[Qgis-psc] Closing the poll?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


> On 26 Oct 2015, at 17:35, Andreas Neumann <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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