🚧 Contributor survey | Please help get the word out


Catherine Paganini <catherine@...>
 

Dear TOC members, 

As mentioned during today's meeting, we need your help to get more respondents for the CNCF & TAG CS contributor survey. The goal is to better understand friction points and help projects retain/attract contributors. We can all agree that a better understanding would greatly benefit the ecosystem.

How you can help:
  • Mention it in your next meetings and/or talks
  • Share on social media (personal account and company, if appropriate)
  • Include in a company newsletter (if appropriate)
  • Have additional ideas? Please share with the team
The CNCF plans to announce the results at KubeCon, so we'd need to move fast.

Thank you for your support!

The TAG Contributor Strategy Team


Catherine Paganini

Head of Marketing and Community

Buoyant, creators of Linkerd

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Emily Fox
 

Catherine, would you send the TOC a brief write up so that when we tweet or share on our networks we've got the correct language/context to share with folks? Thanks in advance!

~Emily Fox
@TheMoxieFox


Josh Berkus
 

On 10/4/22 10:32, Emily Fox wrote:
Catherine, would you send the TOC a brief write up so that when we tweet or share on our networks we've got the correct language/context to share with folks? Thanks in advance!
Tweet/LinkedIn
For tweets please use @CloudNativeFdn handle, for LinkedIn, tag the CNCF*

Open source contributors, CNCF projects want to hear about your contributor experience. Please take this survey, and let us know how we can improve 👇
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CNCF-Contributor-Survey-2022


Write-up:
If you are an open source contributor, please participate in this survey by the CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy. The CNCF teamed up with project maintainers to better understand your friction points and how they can improve. Projects really want to provide the best possible contributor experience, but it's not always easy to understand what it feels like to be on the other side. Help them help you by providing candid feedback — thank you!

*To tag a person or organization in LinkedIn, type @ and the name. The CNCF should pop up.


(replying for Catherine whose list subscription is being funny right now)

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-- Josh Berkus
Kubernetes Community Architect
OSPO, OCTO


Richard Hartmann
 

Dear all,

it will be too late for this time, but for future runs, I'd like to make two comments/observations//suggestions:

Question 3 overloads two orthogonal questions
* "How long have you been (not) around", and
* "What is your motivation, payment or studies?", while leaving out "personal/hobby/I believe in it"
into one.

Question 5 skews heavily towards the positive:
5. Overall, how would you describe your experience contributing to CNCF projects in the past year?
Excellent
Great
Good
Fair
Needs improvement


Rest looks really nice. Thanks for doing this work!


Best,
Richard 


Josh Berkus
 

On 10/5/22 01:33, Richard Hartmann wrote:
Question 3 overloads two orthogonal questions
* "How long have you been (not) around", and
* "What is your motivation, payment or studies?", while leaving out "personal/hobby/I believe in it"
into one.
We put a lot of work into getting the survey down to 20 questions. That involved combining some questions where we felt it was safe. Leaving out Personal/Hobby was an oversight, though; we can add it now for new responses, I think.

Thanks for feedback!

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-- Josh Berkus
Kubernetes Community Architect
OSPO, OCTO


Catherine Paganini
 

Not sure what this group did exactly, but we got an additional 30+ responses — thank you so much! 
Can we repeat that one more time this week (and maybe next)? Repetition works! 

Reposting the sample social post and write up for your convenience. 
Thanks again, we really appreciate your support!! 

Tweet/LinkedIn
For tweets please use @CloudNativeFdn handle, for LinkedIn, tag the CNCF*

Open source contributors, CNCF projects want to hear about your
contributor experience. Please take this survey, and let us know how we
can improve 👇

Write-up:
If you are an open source contributor, please participate in this survey
project maintainers to better understand your friction points and how
they can improve. Projects really want to provide the best possible
contributor experience, but it's not always easy to understand what it
feels like to be on the other side. Help them help you by providing
candid feedback — thank you!

*To tag a person or organization in LinkedIn, type @ and the name. The
CNCF should pop up.


On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 12:36 PM Josh Berkus <jberkus@...> wrote:
On 10/5/22 01:33, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Question 3 overloads two orthogonal questions
> * "How long have you been (not) around", and
> * "What is your motivation, payment or studies?", while leaving out
> "personal/hobby/I believe in it"
> into one.

We put a lot of work into getting the survey down to 20 questions.  That
involved combining some questions where we felt it was safe. Leaving out
Personal/Hobby was an oversight, though; we can add it now for new
responses, I think.

Thanks for feedback!

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-- Josh Berkus
    Kubernetes Community Architect
    OSPO, OCTO