From: "Mic P." <micpringle@...>
Date: 2011-03-29T16:34:49+09:00
Subject: Re: A two-minute Ruby flavoured survey to help shape a new service.

Stu wrote in post #989698:
> well this is a forum so why not have the questions entered here since
> some of the answers may not be simple yes/no answers. Also since it's
> a public forum the answers might help others who have the same type of
> questions or marketing concerns. btw nice trek font.

Hey Stu,

I restricted the questions to simple yes/no or multiple choice because 
it's much easier to visualise the responses. Also, if I had opened up 
the questions to allow people to enter free text then I would have been 
collecting information that isn't relevant to this specific project.

For instance, I am only interested if rubygems.org is your primary 
source of gems. If I had allowed people to enter their own responses 
they would have inevitably mentioned other gem hosts which I would have 
only had to disregard.

Also, I think it's much easier to persuade people to fill out a survey 
if it's quick and requires minimal input; hence the limited number of 
questions and answer choices.

I didn't list the questions on the forum primarily because it would be 
much harder to collect the responses.

The responses so far have thrown up some interesting facts about Ruby 
developers behaviour & preferences so once the survey is complete (I'm 
aiming for around 250 responses and I'm about 60% the way there) then I 
probably will publish the results somewhere in the hope others may find 
them useful =)

-Mic

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