Events FAD -- comments on our status

[Robyn Bergeron]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'm definitely interested in doing that; I'll prep a schedule / plan
and we can discuss at mktg-meeting Tuesday.

In the meantime, if someone wants to take up the documentation of
problem / solution timeline task, I would totally appreciate that. :)

-robyn

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