[steering-discuss] Invitiation to participate in our study regarding community governance

Dear Sir or Madam

I kindly want to invite you to our project's upcoming study on community 
governance and its impact on the collaboration with other organizations. 
Given the recent developments between the OpenOffice.org (respectively 
LibreOffice) community on the one hand and Oracle/Sun on the other hand, 
it seems that your insight will be most important to our research project.

Please let me briefly introduce you to our project and myself. My 
dissertation is concerned with the opportunities and challenges, which 
arise from open source development. Based on this, my team and I have 
launched a project at the Berlin Institute of Technology, which also 
involves other researchers and students. Just recently we have also 
launched our website: www.oss-research.info.

In this next study of ours we want to explore what are the basic 
elements of community governance, how a community can be managed and 
what rules and norms are vital for the collaboration with other 
organizations. This is a topic, which is pretty much understudied right 
now and as you will be aware yourself, managers have to learn how to 
acknowledge community culture. For this reason I ask for your support. 
We would be glad if you consider to participate in our study by agreeing 
to an interview (via skype). Of course, all answers will be anonymized 
from individual attribution, unless you don't want that. And likewise, 
we offer to give you a full account of our research findings.

If you are interested, please contact me at heitmann@strategie.tu-berlin.de

Thanks in advance for your support.

Best regards

Martin Heitmann

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Dipl.-Kfm. Martin Heitmann
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Technische Universität Berlin
Fakultät VII - Wirtschaft und Management
Fachgebiet für Strategische Führung und Globales Management
Sekretariat H92
Straße des 17. Juni 135
D - 10623 Berlin
Tel. +49 - 30 -314 28746
Fax. +49 - 30 -314 26048
Raum: H 9168
Internet: www.strategie.tu-berlin.de


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