Re: GNOME user survey 2011

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 08/01/2011 03:44 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org> wrote:
>> On 08/01/2011 12:11 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>> lately I've feeling that there's a lot of dissatisfaction
>>> with GNOME 3.
>>
>> I feel this is highly suggestive. Besides we knew 3.0 was a DOT ZERO
>> release. GNOME needed the software to be out there to gather feedback
>> and 'help the code to mature' (that's an automatic magical process ;-) ).
>>
>> 3.2 is coming out in September and a lot of issues are addressed there.
>> Shouldn't it be more judicious to wait for a more polished GNOME 3.x to
>> be in the hands of users to ask for feedback?
> 
> We could wait until 3.2 to publish the survey, that doesn't mean we
> shouldn't start preparing it.
> 
Sure. But writing a survey and publishing it takes less than a week. It
seems you're well ahead on the questions part already, and I also feel
you have a personal agenda to fulfill with this survey.

I agree that we still need to talk about how to get the survey to most
people and what's the best way to attract a "representative part" of the
GNOME user base. Thinking out loud here, I wonder what could be done to
get distributions providing GNOME 3 to advertise the survey on their
websites. Maybe calling it a census would also sound more neutral.

I would also try to involve the GNOME marketing team as they can help or
have ideas about positively marketing this census.

As a side note, GNOME has limesurvey installed on its servers I believe
so I don't think we need to host it anywhere else.

Fred