I am a 25 year old student from Sweden working on my bachelor thesis at the moment and it aims to study how FLOSS projects perceive and solve UX- and usability related issues. I would greatly appreaciate if you could take 3-10 minutes to answer this questionnaire. The answers given are completely anonymous and cannot be linked back to you.
Anyone who is either using Lutris software, are related to/working on the software or project itself or are generally interested in Free/Libre Open Source Software can answer this survey. Feel free to share about this survey so I can get as good as outreach as possible within the Lutris community (I have already sent a message on Discord). If you have any questions; don’t hesitate to DM me or comment this post!
Hi Patpat,
I think it’s great you are doing such a study. But, think about it: you want FLOSS projects to answer your questionnaire and you host the survey on Microsoft Forms?
I’m not inclined to send any data to Microsoft. Actually, a Google or Apple or Meta survey form wouldn’t be much better. All of them are able to de-anonymize every partitipant if they feel like it. Doesn’t your University provide such a service? They really should. I know mine does (limesurvey which is FOSS so no costs involved for Universities).
I’m sorry if you feel like this is nitpicking. We FOSS activists live in another eco system.
Hi kaimon,
I have pretty much already understood that many activists live by this opinion and rightfully so, Microsoft Forms were what I quickly had at hand and it is what my uni already provides (it have a contract with e.g., Microsoft products). If I had more time I would’ve setup a more rigerous- and privacy respecting solution but this was not the case this time sadly.
If you feel this is a hindrance to participation; you are not forced to answer . But thank you for your input anyways! I will take this as a point of learning for possible future studies!
UPDATE:
I have constructed the questionnaire in a text format as well, if someone is effy about MS Office Forms, message me and I’ll provide you with the questionnaire in text format.
. But thank you for your input anyways! I will take this as a point of learning for possible future studies!