Hi everyone!
We've been using LimeSurvey for a while to do the default Fedora wallpaper / background inspiration vote each release. LimeSurvey is overly complicated, has a confusing UI, and is generally not amazing, despite being open source.
I've been looking at some alternatives to make this whole thing easier, with the requirement that the tool be open source. We already have a Discourse (it is open source) deployment at
discussions.fedoraproject.org, so, I took a look at the Discourse polling feature and it seems like it will meet our requirements nicely:
- It has visually-based polling so we can put pictures next to each option if needed for the vote instead of making people click through elsewhere
- It lets us limit the vote to members of specific discourse groups
- It's pretty simple and seems less prone to error than limesurvey
So we are looking at potentially using it for the F37 vote.
Where you come in :
I know 99% of the folks who are in the designteam group in FAS and I believe the majority have not been active in years (I recognize many as past interns from various programs.) I contacted everyone I knew to still be active and most at this point have logging into discussions.fpo to get their account set up and have been added to the discourse group.
For the rest of the 81 - 25 folks not in the group.... I might do a mass email blast. Usually we email everyone each release and have them click on a "remove me" link if they don't want to be listed anymore. I think since we've done that for a couple years now, what we might want to do this time is have a "keep me" link and if they don't click it they get removed. To be honest, the penalty is quite low if we accidentally remove someone - it doesn't delete their FAS account or anything just their group membership, and that takes 5 seconds to reinstate if they missed the emails or whatever.
Thanks for reading :)
Le meas,
~m