Re: Survey: GUADEC and Akadamy co-location in 2011

[Philip Van Hoof <pvanhoof gnome org>]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 12:33 -0500, john palmieri wrote:

> I would like to point out that the survey was pretty narrow. For
> instance I said "do it" but I have the same reservations I had when I
> voted to not do it for this years GUADEC.  I want to see this happen
> right, which is to have us collaborate but at the same time keep our
> identities.

I think we should stop being afraid and "just do it".

It's more than clear that this is what our community wants.

These numbers are unambiguous (just like last year's survey):

> Do it vs Don't do it
> - contributors: 54 vs 25 (64.23% vs 29.76%)
> - foundation members: 49 vs 22 (65.33% vs 29.33%)
> - attended GCDS: 46 vs 19 (67.65% vs 27.94%)
> - attended guadec once: 9 vs 4 (69.23% vs 30.77%)
> - attended guadec more than once: 35 vs 19 (60.34% vs 32.76%)
> - never attended guadec: 22 vs 5 (70.97% vs 16.13%)

That's an overwhelming majority who want to co-locate.

> Productive improvements for GNOME:
> - yes, directly: 15 (14.56%)
> - yes, indirectly: 61 (59.22%)
> - no: 17 (16.50%) 

This is an even greater overwhelming majority.


Cheers,

Philip


> 2010/2/1 Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>
>         Le lundi 01 février 2010, à 17:11 +0100, Vincent Untz a
>         écrit :
>         > Le lundi 01 février 2010, à 10:39 -0500, Joe 'Zonker'
>         Brockmeier a écrit :
>         > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Vincent Untz
>         <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
>         > > >
>         > > > Is there anyone who would like to help create a useful
>         summary of the
>         > > > results? I have some stats already, but if you let me do
>         this alone,
>         > > > I'll likely only present some less-effort stats ;-)
>         > >
>         > > Depends on how time-sensitive it is. I should have some
>         time towards
>         > > the end of the week, but right now am pretty swamped.
>         >
>         > Well, I would be hoping to be able to send some analysis in
>         the next few
>         > days. I guess if nobody steps up soon enough, I'll just
>         publish what I
>         > have and the raw results, so people could take a look and
>         produce more
>         > interesting stats.
>         
>         
>         Here are the stats I did (hopefully, I didn't get anything
>         wrong ;-)).
>         I'm attaching the results in case anybody wants to play with
>         them. Note
>         that I removed the answers to the free form entry since it
>         made it
>         possible to guess who replied what in a few cases (it
>         shouldn't be a big
>         loss, though).
>         
>         + 103 people replied
>          - 84 are contributors (81.55%) and 18 aren't (17.48%)
>          - 75 are foundation members (72.82%) and 27 aren't (26.21%)
>          - 68 attended GCDS (66.02%) and 33 didn't (32.04%)
>          - 13 (12.62%) attended a GUADEC (before GCDS), 58 (56.31%)
>         attended 2
>            or more, and 31 (30.10%) never went to GUADEC
>         
>         + Do it vs Don't do it
>          - contributors: 54 vs 25 (64.23% vs 29.76%)
>          - foundation members: 49 vs 22 (65.33% vs 29.33%)
>          - attended GCDS: 46 vs 19 (67.65% vs 27.94%)
>          - attended guadec once: 9 vs 4 (69.23% vs 30.77%)
>          - attended guadec more than once: 35 vs 19 (60.34% vs 32.76%)
>          - never attended guadec: 22 vs 5 (70.97% vs 16.13%)
>         
>         + only/more likely to attend vs will not/less likely to attend
>         if
>          co-located
>          - contributors: 9 vs 10 (10.71% vs 11.90%)
>          - non-contributors: 10 vs 0 (55.56% vs 0%)
>         
>         + productive improvements for GNOME:
>          - yes, directly: 15 (14.56%)
>          - yes, indirectly: 61 (59.22%)
>          - no: 17 (16.50%)
>         
>         + misc:
>          - nobody said "do it" and "it won't lead to any improvement
>         for GNOME"
>          - 10 people said "don't do it" and "it will lead to
>         direct/indirect
>            improvements for GNOME"
>          - 9 people replied while they don't plan to go to GUADEC in
>         2011
>            (4 of them said "do it", 2 said "don't do it")
>         
>         
>         Vincent
>         
>         --
>         Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.
>         
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