Dear Respondents,

My name is Abdul Razak Faiek, a postgraduate student at Universiti Utara Malaysia. I am conducting a pilot study on a research entitled "Examining Virtual Leadership Behavior towards Knowledge Sharing in Online Programming Communities". This survey has two sections. Section A and section B. It will take approximately 5 - 10 minutes to complete the survey.



Before answering the survey, please go through our definition of "influential member".



* Influential Member : A person whose ideas, opinions, knowledge, skills or characteristics that triggers you to participate and strongly influence your existence in this Online Programming Communities.





*Online Programming Community : is an online community platform for programmers and open-source software enthusiast that provide a place to connect, build and share knowledge as well as learn to develops websites, apps, programs and games.





All responses are treated anonymous and will be kept strictly confidential. Your cooperation and willingness to participate in this survey is highly appreciated. If you have any inquiries regarding the study, you can contact me at 0135007022 or email me at qazakian@gmail.com





Please provide information about your background for our study by answering the following questions. This information is important to allow us to study the effects of differences between people on their perceptions about their Online Programming Communities. (tick where necessary).