FWN reader survey

[Pascal Calarco]

News, Marketing and Logistics Teams --

In order to gather some more feedback so that FWN on Fedora Insight can 
be as user-driven as possible, I've mocked up a Limesurvey to gather 
feedback for Fedora Weekly News and uploaded this to the wiki at:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:FWN-draft-survey-20101203.pdf

I would welcome your feedback between now and next Wednesday, when I 
would like to include the survey with the next issue of FWN.

The survey is currently ten questions.  The purpose of the survey is to 
gather:

1) background on the readership of FWN
2) which beats are most and least useful, and if readers miss any 
currently dormant beats
3) what new features readers would like to see with FWN

I am thinking we'll be safe to purchase 500 responses for US$35.  I 
think we would be wildly successful if we got that many responses.  We 
could also go with 250 responses, for $13 less, but the incremental cost 
seems minimal between 250 and 500 responses.

Any feedback is very welcome -- thanks!

   - pascal

[Mel Chua]

>  I would welcome your feedback between now and next Wednesday, when I
>  would like to include the survey with the next issue of FWN. 
The survey looks good to my untrained eyes - I like that you included 
the completion time and the names of everyone working on FWN... will 
probably need to do a lot of blogging/IRC-pinging/personal contacts to 
get folks to take the survey, but the survey itself is good stuff.

The two Fedora-Marketing-esque folks I can think of with formal survey 
design experience are Robyn and Diana (although I think some Red Hat 
Marketing folks also hang out here?) so if they have a moment, their 
feedback will probably be better than mine... forwarding to Diana since 
I don't know if she's on this list, and I know Robyn is (obviously) ;-)

>  I am thinking we'll be safe to purchase 500 responses for US$35. 
> I
>  think we would be wildly successful if we got that many responses.  We
>  could also go with 250 responses, for $13 less, but the incremental cost
>  seems minimal between 250 and 500 responses. 
As a Fedora community member, this seems extremely reasonable to me. As 
one of the people with a Red Hat credit card authorized to use it for 
Fedora budget, this also seems extremely reasonable to me.

Rock on.

--Mel

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:24:36AM -0500, Mel Chua wrote:
>  > I would welcome your feedback between now and next Wednesday,
> when I
>  > would like to include the survey with the next issue of FWN.
>  
>  The survey looks good to my untrained eyes - I like that you included 
>  the completion time and the names of everyone working on FWN... will 
>  probably need to do a lot of blogging/IRC-pinging/personal contacts to 
>  get folks to take the survey, but the survey itself is good stuff.
>  
>  The two Fedora-Marketing-esque folks I can think of with formal survey 
>  design experience are Robyn and Diana (although I think some Red Hat 
>  Marketing folks also hang out here?) so if they have a moment, their 
>  feedback will probably be better than mine... forwarding to Diana since 
>  I don't know if she's on this list, and I know Robyn is (obviously) ;-)
>  
>  > I am thinking we'll be safe to purchase 500 responses for US$35.  I
>  > think we would be wildly successful if we got that many responses.  We
>  > could also go with 250 responses, for $13 less, but the incremental cost
>  > seems minimal between 250 and 500 responses.
>  
>  As a Fedora community member, this seems extremely reasonable to me. As 
>  one of the people with a Red Hat credit card authorized to use it for 
>  Fedora budget, this also seems extremely reasonable to me.
>  
>  Rock on. 
If you want, Pascal, Jared or I can forward a survey link to the
internal Red Hat all-employees list where we forward each week's FWN.

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[Neville A. Cross]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Mel Chua <mel(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
> > I would welcome your feedback between now and next Wednesday,
> when I
> > would like to include the survey with the next issue of FWN.
>
>  The survey looks good to my untrained eyes - I like that you included
>  the completion time and the names of everyone working on FWN... will
>  probably need to do a lot of blogging/IRC-pinging/personal contacts to
>  get folks to take the survey, but the survey itself is good stuff.
>
>  The two Fedora-Marketing-esque folks I can think of with formal survey
>  design experience are Robyn and Diana (although I think some Red Hat
>  Marketing folks also hang out here?) so if they have a moment, their
>  feedback will probably be better than mine... forwarding to Diana since
>  I don't know if she's on this list, and I know Robyn is (obviously) ;-)
>  
I used to teach at the University, that will get any student a solid
A+ for coursework survey. Well depending on the analysis of the
responses. I think that we can have enough information from the
survey. We can later on work on some in depth analysis from the
numbers.

For instance... Let's use weight factor to value the opinion of users
about sections on how frequently they read the
FWN. The more often they read, the more valuable their opinion should be.

Or let's see which sections each group value the most... newcomer,
press people.... The same goes with channels... we can find out that
press people would like a rss (just an example), so when we do that we
let them know first.

My point is that we can crunch numbers nicely from the question laid
out. I think is a good work.


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[Pascal Calarco]

On 12/03/2010 11:24 AM, Mel Chua wrote:
> > I would welcome your feedback between now and next Wednesday,
> when I
> > would like to include the survey with the next issue of FWN.
>  The survey looks good to my untrained eyes - I like that you included
>  the completion time and the names of everyone working on FWN... will
>  probably need to do a lot of blogging/IRC-pinging/personal contacts to
>  get folks to take the survey, but the survey itself is good stuff.
>
>  The two Fedora-Marketing-esque folks I can think of with formal survey
>  design experience are Robyn and Diana (although I think some Red Hat
>  Marketing folks also hang out here?) so if they have a moment, their
>  feedback will probably be better than mine... forwarding to Diana since
>  I don't know if she's on this list, and I know Robyn is (obviously) ;-)
>
> > I am thinking we'll be safe to purchase 500 responses for US$35.  I
> > think we would be wildly successful if we got that many responses.  We
> > could also go with 250 responses, for $13 less, but the incremental cost
> > seems minimal between 250 and 500 responses.
>  As a Fedora community member, this seems extremely reasonable to me. As
>  one of the people with a Red Hat credit card authorized to use it for
>  Fedora budget, this also seems extremely reasonable to me.
>
>  Rock on.
>
>  --Mel 
Thanks for the feedback, Mel!  Diana, here's the URL for the draft of 
the survey:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:FWN-draft-survey-20101203.pdf

    - pascal

[Adam Batkin]

>  I would welcome your feedback between now and next Wednesday, when I
>  would like to include the survey with the next issue of FWN. 
I'd also welcome feedback on individual beats (personally just the 
Planet Fedora beat, but others may be interested in their own too). 
Things like: What would a better format be? Are there topics that are 
frequently passed over? Too much coverage of anything? Too many or too 
few links each week?

I guess it might be tough to ask for all of that feedback for each beat 
(too long), but maybe a single big (optional!) textbox per-beat, with 
all of the above questions, just in case someone has specific feedback.

Thanks,

-Adam Batkin