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Moving from TC to UC

Hi Flanders,

You lost me a bit, but this is what it feels like you’re saying:

  1.  Recruit app developers to create a pool of folks that are interested in participating in user research on behalf of the community.
  2.  Conduct a series of interviews (n=~8) to help us understand what kinds of questions we should include as part of the app developer survey
  3.  Based the interviews, design and distribute a survey to app developers.

One quick point. Part of me is wondering whether we should do a series of ~16 individual interviews rather than a survey because it feels as though we’re really trying to get qualitative data.  The why’s rather than the what’s.  Or maybe…conduct eight interviews, distribute a survey and then conduct another eight post-hoc interviews to add context to the data collected from the survey.

Lemme know if this makes sense.  I’m OK with the scale of the research effort increasing because app developers are so important to us.

Cheers,


Piet

From: David F Flanders <dff.openstack at gmail.com<mailto:dff.openstack at gmail.com>>
Date: Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 11:53 AM
To: Pieter Kruithof <pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com<mailto:pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com>>
Cc: Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org<mailto:thierry at openstack.org>>, "openstack-tc at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-tc at lists.openstack.org>" <openstack-tc at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-tc at lists.openstack.org>>, Heidi Joy Tretheway <heidijoy at openstack.org<mailto:heidijoy at openstack.org>>, Edgar Magana <edgar.magana at workday.com<mailto:edgar.magana at workday.com>>
Subject: Re: Application Developer recruitment survey


My only one request would need that this effort build towards having questions generated for the main user survey as being coordinated by the AppEco-WG and overseen by Edgar on the UC.

As to, the iterations would look something which supports Piet's UX methods:

1.) Short survey to recruit appDev
2.) Interviews with half a dozen appDev to a.) Generate info re appDev UX, and b.) generate (thematic analysis of interviews) questions for future user survey questions to be shared/circulated with AppEco-wg for refinement.
3.) Agreement with UC on which questions will go into the annual main survey.

@Piet please do amend as you are fit re UX methodology.

Kind Regards,

Flanders

On 26 May 2016 7:16 AM, "Kruithof Jr, Pieter" <pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com<mailto:pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com>> wrote:
Committee,

OpenStack UX, User Committee and the foundation’s marketing team have been working on a short survey to recruit application developers.

The question for the techncial committee is whether we are able to use your name in the introduction for the survey:


"The OpenStack Foundation and Technical Committee are distributing a survey to help the open source community understand application developers and build more relevant products. The survey should take no more than ten minutes to complete.

As thanks for your time, three people will be randomly selected to win a $100 gift card.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/appdev-survey”


The goal of the recruitment survey is to generate a pool of application developers who are interested in participating in user research activities on behalf of the community.  The survey contains eight questions that can be used to screen potential participants for upcoming studies i.e. “We need to recruit eight participants with at least three years experience developing applications on a public cloud for a usability study.” App developers are difficult to recruit because they are less likely to attend community events or leverage the OpenStack IRC channels which is why we’re making a specific effort to recruit them.

The survey includes questions for the following areas:

* Company Type (Academic, ISV, etc)
* Company size
* Location of respondent
* Years developing apps
* App development languages
* Public clouds used by respondent (if at all)
* Private clouds used by respondent (if at all)
* Whether they participate in the community

We are trying to keep the survey as short as possible because we’re trying to recruit as many application developers as possible.  As Flanders noted, it’s challenging to have folks complete a survey at a conference or summit if they need to stand there for more than a couple of minutes.

The data collected from the survey will be managed by the foundation and email addresses for the respondents will not be shared with the community.

Let me know your thoughts.  In the meantime, we can always swap-out "OpenStack Foundation and Technical Committee” with “OpenStack UX project”.

Thanks,



Piet


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