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On 08/28/2014 07:28 PM, Lauren Sell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> In previous cycles of the user survey [http://www.openstack.org/user-survey], it’s taken quite a few hours to analyze the data and qualitative responses. It’s been understandably difficult for user committee volunteers to pull away from their day jobs to do it. To combat this problem, we would like to hire an independent researcher or boutique firm that can provide some extra manpower working with the user committee.
>
> We’re looking for a person or organization that would be able to take on the bulk of the quantitative analysis, as well as conduct some categorization of the qualitative feedback under the direction of the user comittee members.
>
> In this case, we are not looking to commission an industry analyst report (that would be a separate project). Ideally this would be an independent / third party resource that we can put under NDA for the confidential responses (no direct ties to ecosystem companies).
>
> If you have any recommendations, please let us know!

Bitergia seems like a good place to start. They're already familiar with 
OpenStack, and have a very deep connection to Open Source in general.

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Rich Bowen - rbowen at redhat.com
OpenStack Community Liaison
http://openstack.redhat.com/