Add level of engagement question

[sstruble]

Part 1, after Q4 suggest adding the following question. The categorization here follows a framework from Ciesielska and Westenholz’s “Dilemmas within commercial involvement in open source software”:

For your company’s core open source investment, would you describe your level of engagement as:

• Imitating: Imitating and translating ideas from open source communities (duplicating incentives, knowledge-sharing within the firm, user-involvement)
• Using: Acting as a "community customer" using the open source software and sometimes also supporting the community with money
• Combining: Combining proprietary software with open source software
• Creating: Leading open source projects (managing, creating code, supporting)
• Contributing:Participating in open source projects led by a community (creating code, supporting the project)
• Co-Leading:Members of of open source communities (co-managing the community, creating code, supporting the community)

[LawrenceHecht]

Not adding this question. Keeping this issue open. Perhaps it can be addressed next year.

[DuaneOBrien]

The levels are awfully close to the items in Question 1. For our purposes we can probably do a somewhat clumsy mapping between the two for the near term, but it would be great to see this captured in future surveys, either by converging question 1 to the C&W categories or finding another way to include them.