| Bob
On 18/04/2020, at 4:59 AM, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jay,
Thanks for sharing the results of the survey.
One thing you didn’t call out was Question 6 "Why didn't you participate in the IETF 107 Virtual meeting? (check all that apply)”, The two responses that I found interesting were:
"There were no sessions of interest to me" 41%
We need to be cautious about that question because the likely margin of error, which we can only guess at, is high. For example, if we assume the total population of those that could have attended but chose not to is 3000 (I really have no idea) then 41% is roughly 27%-55% and 47% is roughly 33%-61%.
The IESG choose to only schedule a few w.g. sessions, I suspect there would have been more participation if more w.g sessions has been scheduled. For example, I only attended one BOF and the Plenary.
Having said that, I agree with your analysis on this point and I should note that a more thorough survey about virtual meetings in general is being prepared to provide better data for planning purposes.
"The time of day of the meeting was too difficult for me to participate" 47%
Almost half of the responses said this. This seems like an inherent problem with virtual meetings, probably accounts for the answers to question 1, "In what region do you live?”. This showed 53% from US and Canada, and 31% from Europe. Very little elsewhere. I wish there was a solution to this, but it’s clearly going to have a significant effect on IETF attendance until we can start having face to face meetings again.
I have not compared this distribution to that of other meetings to see if the difference is significant.
Jay -- Jay Daley
IETF Executive DirectorBobOn Apr 16, 2020, at 7:48 PM, IETF Executive Director <exec-director@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
The results from the post-meeting survey for IETF 107 Virtual are now available [1].. This is the default export format from our survey application with some minor redactions where text responses have been used to identify individuals or reference external websites.
Given the extraordinary circumstances around IETF 107 Virtual and the meeting being entirely online, the questions were focused primarily on the online experience and the individual components that delivered that experience.
There were 273 respondents, of which 227 participated in IETF 107 Virtual and we estimate the total number of participants for that meeting as 701.
Some highlights include:
* 53% of those that answered the survey are from the US or Canada
* 73% (+/-9.5%) of those that attended IETF 107 Virtual were satisfied or very satisfied with the meeting.
* The guides and testing sessions provided before the meeting were well used and well received. While we did not ask directly, we can assume they contributed to the success of the meetings.
* The combination of Webex/etherpad/jabber was largely satisfactory but significant improvements in the overall experience can be made, in particular in the area of integration, account management and client features (all of which Meetecho addresses).
It is our plan for our larger surveys like this one, to make a sanitised version of the raw data available to enable better analysis by both us and the community, but this takes a lot of work and we are not in a position to do that for this survey. This survey was run in anonymous mode and so no data was collected other than that explicitly provided.
The use of data for evidence-based decision making is a key strategic aim of the LLC and I would welcome contact from anyone who wants to help with that, whether it be with survey design, data transformation or results analysis.
If you have any questions or comments then please feel free to contact me directly.
[1] https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/ietf-107-survey-results.pdf
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