Events FAD -- comments on our status

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:47:01PM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Paul Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> * Are there any survey todos?  If so, what are they, where are they
> >> captured, and who owns them?
> 
> Yes, I'd be interested in hearing this as well; I got an email from
> Yaakov, Mel cc'd, summarizing that they'd like to do a document
> highlighting some of the survey results, a "course of action" based on
> feedback, and survey questions for the next FUDCons.  I just shot a
> mail back saying to let me know a time tomorrow (unless they've
> already done it) and I can show up.  If there are any other todos,
> well, ditto what Max said. :)
> 
> >
> > The LimeSurvey app is not yet packaged. I just got a very unpromising
> > report from David Nalley and Jon Stanley about it -- there are bundled
> > libraries, but worse, the LimeSurvey devs have apparently altered
> > (forked?) some of those libraries by changing them. Maybe to fix
> > problems, and maybe to hack around something. So to get that fixed,
> > one strategy would be for Fedora to take the position of "ombudsman"
> > between LimeSurvey devs and the providers of those libs to get them
> > fixed for a future LS release.  It's not a short-term task.
> >
> 
> I'm going to assume that "not a short-term task" also means "Robyn
> should be figuring out an alternate plan for survey-doing before
> Marketing FAD" ?

I think that would be a good pro-active move, if you're willing and
interested in doing that.  At the same time, we should document a more
thorough status for the Marketing team, explaining the problem, the
possible solutions, how long those solutions might take, and the
possibility of success.

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