To Toot or not to Toot: That is the question
summary
Survey of 268 ASF participants uses questionnaires and OLS regression to test whether industry experience changes the payoff to online self-promotion. Finding: more industry experience correlates with more self-promotion, and self-promotion slightly increases Authority for experienced contributors but self-promotion hurts inexperienced contributors’ chance of gaining Authority. Data come only from Apache after Eclipse and Linux pushes failed (bots, offended gatekeepers, low usable responses); sample-size and survey-bias limitations remain.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:02Research motivation and meritocracy
- 7:20Hypotheses on self-promotion
- 10:12Survey methodology and data
- 13:48Key findings from regression
- 16:18Study limitations and challenges
- 18:51Future research directions
- 20:15Q&A and feedback
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