Open Stack

It's increasingly sounding like we need a strategy in place for gathering
and refreshing data from the community. We have related problems with
response rates and survey burnout that we need to address if we are to
attempt broader data gathering.

Perhaps we should be finding ways to solicit feedback other than email,
where appropriate.

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Roland

On 8 October 2015 at 01:48, Barrett, Carol L <carol.l.barrett at intel.com>
wrote:

> Robert - Can you say a bit about the information you'd like to gather and
> the type of actions you're looking to inform from the survey?
>
> Thanks
> Carol
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robertc at robertcollins.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 11:37 AM
> To: foundation at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: [OpenStack Foundation] Foundation help running a developer survey?
>
> I proposed (to the openstack-dev mailing list) about 7 months back that we
> should run a developer survey, which got a positive reaction.
> I haven't followed up and actioned this for a few reasons.
>
> Firstly, there was some academic mail-bombing *everyone* inane surveys
> every week or two at that time, and I didn't want to burn folk out with yet
> *another* survey.
>
> Secondly, and I think more importantly, I realised that really we want a
> few things here that are not suited to a one-off by a random member of the
> community:
>  - If the questions are useful, we should refresh the data regularly.
> Not at the frequency of the user survey, but perhaps yearly?
>  - Secondly, we'll need a home for the data - and assuming its properly
> anonymous/anonymised - ongoing open access for us to ask questions about it
>  - The foundation already has a track record for doing both those things
> with the user survey...
>
> So, I'm wondering - would the foundation be interested/willing to help the
> developer community out by running such a survey across all ATC's
> (minimally, perhaps a wider net with 'are you an ATC' as a question would
> be good too) yearly-or-so ? I'd be delighted to help seed the survey with
> initial questions (from me and the folk that replied to my earlier
> proposal).
>
> -Rob
> --
> Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
> Distinguished Technologist
> HP Converged Cloud
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