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Hi Jay,

I don’t mind helping to conduct the research at the summit assuming that
my travel is approved. However, it would be cool to have some of the
vahana members help with the research to help build empathy with their
users.  

Another thought would be to run a focus group with operators in the
evening that includes pizza and beers. Focus groups have fallen out of
favor in the past few years, but they can be valuable if done correctly
with the right kind of participants.

However, I would like to hear Tom’s thoughts on whether it would be this
kind of activity would be appropriate.


Cheers,


Piet 




On 1/14/16, 2:31 PM, "Clark, Jay" <jason.t.clark at hpe.com> wrote:

>Thanks for the insight, Piet- this helps.
>
>As far as the project goals, I think we're fairly clear on those.
>However, the conclusions were arrived at by a handful of people who
>agree.  This is another reason why we'd like to support our anecdotal
>views with survey results that clearly present the data behind our
>beliefs.
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>We'll see what others have to say, but I like the option of leveraging
>the Operators Summit to conduct interviews with attendees. Perhaps Tom
>will chime in with recommendations on that idea.
>
>Regards,
>Jay Clark
>Sr. OpenStack Deployment Engineer
>E: jason.t.clark at hpe.com
>H: 919.341.4670
>M: 919.345.1127
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>From: Kruithof Jr, Pieter [pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 2:23 PM
>To: Clark, Jay; user-committee at lists.openstack.org
>Cc: Heidi Joy Tretheway
>Subject: Re: [User-committee] [vahana] Op Survey Assistance
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>Hi Jay,
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>Good to hear from you.
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>I think it makes sense to have a discussion around the project¹s goals
>before diving into a specific methodology.  There has been some discussion
>within the community around ³survey fatigue² because there are a number of
>efforts including the persona validation and bi-annual user survey.
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>One suggestion would be to leverage the Operator¹s Summit and conduct a
>series of informal interviews with attendees.  In that case, you probably
>chat with Tom Fifield to make sure it wouldn¹t be a distraction.
>
>Of course, this is one person's opinion and the folks with both the
>foundation and user committee will also respond with some ideas.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
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>Piet
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>On 1/14/16, 8:59 AM, "Clark, Jay" <jason.t.clark at hpe.com> wrote:
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>>Greetings,
>>
>>I'm Jay Clark, member of the openstack-vahana project. One of my
>>colleagues, Doug Hellmann, advised me to mail this list for guidance on
>>the creation of an operators survey.
>>
>>The openstack-vahana project is a newly started project. The goal is to
>>create iOS client libraries to support the development of native iOS apps
>>that seamlessly integrate with OpenStack, allowing operators and
>>administrators the ability to have an iOS companion app to manage/monitor
>>their OS-based environments.
>>
>>One of our action items is to define use cases around this idea, and the
>>survey suggestion has been made to the vahana team on a number of
>>occasions, which is why I'm here.  Is there anyone here who can point me
>>in the right direction to facilitate a survey like this?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Jay Clark
>>Sr. OpenStack Deployment Engineer
>>E: jason.t.clark at hpe.com<mailto:john.stafford at hp.com>
>>H: 919.341.4670
>>M: 919.345.1127
>>IRC (freenode): jasondotstar
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