Hi,
This is a request for your participation in a web-based online survey on women in open source software. This is survey is part of a research project being conducted by Vandana Singh, an Associate Professor at School of information Sciences, University of Tennessee. The objectives of this study are to explore the status of women involved in Open Source Software communities and to develop a better understanding of opportunities and challenges in this setting.
You have to be above 18 years of age and involved in Open Source Software communities to participate in this survey. It should take about 30 minutes to complete this survey. Please click on the link below to begin the survey.
https://utk.co1.qualtrics.com/
Your participation in this survey is voluntary. You may refuse to take part in the research or exit the survey at any time without penalty. You are free to decline to answer any particular question you do not wish to answer for any reason.
You will receive no direct benefits from participating in this research study. However, your responses may help us learn more about the status of women in open source software development.
At the end of the survey you will be asked if you are interested in participating in an additional interview [by phone, via video conferencing or email]. If you chose to volunteer for this interview, you will provide contact information to the researcher and therefore your survey responses will no longer be anonymous to the researcher. There is a possible risk of breach of confidentiality if you chose to interview via email. The researcher has signed a confidentiality pledge to maintain your confidentiality at all stages. No names or identifying information would be included in any publications or presentations based on these data, and your responses will remain confidential. The interview will be recorded and transcribed. The transcribed interviews will be stored on OneDrive with transmission and storage encryption to ensure confidentiality. After one year, the interview tapes will be destroyed. All the identifiers from the transcribed data will be removed and data with no identifiers will be stored and used for further analysis. The recordings from the interview will be destroyed within one year of the creation of the recording.
If you have questions at any time about the study or the procedures, you may contact Vandana Singh at 865-974-2785 or Vandana@xxxxxxx
If you feel you have not been treated according to the descriptions in this form, or that your rights as a participant in research have not been honored during the course of this project, or you have any questions, concerns, or complaints that you wish to address to someone other than the investigator, you may contact the University of Tennessee IRB Compliance Officer at utkirb@xxxxxxx or (865) 974-7697.
Best Regards,
Vandana Singh
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Vandana Singh, PhD
Associate Professor,
School of Information Sciences,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
453 Communications Building,
1345 Circle Park Drive,
Knoxville, TN 37996-0341,
Phone : (865) 974-2785.
Email: vandana@xxxxxxx
Website: http://scholar.cci.
ILS Portal from IMLS Project – http://opensource-ils.cci.
Women of Open Source Software: http://scholar.cci.
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