[sakai2-tcc] Lazy consensus proposal on CLE upgrade information survey

[May, Megan Marie]

Agreed!

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Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] Lazy consensus proposal on CLE upgrade information survey

"as of Jan 2013" could be updated to Feb.

Otherwise, it looks good.

J-F

On 05/02/2013 18:08, Neal Caidin wrote:
> I guess having a date for the decision to be made wouldn't be a bad thing.
>
> How about lazy consensus decision by Friday, Feb 8, close of business 
> on Eastern standard time, as the crow flys?
>
> -- Neal
>
> On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Neal Caidin 
> <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org <mailto:nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>> wrote:
>
>> Hi TCC,
>>
>> I'm not sure if I'm doing this lazy consensus thing right, but here goes.
>>
>> Survey from last year - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/38PWRKG
>> Survey for this year -
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?PREVIEW_MODE=DO_NOT_USE_THIS_LINK_
>> FOR_COLLECTION&sm=k9jAoowiQWlWZBMtA16M6SqcHghw9Q3O30D92kXEwCU%3d
>> <http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?PREVIEW_MODE=DO_NOT_USE_THIS_LINK
>> _FOR_COLLECTION&sm=k9jAoowiQWlWZBMtA16M6SqcHghw9Q3O30D92kXEwCU%3d>
>>
>> The main question I've been trying to figure out is whether to 
>> include a question about the frequency of upgrades. It seems like a 
>> useful piece of information to have. As I was going through the 
>> process to think about it's inclusion, it occured to me that it would 
>> be important to know Why an institution chooses to upgrade with a 
>> particular frequency. It also occured to me that there might not be a 
>> set frequency that is used for each upgrade and upgrade timing might 
>> vary based on a number of factors. For these reasons, it seems to me 
>> like this kind of information might be best gathered by talking with 
>> the schools directly or some other means.
>>
>> My rationale for deploying the survey as it is written now:
>>
>> * It seems to me to be a short well-defined survey is more likely to 
>> get a high response rate from the community
>> * This survey is almost the same as the survey last year, which had a 
>> good return rate
>> * If we plan to ping the community on a semi-regular basis, it would 
>> be good to establish credibility that our surveys are "tight", don't 
>> take long to answer and add value to the community
>> * Some of the additional questions raised by the TCC might make sense 
>> for inclusion on additional surveys or by exploring alternative means 
>> of gathering the data.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Neal Caidin
>>
>> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
>> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org 
>> <mailto:nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>
>> Skype: nealkdin
>> AIM: ncaidin at aol.com <mailto:ncaidin at aol.com>
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