[sakai-pmc] Time for Community survey(s)?

[Noah Botimer]

It's one thing to be open to input. It's another to block on it. I'd
suggest a defined period/deadline, working in the open, and listening to
input, but not making a broad call for survey designers. The PMC is
ultimately the administrator and primary customer -- nothing surprising or
strange there -- so PMC should act like any open source project and just do
the work while keeping ears open. Keep it focused and rather brief.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Mar 11, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

I think it is both for the PMC and for the community. Definitely some
community members reference the information and compare it to their own
use. Plus, I wonder if we should do something that helps schools that use
common tools "find" each other?  We have the institutional level data, but
I'm not sure it is okay to share it with the institutions at that level.
For example, what if I introduced the 35 schools we know use Turnitin
and/or schedule a webinar for them to introduce themselves to each other,
share stories, and compare strategies for the future?

I think I would like to send out a community survey to see if the community
would be open to a survey to figure out additional survey questions. <just
kidding>

Actually, with crowdsourcing, I would simply create a wiki page or use
Google moderator to get input. AFAICT, nobody in the community is saying
that their opinion is asked too frequently and they just "hate" that.

2 cents.

Neal



On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Are the questions meant to be for information sharing between
> institutions, or are they meant to be so the PMC can see when people plan
> to upgrade, what tools are used, what ones might be eligible for
> deprecation/promotion etc?
>
> I think it's mainly for the PMC TBH, so we should come up with the list of
> questions.
>
> Anyway, a survey to figure out the survey questions, overload!
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sakai PMC,
>>
>> It's about time for the community surveys for Sakai upgrade plans and
>> Tool use. Should I keep them separate since the Upgrade plan one is so much
>> shorter? Or maybe I should just combine them into one? The latter seems
>> like a better strategy to me.
>>
>> I also like the idea of crowd sourcing to gather questions of interest to
>> the community. Do you like the idea? Should I do that first and then
>> combine it all into one survey?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Neal
>>
>>
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