[Qgis-psc] Closing the poll?

René-Luc Dhont rldhont at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 01:27:59 PDT 2015


Hi Tim,

Can we fix a date for closing the poll ?
I'd like to announce it before.

Regards,
René-Luc

Le 26/10/2015 19:25, Tim Sutton a écrit :
> Hi
>
>
>> On 26 Oct 2015, at 17:35, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net 
>> <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I agree with Vincent. It would be better to close the poll and have a 
>> new poll later (in a year or two). We will have different 
>> questions in the future and a new poll would reflect that.
>>
>> I would also suggest to make only few polls. Polls are usually 
>> annoying and if we do them too often, we won't get a lot of 
>> feedback. Who really enjoys filling in polls? I would be against 
>> doing polls for every release. Only maybe every LTR release or for 
>> every second LTR release.
>>
>
>
> Ok Ill close it
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On 26.10.2015 16:17, Vincent Picavet (ml) wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On 26/10/2015 15:06, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>>> Il 26/10/2015 14:11, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>>> Or perhaps we should consider refining it based on our experiences 
>>>>> from
>>>>> this on and then repost it and leave it permanently online. It 
>>>>> would be
>>>>> very useful to e.g. embed it in a widget off QGIS Help -> Tell us what
>>>>> you think menu and let people give us their feedback on a long running
>>>>> basis.
>>>> good idea. in this case, I'd suggest to reduce the number of questions,
>>>> and make it more general (once started, changing the question would
>>>> complicate the stats).
>>> I think it would be better to accompany each release of QGIS with a new
>>> poll. This has a few advantages :
>>>
>>> * users who already took the survey will re-post if it is presented as a
>>> new survey, but not if it is considered the same
>>> * it is easier to analyze answers if they are made in a short time
>>> frame. Otherwise you will compare things from different times, with
>>> different contexts (and qgis versions)
>>> * Different times and different contexts will lead to different
>>> questions being interesting to poll. You cannot change questions on a
>>> permanent poll, or it gets a real mess
>>> * On a general marketing point of view, is it easier to publicize a
>>> "new" thing than a "reborn" one. Having a new (versionned) poll per
>>> release, and inviting downloaders to take the poll would probably be
>>> efficient in terms of participation
>>>
>>> Vincent
>>>
>>>
>>>
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