[development] Drupal administration survey draft based on 10
interviews
Kieran Lal
kieran at civicspacelabs.org
Wed Aug 9 19:25:09 UTC 2006
>> Yes it matters a lot. If you want to build an online community or
>> social change website you are going to end up being recommended to
>> use Drupal. Drupal's community knowledge extends beyond just CMS
>> development but is now a expert community in online community
>> building and social change websites. This is important to know
>> because this growing user base has certain expectations and
>> goals. This was clear from the interviews, maybe 4+/10 people
>> fell into this category. We need to get a sense of how many
>> Drupal sites are falling into this domain.
>
> So...then add that as another category. You may be an accidental
> technologist building things for a death metal band. I suspect a
> lot of the folks you interact with fall into the social change
> category...and I agree it is important to capture.
Most of the folks were random people plucked out of #drupal-support
or acquaintances of people in #drupal. I explicitly tried to not
sample the CivicSpace folks and these results still came through.
>
> However, another huge category is "HTML Website developer adopting
> a CMS platform" or "Process consultant learning to us collaborative
> tools" (the former is more technical in terms of web stuff, the
> latter is less technical).
Ok. Let me think about how to introduce that into the self
description responses. I don't want to force stuff into the survey,
that didn't come out in the interviews. But then this is more art
than science and I do want public review to make sure the results
make sense.
Thanks for the feedback.
Kieran
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