Re: [Fwd: GNOME Developer Survey]

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

+1.

We already have survey infrastructures setup for foundation use.  Maybe next
time someone comes along we can use their time to run a survey that the board
approved and is conducted on our own infrastructure, under our own terms.

behdad

On 01/31/11 05:05, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> 	These people are irritating ... three spams from the same group. They
> shot themselves in the foot in the third paragraph with the "twenty
> minutes" IMHO.
> 
> 	Can I suggest that the Board complains to these guys for hassling our
> contributors - and/or is this sanctioned - I assume it must be since
> they use the trademark in their 'GNOME developer survey' title.
> 
> 	Furthermore - since these surveys are at least somewhat frequent, can I
> suggest that in future, the foundation acts as an intermediary:
> 
> 	* to review the content of these surveys pwrt. brevity
> 	* to normalise some questions such that we have a consistent
> 	  set of questions over time we can graph.
> 	* to broker and publish the complete raw data under some
> 	  suitable open license.
> 	* provide some financial incentive to the foundation per
> 	  respondant, rather than some uncertain prize
> 	* to do the mailing of questions themselves - and do this
> 	  only once.
> 
> 	HTH,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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