Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Survey Published

[Tim McConnell <tmick1 earthlink net>]

> @ Tim: Don’t worry we need all people filling this even negatively.

I was thinking  more along the lines of how many people might not be
willing to take the survey because it might be a phishing site, which
was brought to my attention from the comment: "Frankly, my first thought
was: "how do I know this survey is really coming from GNOME?" It is not
hosted by an official GNOME site. It is just a spreadsheet in Google
Docs that any one could put together. "
So if future surveys are done one of the considerations for the survey
should be how it is presented and what can be done to ease those types
of fears. 

The other comments that caught my attention was: "They just seem to be
collecting data on what folks are using
Gnome/Linux for, nothing about what people WANT from Gnome 3" and "As to
the usability study linked in the first post, I didn't see
anything there that could possibly influence the direction of Gnome 3.
Maybe they really ought to rethink the questions...." 

So in a future version of a survey it might be an idea to throw in
questions like what don't you like about GNOME or what things would you
change/improve in GNOME? It could be an idea to do a survey about
Nautilus functionality improvements, I read the survey results so far
and Compiz and Nautilus seem to be the main complaints so far. Evolution
seems to need some tender loving care also. 

I do agree the survey did/does pull good data, and as far as I'm
concerned does give a good idea of how the new menu bar would be
beneficial to GNOME in general. 
If you do decide to do another survey I would be happy to help. I like
the Wikki idea but can offer no ideas on how to parse the data from
that. 
Also with your permission I would like to post the survey results to my
post in Fedora Forums.  

 

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Tim McConnell <tmick1 earthlink net>


On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 21:15 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote:
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> Sorry for top posting  but I have no other option right now.
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> Of course we could try a second time but I think that the results so
> far are really good with nearly 360 responses and a lot of text in the
> free paragraph part. Now I’ve made the logic for sending only to
> people that have agreed by using spreadsheet functions. I think that
> in addition to the survey I can make the results as pdf containing
> charts and explanation for each questions (with separate charts for
> the other option that I don’t know how to extract). Also the second
> part of the pdf would be a Name (or Anonymous) with accompanying
> comment about what might be improved. I can tell you there is a lot to
> analyze and we would probably need a wiki page for the most wanted
> ideas or smth like that.
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> @ Tim: Don’t worry we need all people filling this even negatively.
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> My goal was to make the basis and to get people interested. You can
> see there is a lot of interest and it can be positively be used for
> contributions for making a better way to interact with computers
> (workflow, looks, integration, etc.).
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> Anton
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> From: stormy peters gmail com [mailto:stormy peters gmail com] On
> Behalf Of Stormy Peters
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:32 PM
> To: tmick1 earthlink net
> Cc: Anton Kerezov; Gnome Usability
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Survey
> Published
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> I think it could have used some more review and input. We can always
> try again with a second try!
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