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The Open Source Survey
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Add design principles doc #20

Closed franniez closed 8 years ago

franniez commented 8 years ago

As suggested in https://github.com/github/the-open-source-survey/issues/6, this doc outlines some basic principles about how we plan to field this survey, including (so far)

@arfon @bkeepers @mlinksva anything else we should add here?

bkeepers commented 8 years ago

This is so great!

Only thing I might add is our (GitHub's) desire to be in a position of least privilege. We want to avoid questions and methods that put us in a privileged position with the data, so long as it doesn't conflict with privacy.

arfon commented 8 years ago

❤️ this. After "and we welcome pointers towards prior work that can inform our design." shall we put a link to the contributing guidelines?

arfon commented 8 years ago

Only thing I might add is our (GitHub's) desire to be in a position of least privilege. We want to avoid questions and methods that put us in a privileged position with the data, so long as it doesn't conflict with privacy.

@bkeepers - yeah, I think that's an important thing to call out.