[OSGeo-Discuss] A few survey stats

[Tim Schaub]

On 5/12/11 10:30 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> If I can put in 2 cents for something that seems to have been missed:
> supporting open source development.

Bingo!

This was my immediate thought upon taking the survey as well.  Wish I 
had said something.

Personally, I would like to see the OSGeo foundation focus on the OSGeo 
projects.

Tim

> I know developers are mostly self motivating; but just like "target
> areas" devoted to use it would be good to see some target areas devoted
> to "development".
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Friday, 13 May 2011 at 5:30 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>
>> View online: http://bit.ly/osgeosurvey2
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>>
>> We just hit > 100 respondents on my recent survey! You can still chime
>> in with your thoughts on the direction and priorities for OSGeo:
>> http://bit.ly/osgeosurvey
>>
>> The first two questions were around priority "target areas", basically
>> constituents/groups/areas that we should, collectively, spend more
>> time working with e.g. Academic, business, government, etc.
>>
>> The first question just asked if they were good ideas and the results
>> were all pretty much positive - but with Academic development coming
>> out on top with the highest number of "this is important" votes.
>>
>> The second question forced voters to make a decision and rank the
>> ideas from least to most important. Again, Academic development came
>> out on top. I'll crunch some more stats later, but thought you might
>> find this graph interesting. Sorry if you don't like 6 axis graphs :)
>>
>> See the graph: http://bit.ly/osgeosurvey2
>>
>> The area within the blue line represents those who voted "unimportant"
>> for the topic and within the red line those who voted "important".
>> These are aggregates of "least important, low importance" vs "fairly,
>> very, most important". "Marginal importance" was ignored for this
>> graph. Note the larger the gap between the red and blue lines on an
>> axis shows a greater difference in voting preference. The two rings
>> represent 50% and 100% of votes.
>>
>> Even from this perspective it shows a very strong support for the
>> academic idea, with Government in second. Then Open Standards and Open
>> Data.
>>
>> Not a perfect summary but it's got me thinking and thought you might
>> find it interesting too. More to come when I get a chance to dig
>> through the numbers.
>>
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