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# Analysis: Fedora Community Survey 2021

## Improvements for 2022

Q: What demographic(s) are you connected with locally?
- Some feedback that this question doesn't make sense (2/800 responses)
- Add a "None" choice 
- Add a "Government" choice

Q: What kind of participation have you had in the Fedora’s outreach in the past/currently?
- Add a "none" choice
- Add a "Online Promotion" choice
- Add a "Casual/Personal Networks" choice

Q: Who would you first try to contact if you wanted to run a Fedora event/needed swag?
- Add a "I don't know" choice
- Add a "IRC" choice
- Add a "Online Forum(Ask, Discussion)" choice
- Add a "Mailing List" choice

Q: Who would you first try to contact if you wanted to run a Fedora event/needed swag?
- Added options from the Other responses, should we cut back some to "other"?
    - FCAIC
    - Fedora Council
    - Local User Group
    - Mindshare Committee
    - Regional Fedora Ambassador group
    - IRC/Element/Telegram
    - Online Forum(Ask, Discussion)
    - Fedora Documentation
    - I don't know
    - Not applicable
    - Other

Q: Are you aware that Fedora provides concrete resources to further Fedora’s vision and initiatives? (event sponsorships, travel assistance, swag for local projects/events)
- Update options    
   - Yes, and I have taken advantage of those resources
   - Yes, but I have no need to request them
   - Yes, but the process did not go well for me
   - Yes, but I am not sure how to request resources
   - No, I was previously unaware
   - Other

Q: What is your preferred office suite?
- Update the options for next year

Q; What programming languages do you use? 
- Reorganize answers for this question
- Make some "grouped questions" for example javascript and its variants


## Nest Presentation Outline

### Introduction Slide/Title Slide

### Quick Process Overview

### Role Breakdown

### Communication Channels 

#### Potentials to highlight
- Role breakdown (Question 1)
- Communication channels
    - Graph: one axis is social network, one axis is number of people. Distribution per role. Role shown as color

- How to do it better next year
    - Need to use more accessible language 
        - For example we received "testing" as a write-in role, and we had Quality Assurance as an option for the question.
        - 

## General Notes

### Questions we might want to answer

#### Generic
- How representative the survey is?
    - Compare the

*Information we want to gather with the survey questions*

#### Community Focused (8minutes)
- What languages do our contributors know? 

- Do they feel that Fedora Community is accessible to them in a language they understand? Or is it a barrier to have to use English?

- Do you feel like you are included as a member of the Fedora Community? (In the context of other answers, this is interesting. What do people who feel like they “belong” do in Fedora? What do people who feel excluded do or not do in Fedora?)

- How do people feel about accessibility in general, but also mindshare specifically
*Accessibility is 3.6/5 for most parts in Fedora Project. Contributors find it easier than users to look for wikis, issues, people and resources. Searchability of content seem to be issue for most users. In terms of event, swags and budget, Local/Regional Fedora Ambassador mentors are the most approachable followed by Local User Groups and Council. 
    
- Satisfaction rating for Mindshare
*Mindshare members are more likely to be contacted as part of local Fedora Project contacts for swags than Mindshare Committee as a whole. The tilt in awareness is increasing naturally over time and it is hoped to bring about a higher degree of change as we move forward. 

- Knowledge of CoC, aware of community standards of behavior
*Contributor feel safe with CoC enforced on all communication channels. People feel as though the amount of channels makes it difficult to enforce the CoC effectively over them all. But overall sentiment looks stable in terms of kowledge, approchability and expression of views

- How comfortable are people to speak up in public, or private about issues in the community
- Do people feel recognized/appreciated
*Contributors Feels recognized and appreciated for the efforts and time they spend. 4.32/5 expresses the sentiment beind how likely would you like to recommend your friends to contribute to Fedora Project*

- Do people feel empowered to propose ideas or work on things
- awareness about the revamp, and also how the new commops structure is working/improving

#### Coding Focused (8minutes)
- Text Editors: vim or emacs? And where is nano?
    - Graph/Category + Role color-coded
- Programming Languages:
    - Overall graph
    - Graph per role
- Modularity
    - Usage
    - Usage per Edition
- Flatpack
    - Flatpacks usage per edition
- Silverblue
- What do you use for Gaming
    - Raw data

## Survey
#### About you


* What are your current role(s) in Fedora Project? 


* What do you use Fedora for? [M]


* On a scale of 1-5 how familiar are you with Linux-based operating systems? [S]


* Which social networks do you regularly use? [M]

* Which messaging services do you regularly use? [M]
 

* Which Fedora communication channels do you follow? [M]


* How comfortable do you feel speaking up about your ideas/opinions/theories or asking questions in Fedora spaces?(chat platforms, pagure, discussion)

* Is English your first language? If not, do you find language as a barrier for participation in Fedora?
 

#### Generic

* Which Fedora Editions do you use? [M]
  
* Which architectures do you use? [M]
 
 
* Do you use Fedora Modules? [S]
    
* Would you recommend Fedora Modules? Yes or no, and why?


* Have you tried to use Fedora Silverblue? [S]

* Do you develop on single board computers for Fedora? If yes, which ones?


#### Desktop 

Opening question: Do you use Fedora as desktop. If not we skip the section.

* What is your preferred desktop environment? [S]
 

* Do you use Flatpaks? [S]
  

* Would you recommend Flatpaks? Yes or no, and why?


* What is your preferred office suite? [S]
  

* What is your preferred browser? [S]
  

* What is your preferred e-mail client? [S]
  

* What is your preferred media player? [S]


* What is your preferred image viewer? [S]


* What is your preferred drawing tool? [S]
 
* How do you play Games? [M]
   
* How satisfied you are with Fedora on Desktop experience?
 

#### Code

Opening question: do you use Fedora to write code?

* What programming languages do you use? [M]


* What version control systems are you working with? [M]

* What forge system are you interacting with? [M]


* Which text editor do you use (for random small edits)? [S]

* Which is your primary development environment? [M]

* Which container tools do you use?

* How satisfied you are with Fedora as a developer workstation?


#### Community Outreach


* What demographic(s) are you connected with locally?
 
* What kind of participation have you had in the Fedora's outreach in the past/currently?

* How familiar are you on how Fedora is organized as a project?

* How accessible do you find Fedora resources to be? (such as docs, wiki pages, pagure repo, IRC/chatroom)
   
* Who would you first try to contact if you wanted to run a Fedora event/needed swag?


* Are you aware that Fedora provides concrete resources to further Fedora's vision and initiatives? (event sponsorships, travel assistance, swag for local projects/events)


* How satisfied are you with community outreach within and outside of the Fedora Project?
 

#### Close-up

* How satisfied are you with the Fedora Project overall?
 

* How likely are you to recommend contributing to Fedora to a friend?
  

* Is there anything else you would like to share with the Fedora Project?
  