# Knowledge management in OSS communities **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 31, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/knowledge-management-in-oss-communities/110854 "2007-07-31T15:48:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zilia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zilia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zilia)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/knowledge-management-in-oss-communities/110854/1 "2007-07-31T15:48:42Z")
Dear Members of Ruby T. Group, I am a PhD student in e-Business in Durham University, Durham Business School (UK). My research topic is “Knowledge management and innovation in virtual organisations”. The aim of my thesis is to assess how and to what extent knowledge is created, shared, and circulated in open source software (OSS) communities. In my empirical studies I am collecting primary data from members/ developers of OSS communities. Because you are the one who can give me a correct picture of how you experience your contribution to OSS activities, I would be very grateful if you could spend no more than 15 minutes to answer my questionnaire (URL: [http://www.dur.ac.uk/zilia.iskoujina/qq.htm](http://www.dur.ac.uk/zilia.iskoujina/qq.htm)). There will be some prizes - after finishing the data collection, I will randomly select some respondents and send them gift vouchers for GBP 20 from Amazon. Thank you very much for your time and cooperation. I greatly appreciate your help in contributing to this research endeavour. Zilia Iskoujina PhD Student in e-Business Durham University Durham Business School WWW: [http://www.durham.ac.uk/zilia.iskoujina](http://www.durham.ac.uk/zilia.iskoujina)