Hi Daniel,
I just took a look at your case study survey document. Charles is right, the layout looks really nice and professional!
I have a few questions/suggestions:
1.) If I was the owner or spokesperson of a company, I would
be less interested in the license of the survey and the
license for the content provided by me, but I'd like to know
how the content would be used. For example, I might
want to know where the content might show up in the end
and in what context. BTW, why did you choose the Creative Commons license?
It's a bit embarrasing that I have to admit it here
and now, but I have to say that I did not pay too much
attention to the license in the past. Nevertheless, the
"You must give the original author credit." seems to
be strange to me for a living/working document like this!?2.) If we want to use the survey data for statistical
purposes too, we might want to use ranges and options
for the number of employees and the industries.
Based on my experience especially the industry data
will be all over the place if we don't provide a set
of option plus a comment field.3.) Since the Sun logo was included in the XML spec and the
default splash screen I'm a bit hesitant about making
the following comment, but I think we should be very
careful about where we include company logos
and URL's in order to avoid a proliferation of
logos and attributions. Just imagine Sun would put a logo on every little
document, screen and web page that Sun employees created.
That's why I could not resist modifying the subject
of this email. ;-) This is even more true for documents to be distributed
by a variety of people and companies and documents
where different people from different companies have
contributed. If I added three questions, would that
mean that the Sun logo got added, too? What if
Novell and Red Hat contributed another five
questions? Although there are some documents that contain a
Sun logo, living/working documents (AFAIK) don't
include a Sun logo, e.g.:
http://tools.openoffice.org/releases/q-concept.pdf But again, since the Sun logo appears in some locations
I might be the wrong person to comment on this!?4.) Question 6 might create some resistance among smaller
companies. "to establish your credibility with our
audience" does not sound to encouraging to SMB's who
might be one of our largest user groups.5.) I find the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, ...) approach
a bit weird in this context, but maybe that's just
my personal taste. Especially the "threats" questions
feels kind of strange. I would phrase it more in the
way of "What do you like/dislike?" or "What makes
your life easier or more difficult?"6.) In the questions 4 and 5 you suggest that companies
have improved their profitability and that they
reduced their risks. Although both things might have
been the goal and/or outcome of a migration, we
might rephrase the questions a bit. People might
have had other reasons/experiences (e.g. multi-platform
requirements, strategic reasons).7.) I would be cautious about including the link to DDGTS
under eLearning, because twenty other companies from
this list might want to get listed too, which
obviously is not feasible. At least it should say
"e.g. www.digitaldistribution.com".
Hope this helps!?
Cheers, Erwin
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Greetings everyone!
Whoo hoo! yay! Today I finished the survey form for the OOo case studies (compact edition). It is located in issue 18858. The file name is "case-study-survey.sxw". Take a look at it, it's quite gorgeous.
I'd like to offer a special thanks to Adam Piggott and Jean Weber for their continuous feedback over the last few days. I've been furiously working on this survey form. Adam and Jean reviewed several drafts. Their suggestions and comments allowed the survey form to progress quickly.
I'd also like to thank Linda Worthington for her help and advice with the graphic design of form. She showed me how to get high image quality. The end result is quite clever. I have two versions of the background, one at 100ppi and another at 300ppi. They are designed so they exactly fit inside an A4 sheet of paper. So I can use the 100ppi image during development. And when the time comes to print the case studies on a professional printer, I simply swap the background by the 300ppi version.
The survey itself uses OOo form controls to ensure an unambiguous, well-behaved, user interface. Very nice, very nice.
The contents of the survey itself were reviewed a lot by Jean and Andrew, to make sure that the questions were appropriate, relevant, and well-phrased. Thanks guys!
My next step is to use the information provided by Jean and Andew to make my first two case studies. Once I get the hang of it, I'll go for something closer to the real world. Andrew has kindly offered to give the survey form to some of his friendlier customers who might be eager to give back to the OOo community.
Cheers, Daniel.
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