Re: Emacs Survey 2022 - design

["Jostein Kjønigsen" <jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net>]

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On 17.05.2022 16:51, Timothy wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I’ve recently been chatting with Adrien Brochard (who ran the 2020 
> Emacs survey), and I’m pushing for a 2022 Emacs survey.
>
> Even with detailed telemetry (urgh) it can be hard to understand the 
> range of experiences and opinions users have. As such, particularly 
> once we have past surveys to reference and some consistent questions, 
> I see quite a bit of value in helping:
>
>  1. Emacs developers,
>  2. Emacs package developers/maintainers,
>  3. The Emacs community itself
>
> better understand the Emacs community.
>
> Of course, this being a fiercely FOSS community, the situation with 
> survey platforms leaves quite a bit to be desired. To resolve this 
> issue, I spent some time last year writing a 100% FOSS, survey 
> framework <https://github.com/tecosaur/emacs-survey> which is 
> completely functional without any JS. I have attached some screenshots 
> of it to this email.
>
> It would be good to maximise the utility of the survey to the three 
> groups mentioned earlier. In this vein I hope some of you, 
> emacs-devel, would be willing to provide some feedback on the survey :)
>
> Attached you may find the current draft survey questions, both as 
> survey-questions.org file and the configuration file used by my survey 
> framework, survey.jl. If you’d like, you can even try running the 
> survey locally.
>
> Lastly, if any of you would like to chat about this over IRC you can 
> find me as “tecosaur” on libera.chat, and @tecosaur:matrix.org over on 
> Matrix.
>
> All the best,
> *Timothy*
>

A few comments:

- How were you introduced to Emacs? "Emacs recommended by collegue" is 
not an option, despite using Emacs for work being an option.
- Survey seems programmer-centric. What about people using Emacs for 
non-programming purposes? I.e. as a text-editor?
- Which Industry do you work in? Could use a creative/writing? 
Media/publishing? Etc.

My 2 cents

-- 
*Jostein Kjønigsen*
jostein.kjønigsen.no <https://jostein.kjønigsen.no>
jostein@kjonigsen.net - jostein@gmail.com

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