[Foss4g2009] Re: [Foss4g2009-private] Workshop evaluation

[Cameron Shorter]

Alexandre (slashgeo),

We are discussing surveying foss4g workshop attendees, and how we should 
do it within a web page form or similar. Is this something that you 
would want to coordinate through slashgeo? (I'm aware that slashgeo have 
evaluation forms, are they up to the task?)

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Surveymonkey. Pay for a month's subscription and go crazy.
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'm strongly in favour of the electronic version, specifically because the
>> data is most valuable in electronic format, so that you can build graphs and
>> do comparisons etc, and the effort in setting up a questionaire site is much
>> less than scanning hundreds of pieces of paper, and re-entering the text.
>>
>> As Jeff mentioned, there are websites dedicated to collecting polls.
>> Slashgeo have one, and I'm pretty sure OSgeo has one too. Why not just
>> configure one of those?
>>
>> Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>     
>>> Volker Mische wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi All (especially Mark-the-ultimate-workshop-organisator),
>>>>
>>>> I promised a long time ago to write an webapp for the evaluation of the
>>>> workshops. Although it isn't hard to write, I wonder if it wouldn't be
>>>> much easier to do it the old style pen and paper way.
>>>>
>>>> My reasons for proposing this:
>>>> 1. I need to write the app
>>>> 2. There could be bugs
>>>> 3. I personally prefer pen and paper when it's possible (i.e. all people
>>>> are at one place)
>>>> 4. The evaluation needs to be interpreted, it probably takes as much
>>>> time to make some sense out of a database dump as out of a stack of
>>>> paper.
>>>> 5. I can help with manually processing the pen and paper evaluation
>>>> (I'll be in Sydney the week after the conference, too).
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to hear your voice (especially from the workshop team).
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Hello Volker,
>>>
>>> I think it was me who mentioned this initially.  This is from years and
>>> years of being involved with workshops and:
>>> - jumping on a plane realizing that I by accident didn't return my
>>> workshop's eval forms
>>> - holding workshops where the eval forms were missing
>>> - trying to interpret hundreds of hand-written responses
>>>
>>> After last year Graeme and I discussed never doing this again - why not
>>> use an online form (or existing poll site) to allow attendees to input their
>>> feedback.
>>>
>>> That said, we don't have much time to create this now, so pen and paper is
>>> fine...no need to add to your stress....we can worry about this for next
>>> year.
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
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