Re: Joint user survey with EnterpriseDB?

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 03:55:32 Josh Berkus wrote:
> Yes, I'm thinking this survey low-key, just News and a link in place of
> community/survey at this time. That way we capture some of the increased
> website traffic, but save the real survey blitz for when we have a more
> complete survey we can use several times. This one is a one-off.
>
> Then when we get the full, complete community survey done we can blast
> it through the various e-mail channels and elsewhere. I do think
> getting it done by August 1 is ambitious though, especially if we're
> talking about a July 15 CommitFest.
>

Most people don't like marketing surveys, the type of people inclined to use
FLOSS software tend to like them even less than comercial customers. Sending
out two marketing surveys within ~ 1 month of each seems like the worst
choice of all; I surely hope we wouldn't do that.

BTW, I see downthread Simon has bailed on the idea of doing a community survey
for 8.4, so perhaps there's no cause for concern, but before we take any
action on either survey, I thought it was important that this point be
raised.

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