On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, > > I would like to propose that you please discuss my proposal for an > annual Fedora User Survey, as originally raised with FESCo: > > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/453 > > The point of this survey is to ask users (and potential users) what they > think of the current Fedora direction, the User_base, and other topics. > To include gathering information about the user demographic, and to feed > into future planning efforts on Fedora direction. Also, it's been 14 > releases and we've yet to really ask our customers what they think! I don't think of myself as a customer, but as a user I like it very much. > I was present at the FESCo meeting, wherein it was decided that such a > matter was the purview of the Fedora Board, who should discuss this. I > am going to raise this with the Fedora Marketing group, where we can > discuss possible ways to IMPLEMENT a survey, but that does not have to > gate the discussion giving a mandate to perform the survey initially. What is preventing you from just going off and doing it now? I hope you find encouragement but I also hope the board doesn't get in the business of issuing mandates. > Clearly, all surveys have an inherent bias to them, but we've had > anthropological studies performed on Fedora in the past and there are > known ways to make surveys less tainted. There are also independent > pollsters available who could be contracted to do this if needed. I > would hope that the Board would see value in gathering opinion on the > state of update policy, intended user base, though this should not block > current ongoing efforts to implement tighter controls on such things. I think interest in the results of this go way beyond the board and would affect decisions made throughout the project. Good luck with the research! John _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
