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Perl community motivation survey
If you ever published code, reported a bug or wrote a blog post on Perl, your opinion matters.
All questions are optional.
Please rate these reasons by how much they affect your open source activity:
Don't care
Weakly motivating
Motivating
Strongly motivating
It discourages me
Doesn't apply
Writing the code the way I want
1
2
3
4
5
6
Making the world a better place
1
2
3
4
5
6
Moral satisfaction
1
2
3
4
5
6
Improving the software I use
1
2
3
4
5
6
Learning
1
2
3
4
5
6
Creativity
1
2
3
4
5
6
Socializing
1
2
3
4
5
6
Collaborating with other people
1
2
3
4
5
6
Getting feedback
1
2
3
4
5
6
Getting praise
1
2
3
4
5
6
Building a career
1
2
3
4
5
6
Making money
1
2
3
4
5
6
Job requirement
1
2
3
4
5
6
List any other possible reasons for your participation:
How often do you contribute to the open source, on average? (Coding, reporting bugs, writing blog posts all counts.)
Almost daily
Several times per week
Several times per month
Several times per year
Even less often
Would you like to contribute more?
Yes
No
I'd like to contribute less
Given the amount of free time you have now, would you contribute more if the environment was perfectly friendly, perfectly rewarding, and you knew that your actions make a great impact?
No
Probably
Surely
How long have you been involved in the open source community?
Don't remember / Don't want to answer
less than 1 year
1-3 years
4-6 years
7-10 years
more than 10 years
CPAN ID, if you have one and you're ok with sharing it:
Anything else you'd like to share on the topic of this survey:
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