On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 20, 8:04 am, Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> wrote: >> My initial comment is that making virtually every question mandatory >> is likely to turn people off or make them pick random answers to >> questions they don't want to answer. > > The last year I thought this too, but turns out most of the answers > were not random at all. Right now there are 126 submissions, and
Yep -- I was just looking at them and was pleased to see that there are so many responses, especially given the length of the survey. > really a lot of text to read about in various topics. I assume that if > you take the time to write some sentences in each text box, you do not > select random answers. > Of course, there are also fake submissions, but they are easy to spot > and of course nobody is forced to answer anything. > It's just a process > to take some sort of snapshot of the community, distill it, and feed > it back to the community - self reflection and so on ... How many people responded last year? William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
