Open JJ opened 9 years ago
iblancasa
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9 years ago Could be interesting for know the programming languages more interesting for the developers. Too, if in one city there are a lot of developers, we could think that it's more probably that there are more software companies than other city with less developers (in the future, I want to work :yum:)...
Finally... I think this rankings has increased competitiveness between the developers... "gamification"
fergunet
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9 years ago Maybe to find a correlation between cities with open source associations or university FLOSS offices? (such as the OSL?)
El jueves, 12 de febrero de 2015, Israel Blancas notifications@github.com escribió:
Could be interesting for know the programming languages more interesting for the developers. Too, if in one city there are a lot of developers, we could think that it's more probably that there are more software companies than other city with less developers (in the future, I want to work [image: :yum:])...
Finally... I think this rankings has increased competitiveness between the developers... "gamification"
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stringparser
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9 years ago For me only motivation is to share and do stuff. No reason whatsoever but the act of doing. No schemes, no plans whatsoever (is it so difficult to let things be?) I dislike the crude idea of tops, lists, rankings and so on. Its like intelligence test, it will not be ever be representative to measure one or many points of human brains. Things change and evolve, so it will only misguide from my point of view. One can measure created code, but then it might fall into "amounts" of it and with amounts, labels come and with labels economy as well. On the other hand, if the idea of it is to gather people around their interests and nothing else, thats more interesting.
So what I would measure is the interactions between groups.
Companies... you will work @iblancasa, but you don't have to think about work to do it, right? Do stuff, work in stuff, contribute in stuff and that will lead, by nature, to work. And the work you like. But you have to do what you like first :)
pacastillo
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9 years ago Just as brainstorming...
Is there data on participation in recent years? Could that data be obtained? Maybe... could it be initiated a mid-long term participation study about input and output users from the list? With historical data we could make some sort of prediction of the evolution of activity in free software projects...
What if the professional activity of the first N persons in that list is studied? Are they freelance developers? Are they teachers? Maybe students?
If they are freelance, do they develop and free software to obtain some kind of fame? If they are students, are they told to publish and free software as part of courses? (as part of the course evaluation). And, once they pass the course and even they get a job, do they continue participating in open source projects?
And finally, if they are teachers, does an OSL exist at their college or school?
The fact that the github says that someone lives in certain city, it does not mean that his collaborations are on projects with people from the same city. Can we draw relationships with other users on the list?
Motivation should never be "I did this and lookie here nice graphs", but why should we engage in the study of geographically-based communities such as this one. For me, it is interesting to see if there is a noticeable impact of the policies of the free software office in the quantity and quality of development in a city (but then, I don't have data before the existence of the OSL). What other motivations could there be? And what motivation to, once you have the data, study inequalities in distribution and so on? @pacastillo @fergunet @fernand0 @deantares can you lend a hand? @nuriastatgirl? @javacasm @iblancasa @stringparser?