Re: The Little Game - final version.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Justin Kirby <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Lukas <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 26 replies so far (~20% participation rate), great :)  On the other hand
>> 83% views came from direct links, and none from some real blog. If you are
>> interested in stats - http://bit.ly/KDE_Survey2011+
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> Fantastic :)
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Wow, I just got around to actually looking at these web stats and they're
quite interesting.  Key points imho:

* Still about 20% participation rate so a lot of people saw it and neglected
to fill it out.  I think this says something about the complexity as
mentioned earlier in the thread.
* 34% of the people who viewed the survey were from the United States.  It's
almost like we have users here or something, who knew?! :)
* participation seems to have died around the beginning of April so I'm
guessing nobody has made an effort to promote this lately

In terms of a pilot survey we probably have enough responses to merit
reviewing what we've got.  Lukas, will you be going through the results and
parsing out the interesting feedback and maybe generating some stats based
on the actual survey responses?

-Justin



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>>> Cool!  One thought...in terms of how we market this (if anyone is going
>>> to blog about it) we might want to focus around it being about "idea
>>> collection" rather than a typical survey.  I've gotten some comments from
>>> people who have said
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>>> 1) this data will be hard to analyze and
>>> 2) this looks like a lot of typing.
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>>> I think that in a traditional survey where you're trying to figure out
>>> the most popular answer to certain questions the first part is a valid
>>> concern but to me this is more about getting fresh/new ideas which we could
>>> use to highlight KDE's strengths and potentially fix weaknesses, or the
>>> perception of such weaknesses, rather than just trying to tabulate what
>>> answer came up the most.
>>>
>>> That second point is valid, but unfortunately for the type of information
>>> we're trying to collect I think it's unavoidable.  If we had pre-selected
>>> answers for people to just click radio buttons we wouldn't get any new ideas
>>> out of the activity.  Hopefully it will at least mean anyone that takes the
>>> time to answer will have some thoughtful input even if the total participant
>>> count ends up being lower.
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>> Cant agree more :) Even if we finally get 100 responses - its still
>> doable. Especially then most of the input is done with  "keep it short" in
>> mind. With closed question we would never have such survey. I hardly imagine
>> all interesting options (including hard ones)written down and approved.
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>> Also multiple-choice surveys are less reliable, since the tone of the
>> suggested answers can manipulate answers by as much as 50% or more :(
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>> Anyway, when survey will be closed (is 1 week enough?) I'd like to post
>> results and insights of the ideas collected. Is there a chance to get a blog
>> for that purpose added to planet KDE? If so, whom shall I contact?
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> I think we've not done much work advertising it yet so I don't think we
> should close it so soon.  No need to impose a hard deadline just yet imo.
>  Let's see if we can get another surge of people to do it if we promote it a
> bit more.
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> I've grown very lazy about writing blog posts for planetkde but I could do
> this if nobody else has time.  But first, are there any other takers to do
> this?
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> Lukas, if you have a blog you can find the rules about getting onto the
> planet at: http://planetkde.org/.  Just click the "Add your blog" link at
> the top for instructions.
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> -Justin
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>> Thanks,
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>> Lukas
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