[web-team] Fwd: UC Study on STEM Professionals - SVLUG

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Robin Savinar (rlsavinar at ucdavis.edu):

> To SVLUG Officers,
> 
> I write to follow up on a query regarding a University of California
> research project about the careers of STEM professionals (see details
> below).
> 
> I would love to speak to someone from SVLUG to explain the study, and why
> SVLUG's participation is important.
> 
> Many thanks for your consideration.

Hullo, Robin.  Last month, in my capacity as one of SVLUG's webmasters
and mailing list administrators, I forwarded your Nov. 18th invitation
to the SVLUG main discussion mailing list.  So, it was seen by all SVLUG
members at that time.

If you wish to discuss the matter further with the members, you can do
so on that mailing list (SVLUG's main discussion forum).  

Sometimes I end up discussing these matterw with people unfamiliar with
mailing lists, so:  A mailing list is a group discussion forum routed
over e-mail and mediated by a central piece of softwrae (the mailing
list manager = MLM) that accepts e-mailed 'postings' to the mailing list
and remails each such 'posting' out to all the subscribers.  Typically,
all past postings are also recorded in a searchable Web archive.

For antispam reasons, in 2015, one must 'join' (subscribe to) a mailing
list before one is allowed to post to it.  Whenever one is tired of
receiving postings, one unjoins / unsubscribes.

The main discussion mailing list and the means of joining / unjoining 
(and public access to the back-postings archive) is here:

http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug


The above background is to help get you started.  The webmasters are
delighted to give members of the public assistance up to a point, e.g.,
we happily forwarded your initial query to the membership.  However,
there are limits to our availability for ongoing help.  If you wish to
'speak to somone from SVLUG to explain the study', I'm sure that would
be welcome, but self-service is the general rule, e.g., you would need
to join the mailing list, post to it, participate to the extent you wish
to, unjoin when you are done and wish to no longer be on the mailing
list, and so on.  The webmasters have limited availabiluty for
handholding.  (Speaking for myself, I'm actually in the Caribbean on
vacation, and may not be reading e-mail much at all.)



> All best,
> 
> Robin
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Robin Savinar <rlsavinar at ucdavis.edu>
> Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:17 PM
> Subject: UC Study on STEM Professionals - SVLUG
> To: webmaster at svlug.org, andrewbfife at yahoo.co.uk, paul at reiber.org,
> svlug at sigkill.com
> 
> 
> Dear Andrew, Paul and SVLUG Webmaster,
> 
> 
> I am Robin Savinar, the Principal Investigator for a UC Davis study about
> the career trajectories of science and technology professionals in the
> greater San Francisco Bay Area.
> 
> I write to ask if you would share information about the study with the
> SVLUG community. Empirical research comparing the professional outcomes
> across various sub-fields within STEM is needed to understand which areas
> offer the best opportunities for advancement, compensation, etc. We want to
> compare these outcomes across gender, race/ethnicity and immigration-status.
> 
> 
> Since Linux programmers and other profesionals are an important part of
> STEM in Santa Clara and San Francisco, we to make sure your perspectives
> are represented.
> 
> One component of our research is a brief online survey about employment.*
> If you are amenable to sharing the survey link I would send you a short
> announcement to circulate to members.*
> 
> This study has been approved by UC Davis’ Institutional Review Board.
> Participation in the survey is completely voluntary and all responses will
> be kept confidential. No personally identifiable information will be
> associated with responses in any reports of this data.
> 
> I appreciate your consideration and am happy to answer any questions.
> 
> 
> 
> *Robin Savinar, PhD Candidate*
> 
> *University of California at Davis*
> 
> *One Shields Avenue*
> 
> *Davis, CA 95616*
> 
> *rlsavinar at ucdavis.edu* <rlsavinar at ucdavis.edu>
> 
> *(510) 517-0820 <%28510%29%20517-0820>*

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