[Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-22 Thread Tim McConnell
> How long have you been using Linux? > > And what about those of us who use GNOME, but don't use Linux...? :) > > Cheeri, > Calum. My bad should of been phrased "How long have you been using Unix/Linux?" My apologies to the power of the Sun ;) -- Tim McConnell

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-21 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Calum Benson wrote: > > On 19 Apr 2009, at 18:54, Tim McConnell wrote: > > And what about those of us who use GNOME, but don't use Linux...? : Use the other option to specify '0' -- A.K. ___ Usability mailing list

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-21 Thread Calum Benson
On 19 Apr 2009, at 18:54, Tim McConnell wrote: Hi Anton, I forgot one of the obvious questions as a suggestion. How long have you been using Linux? And what about those of us who use GNOME, but don't use Linux...? :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-19 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Vadim Peretokin wrote: > What about those you are on/off? Maybe you should add "in total". > Updated : http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cFE1dHJkUkhFakVoNlZJVEFKNXRJZFE6MA .. -- A.K. ___ Usability mailing

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2009-04-19 Thread Vadim Peretokin
What about those you are on/off? Maybe you should add "in total". ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

[Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-19 Thread Tim McConnell
Hi Anton, I forgot one of the obvious questions as a suggestion. How long have you been using Linux? () Less than one year () 1 to 2 years () 2 to 4 years () More than 4 years -- Tim McConnell ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http:/

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-19 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
On Sunday 19 April 2009 01:09:30 pm Anton Kerezov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Kirk Bridger wrote: > > 1 - if you're giving them a list of things and asking them to select one > > or more, it's usually a good idea to include an "Other - please specify" > > option, in case you didn't

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-19 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Kirk Bridger wrote: > Great idea! > Thank you! > > 1 - if you're giving them a list of things and asking them to select one or > more, it's usually a good idea to include an "Other - please specify" > option, in case you didn't think of everything. > I wanted

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-19 Thread Kirk Bridger
Great idea! Just a few general suggestions for these kinds of things: 1 - if you're giving them a list of things and asking them to select one or more, it's usually a good idea to include an "Other - please specify" option, in case you didn't think of everything. 2 - a final question asking

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-19 Thread Anton Kerezov
Here are the latest changes to the survey: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cFE1dHJkUkhFakVoNlZJVEFKNXRJZFE6MA .. I would like to ask the ppl taking it to wait until it is officially announced because as new questions come up I can't migrate their results because I can't vote inste

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-18 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Saturday 18 April 2009 1:21:14 pm Tim McConnell wrote: > > I think HS is often referred to as secondary school. Confusing > > enough, it's > > also called "college" in parts of Europe. I'm asking my Romanian > > roommate > > these questions :P What Americans call "college" Europeans call

[Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-18 Thread Tim McConnell
A.K., I get the feeling you are trying to discover the user's proficiency with the GNOME desktop or computers in general. Some suggestions I would have are: Change the question "What is you occupation?" to "What do you do with Linux?" () Linux Kernel Programming () Programming - Java, C++, Py

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-18 Thread Anton Kerezov
OK. btw any ideas why 'How may emails you are writing?' result is showing > like a date in the spreadsheet? If I choose 1-2 = 1/2/2009 I worked around this one. So if you have any other questions that want to be asked tell me today because tomorrow I'll be posting the survey online. -- A.K.

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-18 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Florian Ludwig wrote: > Q: Where do you use gnome? > [ ] At work > [ ] At home > OK. btw any ideas why 'How may emails you are writing?' result is showing like a date in the spreadsheet? If I choose 1-2 = 1/2/2009 -- A.K. __

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-18 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 10:10 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > On Friday 17 April 2009 05:05:46 pm Florian Ludwig wrote: > > Does the term "employed" include "self-employed"? (I dont > know) But > > anyway... does it matter if the user is employed? > > Yes it

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-18 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > Job status doesn't matter as much as what their occupation is (e.g. > Administrative Assistant vs. Software Engineer. Would need some help with all possible variants. > > On Friday 17 April 2009 05:05:46 pm Florian Ludwig wrote: > >

