[Hosting] 2024 Annual OSUOSL Survey

[richardlau]

From OSUOSL via a mailing post (note you need to be on the mailing list to view the archives):

We hope this message finds you all well. As part of our ongoing commitment to support and enhance the open-source community, we are excited to announce the launch of our first annual survey.

Your project is an integral part of the OSU Open Source Lab, and we value your feedback immensely. This survey aims to gather insights on our impact, identify areas for improvement, and understand the evolving needs of the community.

Why Participate?
Your Voice Matters: Your feedback will directly influence our future initiatives and services.
Community Growth: Help us identify what’s working well and what needs attention, ensuring we continue to foster a thriving open-source ecosystem.
Continuous Improvement: Your input will guide us in enhancing our support and resources for all hosted projects.
University Impact: Your responses will help the University recognize the importance and value of our lab to the broader community, reinforcing our role and contributions.
Survey Details:
Duration: The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.
Deadline: Please submit your responses by November 1, 2024.
Link: https://survey.osuosl.org/osuosl-annual-2024
We appreciate your time and effort in helping us better serve you and the broader open-source community. If you have any questions or need assistance, please do not hesitate to reach out to me at lance@osuosl.org.

If you filled out a survey for our OpenPOWER hosting, please fill this out as well. It covers a different set of questions. Feel free to have multiple people from your project fill out this survey if they want to provide feedback.

Thank you for your continued collaboration and support!

Thanks!

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As noted, this is separate from #3717. Crucially no implied loss of resources for failing to complete the survey 🙂.

[richardlau]

I've completed and submitted as much of the survey as I could on behalf of Node.js. At least I could answer the technical parts (e.g. around architectures, what we're using etc).

There are some "future" questions around the potential introduction of an annual EULA and also around funding for OSUOSL which I don't feel qualified to answer. Since the post mentions, "Feel free to have multiple people from your project fill out this survey if they want to provide feedback", perhaps either @bensternthal / @ryanaslett or someone else on the Foundation side would be interested in completing those parts of the survey?

[ryanaslett]

This is the EULA questions portion of the survey.

My initial reaction is that every service provider that we negotiate an agreement with has to go through a Legal process to ensure that we're not signing up for any egregious terms or conditions.

Since most other vendors have some form of EULA, It wouldn't be altogether prohibitive for OSUOSL to introduce one, but we'd have to go through our standard Legal process to validate and verify before signing something of that nature.

I'll raise this with our Cloudops team internally to see if we can get ahead of this so our Legal can clarify what terms would and wouldnt be acceptable (to avoid conflict down the road).