Re: Running a Guix User and Contributor survey

[Steve George <steve@futurile.net>]

Hi Ekaitz,

Thanks for going through it!

On 31 Oct, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> I don't think the survey is very long.
> 
> We could try to answer and then share it with a note on the top that says
> how long it takes, so people can decide when to fill it.
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Agreed, I've added some intro text. And when I've set it up I'll run through it and make sure there's text saying how long it should take.

> Also I like when people have space to answer, because that motivates
> insightful responses. It probably goes against the theory on how to make a
> good survey but I believe it could be interesting to leave the space for
> complex thoughts. I think complexity of thoughts is often ignored and it's
> important to take good decisions.
> 
> Some specifics:
> 
> To the question about why Guix (Q5) I would add some flavor of "Free
> Software".
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Added, thanks for suggesting it.

> About if people is paid for working on Guix (Q22), I think there's something
> lost there even if the second answer can make it fit: people that use Guix
> and they are not paid for contributing in Guix but fixing/improving Guix
> sometimes is some consequence of their job. I mean, they are paid for it,
> but their job is not to improve Guix, but something else. It's tangential.
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Agreed, that we're not fully exploring this for now. For this time I only want 
to give it one question. Lets see what we get back and we can decide if it
should have further depth in future.

> About the financial support (Q29) maybe it's possible to ask how much people
> is open to give to Guix per month.
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Honestly, I think the way to find this out is to "do it". Something to explore
as a follow-up to the other thread maybe!

> Those are my two cents. In general, I like the survey.
> 
> It's probably ok just to launch it than to try to make it perfect the first
> time. We could run one per year and improve them according to the answers we
> get. Those that don't really give us interesting information we could just
> ignore.
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Agreed, it's better to do something, lets see if it gets a response and people fill it in.

> Have you thought about what platform use?
> 
> I think we could do with Framasoft:
> https://framasoft.frama.io/framaforms/en/
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I wasn't aware of this platform, I'll add it to the list.

Thanks for the input!

Steve / Futurile