Calling all humans! (from Nina)

[Andrew David Wong]

[The following message is from Nina Eleanor Alter, our UX specialist.]

Greetings, Qubes community! We are running our first ever survey of
current, former, and future Qubes OS users. We invite you all to lend us
10-15min of your time, to participate.

https://survey.qubes-os.org/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=791682&lang=en

The Qubes OS team loves the conversations we have with our community
across forums, email lists, in support tickets, and at conferences. As
most of us understand, though, structured data is very different -- and
clear information to help us make product and development decisions in
the weeks and months to come, we feel is necessary to best serve our users.

This survey is also just the beginning of several weeks of user research
work that will consist of interviews, user testing, co-creation
workshop(s) with users guided by a ux specialist, and possibly more
surveys. At the end of this survey, we’ll collect contact information
should participating in that work be of interest to folks. We also look
forward to keeping folks updated in our user communities, with how all
of this work is progressing.

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This announcement is also available on the Qubes website:
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2020/10/09/calling-all-humans/

[Stumpy]

Thanks for this, I have filled it out and volunteered but really really
really wanted to iterate one big (for me) point, and that is include at
least some of the things listed in the documentation as an option in the
setup.

I am no coder and I am 99.999% sure its easier said than done but I see
quite a few posts (eg setting up VPNs, installing community templates,
etc) that would be made much easier, and hence less mailing list
repetition, if they were say included in say a "advance" option during
the install process, or perhaps an advance settings after setup... like
adding more "advance" options to the qubes manager? So the user could
select advance at the beginning and then say be asked "do you want to
install a sys-usb BUT have it manually enabled" or "do you want to set
up a VPN proxy" (which will then ask maybe using which templates, and
then after installation have a command line program that will prompt for
info to input [eg ovpn info], then generate the vm), or give the option
of enabling community member packages or templates and installing those
... like use "centos minimal for proxy VMs"), or selecting i3 or kde for
a manager, or do you want to enable MAC address randomization, or do you
want X or Y links/files to be opened up in dvm. The list goes on...

While, again, I am sure this is easier to suggest than to do I also
think that this would help those like myself who are "techno semi
competent" (which really means able to get ones self stuck trying to do
something) while also keeping it relatively simple (by having the above
be options that would only pop up if say "advanced settings" were
selected.

I dont mean to diss qubes, i have gotten so much more back than I have
donated but i really want to see it more broadly adopted and i think
things like the above could help!

Thanks again to the qubes devs and contributors!

[tetra...@danwin1210.me]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 11:42:27PM +0500, Stumpy wrote:
>Thanks for this, I have filled it out and volunteered but really really
>really wanted to iterate one big (for me) point, and that is include at
>least some of the things listed in the documentation as an option in
>the setup.

Side idea: include the documentation in the base install!

And then it's easier to point to the relevant bits of the documentation
post-install...

[Andrew David Wong]

This is already in the works. :)

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1019

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org