Hello all,
In the Guardian Project <
https://guardianproject.info/>'s current work with
the FDroid <
https://f-droid.org/> community to make it a secure,
streamlined, and verifiable app distribution channel for high-risk
environments we have started to become more aware of the challenges and
risks facing software developers who build software in around the world.
There are a wealth of resources available on how to support and collaborate
with high-risk users. Unsurprisingly, we could not find any guidance on how
to support and collaborate with developers where the internet is heavily
monitored and/or filtered, let alone developers who might be at risk
because of the software they develop.
We have started conducting research on developers from a range of closed
and closing spaces. We hope that the results of this research will help
international software projects and organizations better understand and
respond to the unique needs of different international developer
communities.
Part of this user research was the development of the challenges.tech survey
<
https://challenges.tech/> which will be used to help us form a better
understanding of the challenges international developers face, their
motivations, and their priorities. With the help of the Localization Lab
<
https://www.localizationlab.org/> we have translated this survey into
Chinese, Spanish, Farsi, French, and Russian.
We have two requests:
1. If you are a developer take this survey <
https://www.challenges.tech/>
(It takes about 10 minutes.)
2. Share the survey with your networks and encourage them to pass it
along. We would like to get a diverse range of developers to take the
survey.
*
https://challenges.tech* <
https://challenges.tech>
We will close down the survey in a month (End of April). We will then replace the
challenges.tech website with the aggregated survey results. We will also
publicly share the overall results our research on the Guardian Project
<
https://guardianproject.info/> website in a research report. We hope that
this report will help international organizations and software development
projects understand and respond to the unique needs of different
international developer communities.
Best,
s2e
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seamus tuohy
Principal Consultant | Prudent Innovation
s2e@prudentinnovation.orgPGP: 36AC 272E B7CF EDD5 F907 E488 B619 3EC7 3CF0 7AA7
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