Re: Running a Guix User and Contributor survey

[indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>]

On 2024-11-01 08:59, Wilko Meyer wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Steve George <steve@futurile.net> writes:
> 
>> I've designed a 'Guix User and Contributor Survey' which I'd like to 
>> run to
>> explore what users love about Guix, and how contributors interact
>> with the project. I would love feedback on it.
> 
> Thanks for putting work into this, that's awesome! In terms of general
> feedback: There was a general discussion on surveys[0] a year ago, I'd
> like to highlight this mail[1] by Katherine in particular, as it
> contains excellent points on survey/questionnaire design and good
> practices.
> 
> Regarding your proposed questionnaire: I think that it would benefit
> from asking about the level of Guile proficiency/if there's
> prior-experience with lisp family languages/if people learned Guile
> because of Guix.
> 
>> * The tricky part of running a survey is keeping it to a reasonable 
>> length, you
>> quickly find there's lots you'd love to know, but the balancing factor 
>> is the
>> more questions someone has to answer the lower the completion rate! 
>> Ideas on
>> how to shorten the design while keeping the same areas of enquiry 
>> would be
>> welcome.
> 
> It could be feasible to categorize questions into two boxes:
> 
> - Questions we want to track over time as we want to track how 
> responses
>   change over the years, that have to be iterated yearly.
> - Questions we want to ask once/every few years, as we want to work 
> with
>   a snapshot in time instead of longterm tracking answers in short
>   iterations.
> 
> and then have a annual/biennial survey, always asking all questions 
> from
> the first box, and then split-up questions from the second box
> throughout the years.
> 

If it is to be a biennial survey it may be useful to allow people to 
upload previous questionaires,
so that they can be parsed for populating new survey responses.

I can provide a parser prior to the subsequent polling in TXR if that 
helps.

>> * If anyone has skills/experience in analysing results and would like 
>> to get
>> involved I would love help.
> 
> Don't know yet what my timebudget will look like when the results are
> in, but generally I'd be available for this (if time permits)!
> 
> [0]: 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-09/msg00402.html
> [1]: 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-09/msg00481.html