RE: university outreach project
- From: Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>
- To: John Williams <JWilliams business otago ac nz>
- Cc: marketing-list gnome org
- Subject: RE: university outreach project
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:01:48 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, John Williams wrote:
P.S. I am starting to think about writing up a grant request at my
school. If you have any burning questions that could be answered with
around NZD$5,000 (with research design, analysis and reporting for free)
please let me know. I will post further thoughts when I have them.
(Reminder: I am at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand.)
Something that would be relevant to all free software projects (including
GNOME) is answering questions such as:
How do we find how many users do we have?
How do we create a representative sample of those users so we can
do surveys/interviews/etc. and come up with meaningful results?
Answering those questions _in the context of open source_ seems like a
really hard problem, because we don't have any sales data to use, and
because using online polls to gauge user opinion suffers from severe
non-responder bias.
What are your thoughts there?
-- Elliot
We're so busy putting out fires that we don't take time to stop kids from
playing with matches.
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