay!), since its country code *also* happens to be 1 (the only differentiator is area code...). And since logically most lists which have the same value in a list get sub-sorted alphabetically.

  5. Seven Years by bstadil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's see if the EU can beat the Americans and report back before 2012.

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  6. Re:women are sick... by Gzip+Christ · · Score: 4, Funny
    There are only so many times you can hear a guy ask, "Is your body released under GNU/GPL?"
    Hey, we just want to know which girls are easy to fork.