On 15/04/2009, at 10:12 AM, John Plocher wrote: > A poll implies we already know the list of problems and simply need > someone to rank them for us. A "suggestion box" is more open ended, > and will tend to expose problems that we might not have thought about. > In program management speak, one is a tool to narrow options, the > other, a tool to widen them. If we (the community, not just the OGB) > were together in person (like at one of the summits or at OSCON...), > we could fill a wall with brainstorming postits, group them by > affinity, and prioritize the groupings. Doing something similar > online is more difficult, as we are seeing.
I like that approach. We've done a 'Love/Hate' wall in a certain desktop community that I've been involved in over several years, and it's often a good indicator of what things may need to be fixed. While it works well for a technical scope, it could be useful for a social one too. Glynn
