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Discussion on: The State of Open Source: Currents 2020 Survey

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Derk-Jan Karrenbeld

Unfortunately there was no feedback question in the survey, or contact address for that specific survey. If you're not looking for feedback at all, you may ignore this comment, or let me know if I should delete it.

I took the time filling this in, as an open source enthusiast, maintainer and contributor. As a data scientist I have a lot of questions about... a lot of questions. I don't know what the reporting will be on this, but grouping "all of open source" together is probably a mistake. There are also various questions that don't make sense under various circumstances -- I don't know how to answer these.

I'm actively wondering if the people who came up with the questions are involved in open source themselves, or have asked open source maintainers and contributors what the questions could be/should be. Asking a or b questions where a large number of people will identify with both answers is an indicator of this.

I'm interested in the outcome, but have a lot of reservations about both the validity and the worth of any "conclusions". If you or someone is looking for concrete examples, I can point them out.