Ruediger Glott worked from 1993 to 2000 at the Institute for Sociological Research (SOFI - Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut) of the University of Göttingen, working on a wide range of projects on quantitative and qualitative aspects of work in the service sector and on Internet-based collaboration of SMEs in Germany and the USA. He is experienced in qualitative as well as quantitative empirical work and participated in all kinds of work associated with the analysis of data sets and the execution of surveys. Since 2001 he has been at MERIT/Infonomics, where he played a key role in the design, execution and analysis of the EU-funded FLOSS developer and user surveys on free/open source software.