Mentopolis RSD Survey: Motivations and Incentives in Research Software Development

The purpose of this questionnaire is to find out contexts and context conditions of especially open-source research software. This type of software becomes more important in modern scientific processes. Thus, finding out how to support good quality software and its development is and will be essential for credible science.

We address the group of people who are involved in creating, using / reusing research software and would like to find out the current state of affairs.

This survey relates to a specific project. If you are actively involved in several projects, please feel free to complete the survey more than once.

We ask questions where you can add in many cases additional comments and remarks to the chosen answer options. We expect that it takes no longer than 20 to 30 minutes.

We are very grateful for your time and effort and will publish the aggregated results and findings as part of the RDS Mentopolis project funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.