[TOS] POSSE alumni, you should have email...

[Mel Chua]

Am 10.09.2012 19:09, schrieb Stephen Jacobs:
> Great.  Mel and I should be distributing a survey to POSSE alums any day now

Where by "any day now," we mean "today." If you're a POSSE alum, you 
should have *just* gotten an email about participating in a survey on 
POSSE's impact; if you think we've missed you for any reason, let me 
know off-list and I'll work to fix it.

The survey hopes to answer questions like:
* what motivated people to attend POSSE?
* how many total student-hours have been spent working on FOSS for a 
POSSE alumni's classes?
* what sort of FOSS-related extracurricular (non-class) activities are 
POSSE alumni supporting?
* what are the most useful tools and techniques taught at POSSE, and 
what level of familiarity do most people enter with?

The big incentive (I hope): when 50% of POSSE alumni have completed the 
survey, the (anonymized, aggregated) responses will be made available as 
a public dataset. (This has been approved by RIT's IRB thanks to Steve.) 
We'll then all be able to use it for our research. I am hoping we'll be 
able to share the data before FIE at the start of October, since it 
sounds like a good number of TOS folks will be there -- but that depends 
entirely on how quickly people fill out the survey. ;)

--Mel