[Open Design] [Surveys] Last corner of P2P Trilogy: Annual Open Design survey starts

Tue Apr 2 06:02:15 UTC 2013

Statistical Studies of Peer Production is starting another annual
survey. This time focus will be on Open Design community. 
You can find the survey with 22 questions from SSoPP Active Surveys list
and from link below. It will be open until the end of this month (April
30th 2013). It includes questions which aim to provide information about
the motivation, tools used and design practices of Open Design community
members. 

http://surveys.peerproduction.net/ls/index.php?sid=64114&lang=en

If you know other lists that could contain open design practitioners,
feel free to spread this invitation.  

The survey will be part of longer and larger research focus, which
contains:

1) Peer Production generation surveys (conducted annually since 2010) ,
http://surveys.peerproduction.net/2012/07/mapping-hackers-diy-community-survey-2012-results/

2) 3D Printing community surveys  (conducted annually since 2012) and
now also
http://surveys.peerproduction.net/2012/05/manufacturing-in-motion/

3) Open Design community survey (starting 2013).

The above listed parts constitute a  trilogy, which is natural
combination of areas which will play crucial role in future
manufacturing and design practices. Discussion around ‘peer production’
has been active during the last years. Still, empirical information
about ‘peer production’ communities has been minimal. Some scholars have
done in-depth hacker interviews, but statistical data is missing. Annual
Peer Production generation survey aims at filling the gap and provide us
more accurate longitudinal research results about the values, structure
and relations of different DIY communities. It will provide us general
overview to P2P communities. 

3D Printing Community survey will be conducted annually, forming a
longitudinal data base about 3D printing community, members of it, and
features of the community. We have included both 1) people using 3D
printers, people who 2) develop 3D printers and related software and 3)
early adopters. 

The last part of this research trilogy is now starting: annual Open
Design surveys. It will provide us longitudinal information about the
Open Design community: what are the values, what kind of ecosystem it
will construct and what becomes out of the movement that has started to
blossom.

Take the survey and help us to make Open Design a little better known;
as well as among open design practitioners as the unknown public.

Survey: http://surveys.peerproduction.net/ls/index.php?sid=64114&lang=en

Results will be used in academic research and survey data will be
published at Statistical Studies of Peer Production site. 

/Jarkko Moilanen

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Jarkko Moilanen, M.Soc.Sc
PhD Candidate
School of Information Sciences
http://www.uta.fi/sis/en/index.html
Blog: http://blog.ossoil.com