How do you pick an open-source software component?

We (at The Centre for Internet and Society, India) are conducting research on how users of open-source software think about the security of the projects they’re using. If you use any open source software tool/library/project for your work, we’d love to have your take. Survey here: https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/single/251cdd1e9cebe7f89a03c117d6504d42