Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Thought I would share a few preliminary results from the post-FOSS4G survey. As James says below, we'll get the data in a better form for analysis once we close the survey. But we got responses from 1/3 of attendees within 24 hours, which is great!</div>
<div><br></div><div>A few things I'd highlight:</div><div><br></div><div>67% of attendees were at their first FOSS4G</div><div>46% answered 5 to the question how heavily do you currently use geospatial open source, remainder split fairly evenly between 1-4.</div>
<div>61% were software developers as main job function, 18% end users, 20% managers</div><div>Overall rating of FOSS4G was 4.31 on a scale of 1-5, which is impressive!</div><div>Highest ranked function was the Wynkoop reception at 4.55.</div>
<div>Quality of presentations was ranked at 4.07.</div><div>72% answered 1 or 2 on how likely they are to be in Beijing, 14% answered 4 or 5.</div><div>57% answered 4 or 5 on attending a "local FOSS4G" if there was one in North America next year.</div>
<div>Of various possible options proposed for future FOSS4Gs, the one involving an annual local conference in North America was the highest rated by some margin (though obviously a sample skewed towards North Americans).</div>
<div><br></div><div>We need the more detailed spreadsheet to get scores and comments for individual workshops, I think that will be another important thing to look at in planning for next year.</div><div><br></div><div>Lots of interesting stuff in the comments too that we can use to make future events better.</div>
<div><br>Cheers,</div><div> Peter.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">James Sakamoto</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsakamoto@gita.org">jsakamoto@gita.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:36 PM<br>Subject: Preliminary Survey Results<br>To: Peter Batty <<a href="mailto:peter@ebatty.com">peter@ebatty.com</a>><br>Cc: Bob Samborski <<a href="mailto:bsamborski@gita.org">bsamborski@gita.org</a>>, Libby Hanna <<a href="mailto:lhanna@gita.org">lhanna@gita.org</a>>, Patricia Essex <<a href="mailto:pessex@gita.org">pessex@gita.org</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thought we would share the preliminary survey results. It is still very early but, so far, you almost have 300 (285) responses which would be nearly 33%!!! That is a tremendous response. Generally we get about 10-15%.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is just the summarized PDF synopsis. When the survey closes we should be able to provide you with an Excel formatted report that you can manipulate as you please.<u></u><u></u></p>
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