[ruby-talk:7212] New User Survey: we need your opinions

Morning, folks. (at least it is for me...)

Conrad and I have been thinking about ways of improving the experience 
of new Ruby users. One of the things we'd need to know before we can
do that is just who a new Ruby user is, and what problems they are
having.

So, we've put together a little script that will monitor this list/
newsgroup and send off an e-mail to someone the first time they
post. The body of the e-mail is below.

One of the URLs listed points to a survey page. We're hoping to use
the information to discover areas where we should concentrate our
efforts.

So, our questions to you all:

1. Do you find this appropriate?

2. Any comments on the e-mail?

3. Any comments on the survey.


Thanks


Dave

======================== greeting e-mail ==================================

Welcome to Ruby-Talk.

You recently posted a message to the ruby-talk mailing list (or to the
comp.lang.ruby newsgroup). We thought it might be helpful to give you
a set of Ruby links.


Ruby home page:    http://www.ruby-lang.org
Ruby FAQ:          http://www.rubycentral.com/faq/index.html
Newsgroup FAQ:     http://www.rubycentral.com/faq/ruby_newsgroup_faq.txt

Source download:   http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/download.html

Windows binary:    http://www.rubycentral.com/downloads/ruby-install.html


Also, we're trying to get an idea of the people and projects using
Ruby. We'd really appreciate it if you could spend 60 seconds filling
in an anonymous online survey at: http://dev.rubycentral.com/survey.html

Thanks!