You can see here where it has been announced. This are the weblogs and mailing lists I know of, there are sure multiple other sites and lists where this survey was announced.
OTOH, if you have a look at other surveys (WIDI - final report), you'll see that Debian is among developers the preferred distribution. WIDI was announced in Slashdot (main page), Heise.de and several other news sites that aren't related to the Debian project.
We have posted press releases in European non-English speaking weblogs. That's why the research was biased especially to German developers before it was posted in Slashdot... but as you'll see it is already changing:-)
I hope we will get at the end a realistic picture of where the developers come;-)...
In our final work we will also give a list of news sites where we have posted our press releases to show we have posted it in the world wide most important news sites.
The continent statistics is not from "living in", it comes from "Nationality"... and you're right: "North America" should be USA + Canada + Mexico...
The point is I got Mexico as "Latin America" and therefore I did not include it in "North America"... that's why you can see as subject of the box "Continents".
I'll fix the problem when the Slashdot effect is over:-)...
There are per-contry stats for every country with more then 15 developers. We thought this could give a nice perspective of what is different in each country.
While the survey is becoming more and more entries, the number of countries with more than 15 Open Source developers is increasing rapidly:-). Just enjoy the results.
You're right... but first we have to solve the "who" question and then we can start to think about the "why" question.
I hope our research (in which Widi is only one part of it) will give good results on the "who" question, so the question "why" can be resolved in near future.
The problem was just a bad configuration of MySQL as I've already told in a comment. We apologizes for it... it has been our first Slashdot efect and you know you can't ensure your software runs well untill you test it:-). Thanx for your comprehension.
No, I think it's quite the other way round! You can see from the statistics that Open Source/Free Software developers are high qualified young people (and not so youg) with high cultural level.
Tell people in the street about Open Source and what will they tell you... they'll tell you free software developers are anarchists, communists, teenies and so on... is that what we can see in the results?
Don't mix the partial results (now) with the end results. The partial results are as they are becouse of some reasons.
We did the beta-testing with www.barrapunto.com (the Spanish Slasdot) two weeks ago and then started to post on non-English weblogs all around Europe last week. We wanted to make sure that everything works ok.
Last Thursday it was posted on Heise.de and over 700 entries came (mostly Germans, Austrians and Swiss)... and today on Slashdot.
I hope at the end we will have a realistic approach of the nationality distribution...
It doesn't bother me much who's first as I'm part of the research group at the TU Berlin and I'm Spanish... and sorrily we are not top!! (but who knows in future;-)...)
Slashdot Mirror
Really, this comment hits the target!
:-)
(it seems that you've really read the documents)
You can see here where it was announced (there are more, but that's where I know of).
OTOH, if you have a look at other surveys (WIDI -
final report), you'll see that Debian is among developers the preferred distribution. WIDI was announced in Slashdot (main page), Heise.de and several other news sites that aren't related to the Debian project.
http://widi.berlios.de/links.php3.
There you will find other tools and surveys we have found.
I want you also to notice, that Widi (the survey) is only part of our research. We have several other sources that will converge in our final results.
I hope we will get at the end a realistic picture of where the developers come ;-)...
In our final work we will also give a list of news sites where we have posted our press releases to show we have posted it in the world wide most important news sites.
Thanx for your comments.
The point is I got Mexico as "Latin America" and therefore I did not include it in "North America"... that's why you can see as subject of the box "Continents".
I'll fix the problem when the Slashdot effect is over :-)...
Thanx for your comprehension.
There are per-contry stats for every country with more then 15 developers. We thought this could give a nice perspective of what is different in each country.
While the survey is becoming more and more entries, the number of countries with more than 15 Open Source developers is increasing rapidly :-). Just enjoy the results.
I hope our research (in which Widi is only one part of it) will give good results on the "who" question, so the question "why" can be resolved in near future.
Thanx for your comment.
I've to answer you, that Widi (the software under which this survey runs) itself is released under the GPL... so we're also Open Source developers.
You can download it from http://developer.berlios.de/projects/widi/
The problem was just a bad configuration of MySQL as I've already told in a comment. We apologizes for it... it has been our first Slashdot efect and you know you can't ensure your software runs well untill you test it :-). Thanx for your comprehension.
Tell people in the street about Open Source and what will they tell you... they'll tell you free software developers are anarchists, communists, teenies and so on... is that what we can see in the results?
Maybe as times goes on and the number of survey entries goes up, the numbers will change to reflect this.
Yes. You can now see you were right. And I think the stats will get better in the next few days ;-).
Thanx for your comment.
Apache allowed 150 connections
MySQL only 100 connections
at the same time
This has been fastly reconfigured.
Another time sorry for the inconvenience. It was my first Slashdot efect :-)
Grex
Don't mix the partial results (now) with the end results. The partial results are as they are becouse of some reasons.
We did the beta-testing with www.barrapunto.com (the Spanish Slasdot) two weeks ago and then started to post on non-English weblogs all around Europe last week. We wanted to make sure that everything works ok.
Last Thursday it was posted on Heise.de and over 700 entries came (mostly Germans, Austrians and Swiss)... and today on Slashdot.
I hope at the end we will have a realistic approach of the nationality distribution...
It doesn't bother me much who's first as I'm part of the research group at the TU Berlin and I'm Spanish... and sorrily we are not top!! (but who knows in future ;-)...)
I can only sadly say it is too late for it! Next time ;-)