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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. Great acronymn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    now you can see why nobody takes open source seriously

  2. For some odd reason.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For some odd reason I read "for some odd reason" as "for the same reason". Statement about women perhaps?

  3. the boys who cried wolf(owitz) by already_gone · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    all is not lost.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), since/until forever. see you there?

    "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."