Hello! I want to join the marketing project and would like to introduce myself. I am from Pskov, Russia; I'm a marketing researcher and also I conduct classes in sociology in local institute. My professional interests are at the intersection of social sciences and IT.
I've started a pilot research aimed to find the image of office software suite in general and OpenOffice.org in particular. The subject of survey is the regular users without high level of the interest in IT. E.g. what does a user mean by words "I've used OpenOffice for a period of time, but then I've installed normal office suite". What is the "normality" here, etc. The biggest (and accessible by researchers) organization In Pskov region what uses OpenOffice is Regional Administration (RA). There are 800 workstations, third of them are with OOo. I met with the cio of RA Yuri Kolesnikov and he allowed to conduct the survey among RA employees. I plan 2 stages of the survey. The first one is aimed to get the general picture how OpenOffice is used in RA. The first stage is conducted using interviewing of experts. The first expert became Mr.Kolesnikov. 3 interviews are collected now and I have some interesting information from them. The second stage is planed as quantitative questionnaire survey of RA's employees. Is this project interesting for the community? Are there any similar surveys in other regions? How should I publish the current state of survey and the results? Should I do it on my site only or it'll be useful to create special page on ooo.org? Alexander Matrunich [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
