[Promotion] Get things rolling?

[Mr Bulldog]

what i was saying was just an example, however we should all think about
drafting a survey we can give out that will be useful and practical to do.
However the reason i suggested non open answers is that people around my
area hate surveys and filling them in. If i went on the street and did them
they would ignore me. However that might be in different areas. But i
suppose they can give shorter answers. So if we all work together and draft
a first issue of a survey we can look at it and improve it.

On 29/01/06, John Williams <johnfrombluff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 12:39 +0100, Mr Bulldog wrote:
>
> > What do you want from you Computing Environment? Tick any Two
> >
> > X Easy and Fully Configurable Environment
> > X Performance and not a Memory Hog
> > X Regular Updates, Security Fixes on the fly (Safe Environment)
> > X Simply Layed out to get the Job Done
>
> Good first try, but I would like to suggest an improvement:
>
> "What do you want from your interaction with computers that you are not
> currently getting?  Write as much or as little as you like, but try to
> be specific and unambiguous.  Tell us what you like about your current
> experience with computers, what you don't like, and what you want but do
> not currently receive."
>
> This wording could be improved, but I think you get the idea.
>
> Note that this is a "free response" question.  Providing a limited list
> of responses and a limited way of responding is, you guessed it,
> limiting.  You get, in a very real sense, the answers you expect.  There
> is no possibility for you to get new information.  You should only use
> such a format when you pretty much know what the answers are, and you
> only want to make your estimates of proportions more precise.
>
> I suggest that, as open/free desktop developers (and marketers), we have
> next-to-no clue about what computers users (in general) really want.  I
> know that some people who will read this will think that they know what
> users want.  That's fine, but I am interested in facts, not opinions.  I
> am sorry if that sounds inflammatory, but that is the scientist in me
> speaking.
>
> The next problem, of course, is finding a way to pose the question to
> the people that matter, i.e. the sampling plan.  I have a few ideas
> about this but am not sure that any of them are any good.  Has anyone
> else been thinking about this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
>
>
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