Re: [Request for Comment] User Survey

Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Message-ID <CAFkLwpU5GVi7-_3QrZDC_KuRRvMLtuVQDH+46awfY2MUUTW2hQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Harold Schreckengost <[email protected]> wrote:
> Holding off won't be a problem.

Cool.

> As far as the purpose, it's so that we can
> understand both where we (the promo team) need to focus as far as
> announcements, and so that we can provide data to help make it better for
> our users.

Ok. If you're only getting this data for promotion after software has
already been developed I think you're not going to be in a very good
position. What you want then is product management in the broadest
sense. Which means in this case getting input for the developers
before they write the software to help them make more informed
decisions. That'll make everything afterwards much easier. KDE promo
has not been in a position to really do this so far but that is
something that can change.

> As far as it being desktop-centric, that is intentional. Since that is still
> most of what is made, it makes sense to start out with that. If this goes
> well and gets a reasonable number of responses, I would be more than open to
> expanding the scope.

We need to be very very careful with anything that pushes us more into
the desktop-only corner. We've been working on this for so long. We
shouldn't paddle back unless there are really good reasons.
And yes the desktop is what our users are mostly using right now but
that is because that is the biggest and most mature thing we have to
offer. If we had more and better offerings in other areas this would
look very different. We need to think about where we want to go and
take steps in that direction instead of only focusing on what we have.
https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/manage-your-time-like-google-invests-its-resources-70-20-10-3bb4d600abaa
is a really good article about this.


Cheers
Lydia

-- 
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
KDE e.V. Board of Directors / KDE Community Working Group
http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org

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