Re: [Request for Comment] User Survey

Hello Harold,

I agree with Lydia about your plan for a user survey. Please don't do this.

Your enthusiasm is greatly appreciated. Still, I suggest that you take 
it easy for a while ... build some credibility with the KDE Community 
and with KDE Promo ... look at dot.kde.org and planetKDE for some 
history of KDE promotion and for a deeper understanding of what KDE is 
all about.

It comes off as flighty when you jump from one thing to another to 
another to another ... from video cataloging to setting up an unnecesary 
calendar on the community wiki, to analyzing what's wrong with the Krita 
fundraising campaign, to project management for KDE Promo, etc. All 
within less than 3 weeks since you joined the KDE Promo mailing list.

It would help to get a sense of where you're coming from and what you 
want to accomplish. Please tell us more about your background and 
experience with marketing and promotion. What is your experience with 
free and open technology and with KDE? What is your education? What kind 
of work have you done...are you doing? What results have you produced?

One of the problems with doing a survey as you've suggested is that it 
sets up expectations that you by yourself have no way of fulfilling. 
More importantly, as Lydia points out, the results are likely to set 
back initiatives that have been years in the making.

The KDE Community is a collaborative, cooperative project. Lone Rangers 
don't do so well in this sort of environment. You seem to be as 
enthusiastic about KDE as many of us are. However, with your scattered 
approach, you risk not being taken seriously.

Carl







On 05/10/2015 08:51 AM, Harold Schreckengost wrote:
> The eventual goal with this is in fact to be able to use this data to
> help make everything better as well.  For the time being, though, the
> most immediate benefit is going to be to the promo team.  Once
> everything is in, I will be making the results and analysis available to
> everyone, and as soon as I get this round of changes, I will be getting
> a hold of developers to see if they have any additional needs or input.
>
> If this survey generates useful data, I will be working on another
> survey to help us with other users.  This is just to cover the broadest
> group with the shortest survey. I am not against some small expansion of
> the survey to better grasp the other projects, if anyone has particular
> things they wish to know about?
>
> Albert, what would you recommend I change that to?  The branding thing
> is my biggest concern with the content, so any recommendations are welcome.
>
> On May 10, 2015 10:45 AM, "Albert Astals Cid" <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     El Diumenge, 10 de maig de 2015, a les 01:12:32, Harold Schreckengost va
>     escriure:
>      > Hello, everyone!
>      >
>      > I put together a survey to hopefully help us better understand
>     the wants
>      > and needs of our users.  It is not "officially" live, yet, but I
>     had to
>      > activate it to get feedback.
>      >
>      > It's located at http://survey.kde.org/index.php/279266/lang-en
>      >
>      > If you guys could take a look real quick and point out any issues
>     with it,
>      > that would be great.  I am aware of issues regarding the
>     "branding" of
>      > Plasma 5, which I am unsure of how to deal with, so any ideas on
>     that front
>      > would be appreciated as well
>
>     "Examples of Desktop Environments include KDE" please fix that.
>
>     Cheers,
>        Albert
>
>      >
>      > For the time being, please keep the link internal; once it is
>     hammered out,
>      > we can start distributing it.  It is designed to be shared
>     outside the
>      > community eventually, but not just yet.
>      >
>      > Thanks!
>      >
>      > Harold
>
>


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