KG01 - see comments inline. 

On Mar 18, 2013, at 1:59 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:10 PM, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2013/3/17 Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com>
>> 
>>> In light of our recent start on Strategic Planning, is it worthwhile to
>>> investigate some sort of survey mechanism?  

KG01 - Graham and I set up a LimeSurvey account, which he hosts. I am the tool 
admin. 


>>> I know we've used Google
>>> Moderator, and I see there were mixed opinions on that.

KG01 - yes, this more a discussion tool

>>> We really need to
>>> get a better feel of WHAT our end users are doing with AOO I think, before
>>> we can get into any indepth product planning.

KG01 - yes, this was our goal when we launched the survey effort last year. 
Actually, the survey process is documented in the AOO UX wiki. We developed the 
baseline demographic questions which accompany topic specific survey topics. 

>>> 
>>> See related thread on using BZ:
>>> 
>>> http://markmail.org/message/5a4j74e4oths55rg
>>> 
>>> Ideally, we should attempt to use some mechanism that doesn't explicitly
>>> require an account setup.
>>> 
>>> I started thinking about this a few days ago and saw that there is a MWiki
>>> extension called "Survey". Maybe we could use this.
>>> 
>>> Coupled with that, is there some way to setup an automatic "login" for such
>>> a page display,  but coupled with CAPTCHA for survey submission maybe?
>>> 
>> 
>> +1 for a survey tool. I remember "LimeSurvey"(1) being discussed on this
>> list several month ago, but I don't remember the output of that discussion.
>> 
>> (1) http://www.limesurvey.org/
>> 
> 
> Right.  Google Moderator is more a brainstorming or "ideation" tool.
> It is not really a survey tool.  Something like LimeSurvey is much
> better for surveys.
> 
> We have a few options there:
> 
> 1) See if we can get it hosted here at Apache, on a VM/BSD jail.
> 
KG01 -this approach is more effort, but highly scalable as it supports the 
periodic succession of hosting and research volunteers. +1


> 2) Have a volunteer host it on their own survey.  If we only do
> anonymous surveys and don't collect personally identifying information
> I think this would be low-risk.

Kg01 -Currently doing this, just need more resources to deploy surveys and take 
action. 
> 
> 3) With either of the above options we could assign it a subdomain
> like surveys.openoffice.org
> 
> At one point Graham was looking into #2, but that was a while ago.

KG01 - Graham and Kevin and Graham. See notes above. 

> 
> -Rob
> 
>> Regards
>> Ricardo
>> 
>> 
>>> 
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