[Qgis-psc] Closing the poll?

Wed Oct 28 06:41:44 PDT 2015

Hi Tim,

How to close the poll ? Do I have to remove it ?

Regards,
René-Luc

Le 27/10/2015 11:42, Tim Sutton a écrit :
> Hi René
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:27 AM, René-Luc Dhont <rldhont at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rldhont at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Tim,
>
>     Can we fix a date for closing the poll ?
>     I'd like to announce it before.
>
>
>  Yeah sure - I close the english one...the french one you can close 
> whenever you like - I think you can do it yourself from in the form 
> designer.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim 
>
>     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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