On Friday 09 July 2010 12:19:42 Alan Chandler wrote: > On 09/07/10 03:32, Iffat Jabeen wrote: > > Dear users of Gnu/Linux, [snip] > > Please share your experiences via the following link: > > http://survey.education.txstate.edu/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=LPP > > > > Your assistance in distributing the survey link to LUGs and Gnu/Linux > > oriented forums is greatly appreciated. > > > > Thank you for your time, > > > > Don Davis and Iffat Jabeen > > I did the survey +1 > > I see three problems with it +1 > > 1) Outside the US, I don't understand your school system - so > referencing what I assumed where school grades meant I had to guess what > you meant.
I understood it. I did grade six when I was ten. But it does not really equate to our system in a meaningful way, so I just did my best. I found it hard to remember in the questions that kindergarten in the American system != nursery in ours, and the children referenced were older than 3. When I was young nursery schools here were often called kindergartens. > 2) You don't provide ANY guidance as to the scope of what you mean by > GNU/Linux - so I was somewhat thrown by the question in the middle about > helping projects outside of GNU/Linux. In particular, I had assumed a > broad scope - but then didn't know what to think when you get into > projects that are cross boundary (for instance Javascript Libraries or > Java). I found this with many of the questions. In particular, as is the case with most multiple choice questionnaires/exams, the answers were only available where you had thought of them as possible, and in quite a few cases I had considerable difficulty deciding what on earth to put. > 3) I got confused about your use of the term "package". What about > applications that are not packaged - I have chat, airhockey and football > match picking competition applications that are just that - applications > unpackaged. It was often hard to envisage what was meant - and "other, please specify" would have been useful. Also, you have asked us to fill it in before and did not explain why a second try was needed. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007091433.28769.lisi.re...@gmail.com
