Hi William!

On Nov 23, 3:20 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Harald Schilly
[...]
> > 3. once i decide that the survey is over (only a few submission per
> > day) i can send you the entire data personally if you like - including
> > timestamps of each answer. then you can see how many responses where
> > in which time intervals ... you can also get the times when the calls
> > for answering the questionnaire on sage-devel, sage-support and sage-
> > edu happend by looking into the mailing list archives (sage-devel was
> > a bit earlier than the others)
>
> Actually, 3 makes me uncomfortable, since we didn't specifically say
> in the survey that we were making all survey material publicly
> available.   I might have been more guarded in my survey responses had
> I known that.  Moreover, having skimmed the responses, I think many
> respondents are identifiable by a combination of what they say and
> where they are from.    I think it would be better to have a strong
> privacy policy about how we use our "market research data" that we
> staunchly adhere to -- this will in the long run be better for our
> credibility.

+1. My understanding was that the responses will be treated with
confidentiality. I don't think that my answers would upset people, but
as I am the only Sage developer located in Ireland (according to the
devel map), it would be very easy to identify me. This would somehow
upset me.

Cheers,
Simon

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