"Winter Survey" results

[Angus Gratton]

I closed down the survey just now. We had 42 people click the link and
24 fill in the survey.

Results (analyticified by Google)
https://docs.google.com/a/opentechschool.org/forms/d/14Ux4sviMhsUOxfM5PUsVU7fFM-A2stZUwa0DZ-aj04w/viewanalytics#start=publishanalytics

Raw responses:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AtkLntSqPa4mdEM4NVg5dHJhODhKeUUzV3hrRmpha2c&single=true&gid=1&output=html

(NB: I checked over these before publishing them to make sure there
was nothing personally identifiable in them, but if I missed something
please sing out!)

Some of my observations/thoughts:

* Generally really positive, people seemed keen and said nice things
about us, 79% "almost certainly" will come in the next six months.

* Disappointed with only 24 responses given 217 in our Meetup
group. Was hoping for about 50. Maybe I should have been more
aggressive about promoting it, or asked less questions. Any other
suggestions for next time welcome.

* 5/24 didn't select anything from the "do you already have some
experience with any of these technologies?" list. Which I
think is a great sign we're reaching people who are not otherwise in
the tech world.

* 13/24 didn't say they'd followed up on any of the workshop material
in their own time. Maybe this is a good reason to try some regular
learner's hangout events, or perhaps give out pointers to
courses/material they can continue on with in their own time?

* Most popular interest for future workshops seemed to be for topics
we've already run (selection bias at play), mobile technologies
(which is admittedly pretty broad), and HTML/CSS. Although
everything was pretty popular, and that's just from a small sample
of already-engaged people, I think almost any workshop we run has
the potential to be popular.

* Other write-in workshop requests under Other: "R", "Learning new
languages for experienced progammers ie Java if you already know
C++, etc", "Other .js ie angular.js, node.js", "Electronics".
No common trend there.

* Some good stuff in the suggestions field that I won't duplicate here.

If you have any other conclusions or possibilities to share, please do!

- Angus

[Angus Gratton]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 06:30:07PM +1000, Angus Gratton wrote:
> * 13/24 didn't say they'd followed up on any of the workshop material
> in their own time. Maybe this is a good reason to try some regular
> learner's hangout events, or perhaps give out pointers to
> courses/material they can continue on with in their own time?

Drawing conclusions from data by handwaving: Bad practice. Who knew?

On second glance the bulk of those 13 people hadn't attended any
workshops yet. So that probably explains why they hadn't followed
up. Looks like there were still quite a few (5/10 is my vague count)
that had been to a workshop but hadn't followed up anything yet.

- Angus