I published the draft results from the Network Operators Open Source Software survey in individual pieces some months back. Now, the final polished pieces are… Read More »All the details: Network Operators OSS Study
Over the past couple of months, we’ve published the data charts from the results of the questionnaire we ran last October and November. Before we… Read More »Summing up: the draft report
Both Individual Contributors and Decision Makers were asked to identify where they saw gaps in the landscape of available OSS tools. They were asked about… Read More »OSS Gaps
Licensing The same questions were asked of Independent Contributors and Decision Makers for both their organizations’ licensing requirements for using OSS, or contributing to OSS… Read More »Organizational Requirements for Use and Contribution to OSS
Other blog posts outline the attractors and impediments to contributing to OSS projects, but it’s also important to understand the broader purposes for contributing, and… Read More »OSS motivators
Why don’t operators engage in OSS development? Clearly, some do engage! Of the Individual Contributor respondents, 20 (of 34) said they contributed to OSS projects,… Read More »Contributing to OSS
One of the main questions about OSS for operators was: do network operators actually use OSS? What the survey responses suggest is that network operators… Read More »Using OSS
Survey Mechanics This project was framed with the full knowledge that it was an information-gathering exercise, as opposed to a rigorous information science study. Respondents… Read More »Who were they?
Go to any network operator group meeting, and you’ll be met by a pre-meeting hackathon, encouraging participants to engage in open source software development of some description. The sense is that OSS is important to network operators. There’s also a quiet suspicion that network operators are not as engaged with OSS as they might, or ought to, be.
So, in October and November 2019, we canvassed people to provide responses to a set of questions about their experiences. We targeted “network operator communities”, and did cast the net broadly to collect data from anyone willing to share information about their use, contributions to, and supporting of OSS. In seeking better understanding of what were attractions, another aim was to better understand who is not doing some or all of the above. What are the sources of friction that can be addressed to improve engagement with OSS? What are the things that are immediate attractors, or outright buzzkills?
As we’re looking to wind up the Open Source Software survey questionnaire later this week, I thought it might be helpful to give a sense… Read More »What’s in an OSS Study?