On Wednesday 30 June 2010 15:32:34 DenverD wrote:
Pavol Rusnak rightly noted this discussion of the results of the strategy survey should be in its own thread, therefore:
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
See here for the results of the survey: http://en.opensuse.org/UX/openSUSE_Survey_2010
Also the Strategy pages contain some insights from the survey: http://en.opensuse.org/Documents/Strategy/Process
interesting, especially the part about:
"One third does participate -- not bad at all. Forums are the most important piece -- is this a typical ENTRY PATH to start contributing? USER -> FORUMS/MLs/IRC -> BUG REPORTS -> Wiki or Packaging ??? If so, what do we do to encourage the transitions to the next step? Do we celebrate our contributors?"
how could it be possible to answer your "is this a typical entry path" since the forums are less than 2 years old and, from what i've seen in this ML, many (most?) here consider the forums as a pure waste of time/energy and therefore no sense in trying to find or 'grow' any contributors there..(just a bunch of useless non-contributing idiot "forum talkers")..
so, by and large there has been ZERO attention to spotting and developing/mentoring contributors from the helpless swamp named Forums.
We did the survey in February 2010, found this result and documented it. The strategy team did a lot of work and this is one result - and now it's time to react on it. There have been good interactions in the past and our intend with posting the strategy statements to the forums was exactly to acknowledge their importance and ask for feedback in that media as well. It was eye opening to see the the current state - and it's something that is noted and I expect to be addressed in due time.
the loss of two years in which to learn the answer of your very on target question comes due to a techo-bigoted attitude and refusal to seek answers amongst the low life..
will it go that way for another two years?
Btw. DenverD, it would help a lot if you would be a bit less controversial, I'm not continuing to discuss in this style, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126