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

[Neal Caidin]

Here's my thinking. If PMC doesn't like it, I'll just drop it and go with
combining the two surveys into one (upgrade plans survey and tools survey).

I'll open up a wiki page [1] and allow the community up to two weeks to
suggest questions. I seeded it with one question that I think people are
interested in knowing, is your institution hosted in the cloud ? (wording
could be improved).

PMC can review the questions from the community and let me know which ones
to use and tweaking to how things are worded.

[1] Wiki page to collect community suggestions for what could be asked on
the survey.
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/2015+Community+Survey+question+brainstorm

Happy Monday,
Neal


On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Noah Botimer <botimer at umich.edu> wrote:

> 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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