Hi Vanessa,

Thank you so much for your feedback. Let me start by clarifying the goal of the survey. The goal is to assess the stressors faced in open source communities and to understand the communities' perception and knowledge regarding mental health. The information from the survey will be used to create a *well-being guideline* tailored for open source communities taking into consideration diversity, equity and inclusion. In short, the survey will help us with what issues related to well-being, mental health and DEI we should address in the guideline.

In regards to the survey questions, yes unfortunately the survey does not address different projects, only focuses on one. However, anyone can fill the form per open-source community if they choose to or choose one that would provide more insight about well-being and mental health and how to address those issues in open-source and if there is any information to comment on we have added optional question where anyone can write any unmentioned experiences on any open-source community (This is added to address issues we have not addressed in the questionnaire or for information that could not be mentioned in the questionnaire). Although it does not address many projects, having the questions formulated in the current format will help us analyze the data better.

In regards to the questions, "Do you take more responsibility in the project than you ought to?" & "Would you like to take on more responsibility in the project?" The latter asks if you want to do more work overall in the project regardless of the answer to the previous question. If you would like to add more responsibility than you're taking on now.

I hope this has clarified the points you have addressed. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

Best, Melke

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 11:03 PM v vsochat@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Galaxy List!

I was directed to post here about starting discussion / giving feedback for the aforementioned survey! I gave some feedback in the UKRSE slack and will share here, and anyone interested to chat more can follow up.

So I started but didn't finish because I found the survey couldn't capture the nuance of my experience. As a first observation, it asks / implies for me to comment on a current open source project, which assumes that 1. I have only one, and 2. my most recent experience can capture all my experiences. I think what I would want to be able to say is that I'm working on N projects currently, and then in those projects, there are some number of positive and some number of negative experiences. And then maybe I'd want to be able to answer a question about a range of OSS projects I've worked on in the past (e.g., 1-5, 5-10, etc.). That can somewhat capture a person's experience level with different communities, because (albeit problematically) the experience varies hugely! Also, the roles on the projects vary. I've definitely been on the gamut of maintainer to contributor, and I think there are different kinds of interactions you get from both of those (e.g., as a maintainer even when you are in a position of power the negative experiences tend to be people being displeased, disagreeing, or even threatening, and as a contributor it's more likely to be treated differently based on a demographic. So - I think it would be good if the survey could capture these experiences. I felt like I was leaving out most of my life experience to just be commenting on one recent project.

I continued on with this project, but then next, I found I didn't know how to answer because there were questions of the format "Do you do X more than you'd like to" with "yes" and "no" - and I wanted to answer "I think I do just the right amount of this." So I answered "no." But then the followup was assuming that "no" meant I wanted to do more - I didn't know how to answer.

I don't know the underlying goals of the data collection so I can't comment beyond that, but if someone wants to chat about that (and discuss more ideas for how to ask the questions etc). I just wanted to start the discussion and offer feedback. I'm so glad you are working on this because it's such an important topic for our community! I've had projects that have given me immense joy and others the complete opposite - and it would be interesting to unwrap that.

Best,

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