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[Events] Crafting an exit survey for campus events

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Thu Apr 12 02:05:41 UTC 2012


Hi OH-Events,

I'm working on an exit survey for people who attend(ed) 
campus.openhatch.org events. The idea is to find out how well we're doing 
at our goals of enabling students to participate better in open source, 
and to use that to guide us in the future.

We've run a few events so far, and I think that we'll send this at least 
to attendees of the UMD event in February. Morever, as we ramp up to run 
one at RPI, we can ask students to fill out the exit survey right as the 
event is coming to a close.

The idea is to get a sense of what parts of the workshop are good, what 
needs improvement, and if generally people like it. I've written the 
multiple-choice part with regard to the UMD event; I'd adjust those for 
future events. You can read details of the UMD event here: 
https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/UMD/Staff

Here's what I intend to ask. I'm happy to take feedback and suggestions; I 
aim to send it out at the end of Thu, April 12.

<survey>

What made attending this workshop sound appealing to you? (textarea)

What was your favorite part of the workshop? (multiple choice)

* Laptop setup
* History, ethics, and economics of free software, led by Asheesh
* How to find the community -- about IRC and projects, led by Jessica
* Command-line module, led by Maco Morgan
* Verifying, building, and modifying open source module, led by John 
Stumpo
* Project organization and git tutorial session, led by Jessica and 
Asheesh
* Sunday hands-on project session

Why did you select the choice you did? (textarea)

                   ---

* In the time since the workshop, have you participated in an open source 
project? Answer with one of the following:

  ( ) No increase in participation
  ( ) Increased participation as an observer (reading mailing list, or 
reading bug reports)
  ( ) Increased participation as a visible contributor (writing to the 
mailing list, or submitting bug reports)

* Do you plan on continuing to learn more and participate in open source 
projects since attending?
  ( ) Yes
  ( ) No

Do you have some open source contribution plans that you want to share 
with us, perhaps because you're proud of them, or because you want 
feedback/help with something?
  (textarea)

  * If a friend or colleague heard about an OpenHatch-led Open Source Comes 
to Campus workshop, how likely is it that you would recommend them to 
attend?

     Extremely likely to recommend against

     Moderately likely to recommend against

     Slightly likely to recommend against

     Neither likely to recommend nor recommend against

     Slightly likely to recommend

     Moderately likely to recommend

     Extremely likely to recommend

Why did you choose the answer you did? (textarea)

Do you have any other feedback for us? (textarea)

</survey>

-- Asheesh.


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