[User-committee] [app] application developer research needs

David F Flanders flanders at openstack.org
Fri May 27 21:52:03 UTC 2016


+1 re clear objective for the respondent that this data will have an affect.
On 26 May 2016 9:31 AM, "Anne Gentle" <annegentle at justwriteclick.com> wrote:

> Thanks Pieter --
> I've added a lot of questions to the etherpad. I hope that collaborative
> editing was your intent. :)
>
> I've taken a few of these style of developer surveys since attending
> Google I/O last year and also signing up to play with some IoT-type
> platforms, so I incorporated some of my learnings from those surveys.
>
> Based on what I've seen, I'd highly encourage a three-to-four page survey
> with about five questions per page.
>
> Also, connection to other app devs or travel and feature-promoting
> enticements could be just as valuable as "prizes" as those we want to reach
> are often highly-compensated earners. Devs will answer surveys if they
> think it'll change the platform, but might not bite for other reasons.
> Let's ensure the questions appear actionable.
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Kruithof Jr, Pieter <
> pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> We’re going down the path of conducting a user study to collect deeper
>> information on application developers.  This study would be in addition to
>> the data collected from the foundation’s semi annual survey.
>>
>> At this point, we’re going down the path of identifying questions that
>> would provide a deeper understanding of your users to help drive product
>> direction.  If there is any specific data you would like to collect from
>> application developers, please add them to the study etherpad:
>>
>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-osux-appsurvey
>>
>> Also, we haven’t landed on a research methodology such as usability
>> testing, interviews, etc.  It just depends on the data we need from users.
>> Lemme know if this makes sense.
>>
>> BTW, should I be sending this to the dev distribution list?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Piet
>>
>> --
>> Piet Kruithof
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>> PTL, OpenStack UX Project
>>
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