Sunday, June 20, 2010

Survey Update

So far, I've gotten responses from 35 GNOME members, out of 192 respondents, total.

Of those GNOME members
  • 6 (17.6%) are members of the FSF
  • 21 (60%) of these respondents say that they routinely use the term "Linux" when referring to "an operating system based on a Linux kernel, etc."; 8 (22.9%) use "GNU/Linux", and 6 (17.1%) use some other term (including the interesting alternative of "Leftux"in one instance—I guess this respondent will be easy to spot should he-or-she be attending GUADEC)
  • When limited to the two alternatives, 25 (71.4%) chose "Linux" and 10 (28.6%) chose "GNU/Linux".
When given four potential focuses to prioritize for the Board, GNOME members ranked the alternatives as follows:

Focus
Most Important
More Important
Less Important
Least Important
Average Score
Overseeing the GNOME 3 road map
10
(30.3%)
13
(39.4%)
8
(24.2%)
2
(8.1%)
2.94
Building better bridges to corporate users of GNOME technologies
8
(25.8%)
12
(38.7%)
7
(22.6%)
4
(12.9%)
2.77
Providing technical oversight and direction
7
(24.1%)
7
(24.1%)
10
(34.5%)
5
(17.2%)
2.55
Educating users about the FSF's views on software freedom
6
(17.6%)
3
(8.8%)
7
(20.6%)
18
(52.9%)
1.91

Obviously, the more Foundation members who participate, the more authoritative the survey will be: the current number of respondents represents perhaps 1 in 10 Foundation members. If you haven't participated yet, please take a moment to do so.

Since I'm mainly interested in this issue as it affects the foundation-list and Board activities, I'm not reporting the overall totals at this point, but will do so once I've gotten what seem to be a large enough number of responses to be indicative of something.

Let's please remember that this was raised as an specific issue to prospective Board candidates by Mr. Stallman, a Foundation member, prior to the election. Head-shaking and moans of "Not again!" seem entirely inappropriate, unless our method of dealing with divisive issues is pretending that they simply don't exist....
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