[Qgis-psc] Closing the poll?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi René

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:27 AM, René-Luc Dhont <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> 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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