Collection of references to existing developer & open source community surveys
ncoghlan opened this issue · 6 comments
The design guidelines make reference to considering (and potentially aligning with) other surveys of developer communities and open source communities, so I figure it makes sense to start an issue to let folks submit information on such surveys that they're aware of. With this survey planned to be delivered in multiple languages, hopefully folks may be able to highlight non-English language surveys as well (my own are all in English).
To start the list, some general surveys:
- North Bridge/Black Duck Future of Open Source Survey (emphasis on institutional use): http://www.northbridge.com/2016-future-open-source-survey-results
- Stack Overflow developer survey: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016
And some project & technology specific surveys:
- Linux Foundation Kernel Report (mainly based on contributor analytics): https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/linux-foundation-releases-development-report-highlighting-contributions-to-linux
- OpenStack User Survey (emphasis on institutional use): https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/survey-2016
- Cloud Foundry Container Survey (emphasis on institutional use): https://www.cloudfoundry.org/learn/2016-container-report/
These are some older UK focused surveys I hadn't seen before, but came across just now:
- OSS Watch (University of Oxford): http://oss-watch.ac.uk/studies/
(I just noticed the project has the Wiki feature enabled, so let me know if you'd prefer to see this list moved over there)
Thanks. I don't think we plan to use the wiki, but @arfon can say for sure.
For now this issue will suffice. It'd probably be good to collect some annotations on previous surveys, at least on methodology.
In addition to the Black Duck and Stack Overflow ones, we've been looking closely at http://floss2013.libresoft.es/ (and its 2002 predecessor).
A few others:
It's not specifically open source related, but one I reference fairly often is https://www.infoq.com/news/2014/01/IDC-software-developers since it's the only even vaguely reliable answer I know to the question of "Just how many software developers are there?"
The design guidelines make reference to considering (and potentially aligning with) other surveys of developer communities and open source communities, so I figure it makes sense to start an issue to let folks submit information on such surveys that they're aware of.
Many thanks @ncoghlan.
(I just noticed the project has the Wiki feature enabled, so let me know if you'd prefer to see this list moved over there)
I'd rather not use the wikis. As this list develops perhaps we could add these to a markdown file in this repository (e.g. past-work.md).
Both the Go and Rust teams have run surveys for their communities in 2016:
- Go developer survey: https://blog.golang.org/survey2016-results
- Rust developer survey: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/06/30/State-of-Rust-Survey-2016.html
The survey has 🚢d! Thanks all! There are some acknowledgements in http://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/#about.