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys -English education status

2009-04-17 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 17 April 2009 9:06:59 pm Tim McConnell wrote: > > > > I can't possibly type all them, right? Also would need help with the > > > education level because I'm not very familiar with the English > > terms. > In the US the education levels are usually considered in this manner: > Non-High s

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 17 April 2009 5:05:46 pm Florian Ludwig wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 23:11 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > How do you switch between the windows? > There is some function builtin metacity, where you hover the window with > the mouse and it becomes active, maybe add this option - i dont

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 17 April 2009 5:05:46 pm Florian Ludwig wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 23:11 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > How often do you check your emails? * Relative Number of times per day > > > How many emails do you write per day? > > Maybe make the all "per week" instead of "per day" since th

[Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys -English education status

2009-04-17 Thread Tim McConnell
> > I can't possibly type all them, right? Also would need help with the > > education level because I'm not very familiar with the English > terms. In the US the education levels are usually considered in this manner: Non-High school graduate (didn't finish public school) High school Graduate (

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
What is the purpose/goal of this survey? To get general information about GNOME users or to find something specific out? If it is to get general information, there are a few things you should know. * Your audience is going to be inherently biased to people who know about the community and par

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 23:11 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > Here's the first draft: > http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cFE1dHJkUkhFakVoNlZJVEFKNXRJZFE6MA.. > What is your job status? Does the term "employed" include "self-employed"? (I dont know) But anyway... does it matter if the u

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
On Friday 17 April 2009 02:51:07 pm Florian Ludwig wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 10:22 -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > > Also should ask education, country, primary language, OS language, if > > they have a laptop/computer/both, etc. so you can get a profile of the > > type of user they might be.

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Florian Ludwig wrote: Here's the first draft: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cFE1dHJkUkhFakVoNlZJVEFKNXRJZFE6MA .. I would welcome any further question proposals as well as a way to handle the Contry/language questions. I can't possibly type all

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Ludwig
In general I think the majority of questions should be multiple choice questions or "insert number" and not free-text. Its much easier to evaluate later on and you get some numbers. But provide some way to comment at the end of the survey, its frustrating if you have to choose an answer that does

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > surveygizmo.com allows up to 250 respondents for free. And only people > that > finish the entire survey count toward the 250, so you don't lose out on > those > that quit halfway through. > Thank you all. I'll prepare a beta of the

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 17 April 2009 11:33:02 am Anton Kerezov wrote: > I get it. But where I can build that survey? I don't know a web site or smth > I can use to achieve this goal. You all tell me to make all the questions > and put them together but nobody tells me how to do it so I have no other > choise b

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Vadim Peretokin
I'd second the survey via Google Docs idea. It works out nice. ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 18:33 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > I get it. But where I can build that survey? I don't know a web site > or smth I can use to achieve this goal. You all tell me to make all > the questions and put them together but nobody tells me how to do it > so I have no other choise

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > Also should ask education, country, primary language, OS language, if they > have a laptop/computer/both, etc. so you can get a profile of the type of > user > they might be. > Finding about this would be helpful but right now I'm trying

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Guillaume Ardaud
I whole-heartedly agree with Celeste. As mentionned before, you should definitely have a full survey and not proceed questions by question; the resulting stats will have very little value in the second case. For example, consider the two questions "How old are you" and "Do you feel you can work fa

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
My .02... On Friday 17 April 2009 09:38:41 am Anton Kerezov wrote: > Well I haven't thought of them all just yet but here's a sample list: > > - How old are you? (determines the majority of users Gnome is used by) Also should ask education, country, primary language, OS language, if they have

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, dino wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 13:38 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > > > For the fist survey you may vote here: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7088189#post7088189 > > I think its a good idea in general, but I think its a better approach to > wri

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread dino
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 13:38 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > For the fist survey you may vote here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7088189#post7088189 I think its a good idea in general, but I think its a better approach to write a "complete" survey with several questions and ask them

[Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
I'm starting to make sociological research over UbuntuForums in order to get more data what is the userbase and what it requires as I have mentioned in this document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14221984/Shell-Brainstorm For the fist survey you may vote here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p