<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear User Committee, </span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The time has come to kick off the next User Survey! We’ve prepared a set of documents for your review to expedite our survey revisions process, so that we can focus our efforts this cycle on creating a dynamic, Stackalytics-style dashboard for individual data analysis. </span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m requesting you review and comment on the following documents:</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step 1: Review the User Survey itself. </span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go to this link: </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QloqA6E-Ohh0iyhTJRS40yN1l5rfG6n_f8OAuRDcNfM/edit#gid=355117781" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QloqA6E-Ohh0iyhTJRS40yN1l5rfG6n_f8OAuRDcNfM/edit#gid=355117781</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Select tab “1H2016 Survey Changes”</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Look at </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">column I </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(as in India) in particular, which notes any changes compared to the prior survey. You can add your comments here. I anticipate we’ll change the “current issues” question based on PTL feedback.</span></div></li></ul><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step 2: Which questions should be shown in our dashboard? </span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The dashboard will be able to crunch numbers based on specific variables. We’ve taken a preliminary stab at identifying these data sets. </span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go to the same tab, column G. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Questions planned for use on the dashboard are highlighted in yellow. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please add a comment if you think a quantitative answer should be available on our dashboard that isn’t already listed.</span></div></li></ul><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step 3: Review the User Survey timeline & deliverables.</span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go to the tab “1H2016 Timeline”</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re looking for </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">three points of feedback</span><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from the User Committee during this survey process: survey design, dashboard design, and report narrative. You’ll receive an email at each point (this is email #1 asking you to comment on survey design). </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px;" class="">Our hope is that we can identify a User Survey Working Group that includes more than just the User Committee to help with comment analysis and the smaller steps in our progress to producing the final report.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px;" class="">Please comment on any concerns about timeline or deliverables.</span></span></span></div></li></ul><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step 4: Review items for discussion at the next User Committee meeting. </span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I made a short list of </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dMGBn_obd661_ozfodhRICNWssyWrs7P5cupR6x2A_w/edit " class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">questions for the User Committee’s discussion & decision</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the next meeting, to provide direction on any final survey changes. The <u class="">key change for discussion is on the project matrix</u>. </span></div><br class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks very much for your review and comments!</span><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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