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Tom,

We can have Melissa Meingast sign an NDA, review the data and conduct any appropriate analysis for the Persona Working Group.  No one else will see the data.

Piet




-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Fifield [mailto:tom at openstack.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 10:48 PM
To: Kruithof, Piet; openstack-personas at lists.openstack.org
Cc: Meingast, Melissa
Subject: Re: [Openstack-personas] User Committee

Indeed, anonymising as in removing names and email addresses is straightforward.

However, anonymising to remove the ability to identify a deployment or respondent based on the other responses is much more complex.

Regards,


Tom

On 09/04/14 12:37, Kruithof, Piet wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> How is confidentiality an issue if the data is anonymized?  We aren't interested in organization-specific or personal information, so it should be a matter of stripping those columns from the data set.
>
> Piet
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Fifield [mailto:tom at openstack.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 10:29 PM
> To: openstack-personas at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-personas] User Committee
>
> Hi Piet,
>
> The current "Foundation User Committee leaders" are Tim Bell, Ryan Lane and JC Martin, all of whom were CCd in the off-list discussion we had prior to your posting here.
>
> As explained in those series of emails, we treat the data of the survey in utmost confidentiality, limiting wholesale access to raw data as defined in the below quotation you have provided.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tom
>
> On 09/04/14 12:19, Kruithof, Piet wrote:
>> Is there anyone on the Persona Working Group who is also a Leader 
>> with the OpenStack User Committee?  Or is there someone within your 
>> organization that is a Leader with the OpenStack User Committee?
>>
>> I'm trying to get access to the raw data from the user survey to see 
>> if there is anything there would be useful to the persona effort.
>>
>> According to the website:
>>
>> https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/faq
>>
>> "We will aggregate data across our user community to measure trends 
>> such as regional adoption, deployment size, and use cases, as well as 
>> identify the most popular deployment models, technologies and user 
>> requirements. We will not share organization-specific or personal 
>> information with outside parties unless you clearly indicate you are 
>> willing to publish your organization's name and logo as an OpenStack 
>> user. Only OpenStack Foundation Staff and the Foundation User 
>> Committee leaders (who have signed a confidentiality agreement with 
>> the
>> Foundation) will have access to the raw data."
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Piet
>>
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>> *UX Design and Research Lead
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>>
>>
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