# Posts: Fedora Annual Contributor Survey

## Week of March 13th 2022

### Discussion post: Help wanted for this years Annual Contributor Survey

The Fedora Council ran the first ever Fedora Annual Contributor Survey June of 2021 and we're planning to run the second edition this summer. This is particularly exciting because after this year's survey results are in, we will have multiple sets of data to compare. @bookwar and myself have been the main coordinators for the survey, and we are looking for volunteers to help out with the second edition. We also want to make sure the survey is sustainable, and that we are not the only people who know how to run it. Towards that end, we have been working on documentation [0], including a playbook on how to run the survey [1].

Most of the tasks involved need to happen between April-August and we need all types of skillsets to pull it off:

- Authors
- Data analysts
- Designers
- Marketing/promotion
- Project management
- Web devs

If you're interested in being a part of this years Annual Contributor Survey, we'd love to have you! Drop a comment with your area of interest and preferred contact method.

Cheers!

[0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/procedures/survey/overview/
[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/procedures/survey/how-to/

## Week of November 7th 2021

### Fedora Contributor Annual Survey Results Available

Over the summer of 2021, the Fedora Council held [the first annual Contributor Survey](https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/help-make-fedora-awesome-by-taking-the-first-annual-contributor-survey/), with success. The survey received 800 complete responses, which exceeded the set goal of 500. The data has been processed and is available for download here.

Coordination of the survey was a wonderful community effort. Fedora Council member Aleksandra Fedorova proposed and lead the survey effort with support from Marie Nordin(FCAIC). Many teams across the Fedora Project were involved including: the Mindshare Committee, the Outreach Revamp Team, the Design Team, the Websites & Apps Team, and the Community Platform Engineering Team. Aleksandra and Marie presented a session at Nest with Fedora which goes further into the process and outcomes. Check out the recording here.

Over the last couple months the work of cleaning up the dataset has been underway. This has been a slow process as there are just a couple folks working on that regularly. An example of "cleaning" would be folks who chose "Other", filled in "idk", when the option "I don't know" existed. Those answers need to be integrated in order to have a more accurate dataset. Fill in answers are also being removed due to the fact that as anonymous as the data is, some people definitely gave themselves away, intentionally or not. As the data is processed, feedback from the survey is being noted to improve the survey for 2022.

The dataset should be explored by interested contributors who would like to help us reach a better understanding of the status of our community. Please share with us your analysis, graphs, wordclouds, or any general feedback on the Discussion thread generated by this CommBlog post.

### How to work with the data

Dataset is a table with 800 rows, a row per particpant.

Yes-or-no and single-choice questions are represented by columns. Multi-choice questions are represented by a column for each of the choices. Additional choices were added manually by using the data which participants provided in comments. Such columns are marked with asterisk.

For example, consider the multi-choice question "Which social networks do you regularly use?". In the survey you could choose the option `Twitter`. And in the field *Other* you could add `also Reddit`.

In the resulting table you answers would look as follows:

Mastodon | Twitter  | (*)Reddit
---------|----------|------------
No       | Yes      | Yes