Feedback on topic: Consumption

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As described in the README, we'd love to hear from you about any existing survey instruments you know of that that explore the survey topic areas we're interested in.

Please use this issue to let us know about existing survey instruments and research on Consumption:

Previous studies of open source communities have focused on maintainers and contributors, to the near exclusion of those who are solely consumers of open source projects. We know from analyses of traffic on ours site that the passive consumers of content on any public repository vastly outnumber the active contributors. Who are the consumers? What do they use these projects for? Why do they select open source projects instead of commercial products? To what extent are they engaged with, or even aware of, the philosophy and values of free and open source software?