Re: Hello and polling users

Hi Ron,

thanks for sharing your ideas with us. Since promotion is about the
bridge between users and the community it is not the worst place to
send your message here :-)

I like your idea. Surveys could keep us in touch with our users even
better and it would make it easier to get a picture of the whole group
than counting single statements in the Forum or on BKO or IRC or
something. I am not sure if our forum offers the possibility to do
simple surveys as well. We had some usability surveys done a couple of
months ago.

The main lack from my perspective is time. Limited time of the
contributors. There are always so many projects and tasks that should
be done.

Ron, you wrote that you have two weeks until the start of your
studies. Take that chance an experience KDE (the community) and KDE
Software. Get involved into your fascinating community. You can find
some information how to start [1] and [2]. Or just reply to that
group. *We would be glad to guide you.*

If you want to work on a possibility to make it easy for us to do
polls: Perfect! Just find a tasks that is relevant to you and start.

We hope to hear from you.

Cheers,
Thomas

[1] KDE in general: http://www.kde.org/community/getinvolved/
[2] KDE Promotion: http://www.kde.org/community/getinvolved/promotion/


2010/9/24 Ron Katzir <[email protected]>:
> Hi all,
>
> My name is Ron Katzir, and I'm a student starting MA in Math in about 2
> weeks' time. I've been following KDE since 4, for the last 2.5 years or so.
> I've tried to port myself to Linux, trying different distributions over
> time, but found myself always sticking to MS Windows. Still I have a special
> place in my heart for F/OSS and KDE especially.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but it seems the
> fittest. If not, I apologize for spamming and would gladly deliver it where
> it belongs.
>
> One of the strong points I find in Google's on-line free services is the
> connection with users. Satisfaction polls (surveys) are quite regularly
> conducted and feature requests are easily submitted. While KDE has
> Brainstorm to account for easy feature request, I believe surveys are as
> important.
>
> To shorten things, since this can be discussed a lot and I have quite a
> solid philosophy for my opinions on this matter :) I think that KDE should
> start conducting surveys to measure the satisfaction and discontent of its
> users, and identify the key elements of want.
>
> Since identity.kde.org is open for registration for everyone, I think this
> would be the ideal place to conduct such surveys regularly.
>
> This post has already become longer than I had intended. I'll just mention
> that the reason I saw it fit to post the idea here is that there's some
> relation between promotion and communications with users (developers/project
> and users). In a sense, surveys can be used to promote as well. For example,
> a survey of people who switched from KDE to GNOME or Mac or Windows can help
> identify issues for desertion and address them.
>
> Some questions for example:
> 1) Which part are you most (least) satisfied with in KDE: performance,
> stability, look, responsiveness, power management, power consumption, etc.
> 2) What is your computer configurations (Distribution, KDE SC version,
> processor, GPU, size of RAM)
> 3) What applications are you using most: Dolphin, PIM, Gwenview, Konsole,
> amaroK, etc.
>
> Anxious to have feedback
> --
> Ron
>
>
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