Re: GNOME user survey 2011

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe contreras gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last time I suggested something like this the response was not so
> great, but lately I've feeling that there's a lot of dissatisfaction
> with GNOME 3. Why not find for good what people are thinking with an
> user-survey?

  Was it really necessary to start your mail with negativity?

> It would be great if some sort of notification would popup directly on
> user's desktops, this way it can ensured that the maximum amount of
> people are notified.

  Assuming user is given the choice at first login if he/she wants to
participate, it is indeed a good idea. Would you be providing patches
for this?

> Otherwise, I think planet GNOME, reddit, twitter,
> Google+ and so on should give plenty of feedback. Maybe also contact
> Ars Technica, LWN, Phornix, and so on would help.

  Those sites will surely get us plenty of geeks but as I said to you
in person when I asked you to make this survey happen, there must be
at least 10% participation from people who can't be put in the 'geek'
category: ordinary people in non-technical professions. One way to
check that would be to ask a few simple questions like:

* How often do you use terminal/console?
* How do you rate your computer skills from 1-10.
* etc

  Also, most people are still on facebook so better advertise this on
facebook gnome3 page too.

  Other than that, the questionare you came-up looks good. :)

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124