An invitation for SDL from UMBC

Hello SDL team!

The Empirical and Applied Software Engineering Lab (EASEL) at the University
of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) would like to extend an invitation to
you to participate in an online focus group call, and to accept a $150
contribution (see below for details) from us as an incentive. We believe
that your participation would be a good opportunity for you to share ideas
among yourselves about SDL, and would be a valuable contribution to our
research in software quality and development productivity.

We are studying the changes that Open Source Software goes through when
releasing a new version or making other modifications to the code, to find a
way to predict when these changes will become problematic, and develop
solutions to make them cost-effective and time-efficient. Hence, we would
like for you to share information with us during a focus group about the
changes your code has gone through, the causes for these changes, what kinds
of changes are problematic, and how you have handled these.
We would contribute $150 to your project should we get 5-7 team members to
participate in our focus group. These members should:

  • Have been part of the team for about 2 years or long enough to have
    seen a few significant changes on existing code base, and
  • Contributed to the code or significantly to the project in the past six
    months, and
  • Be at least 18 years old

Please let us know should you have any additional questions, and if you
would be interested in participating.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Maria Viera
EASEL TEAM
University of Maryland Baltimore County

IRB Protocol Y11CS12150 approved
04/18/2011 thru 04/17/2012

Interesting.? Does SDL have 5-7 team members who meet this criteria?? (Does it have 5-7 team members at all?)
Also, $150 doesn’t go very far, split 5-7 ways…________________________________
From: mviera1@umbc.edu (Maria Jose Viera)
Subject: [SDL] An invitation for SDL from UMBC

We would contribute $150 to your project should we get 5-7 team members to participate in our focus group. These members should:
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* Have been part of the team for about 2 years or long enough to have seen a few significant changes on existing code base, and
* Contributed to the code or significantly to the project in the past six months, and
* Be at least 18 years old

The Empirical and Applied Software Engineering Lab (EASEL) at the
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) would like to extend an
invitation to you to participate in an online focus group call, and to
accept a $150 contribution (see below for details) from us as an
incentive. We believe that your participation would be a good
opportunity for you to share ideas among yourselves about SDL, and would
be a valuable contribution to our research in software quality and
development productivity.

Thanks, but I think we’re not interested.

–ryan.