[Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

Thu Sep 30 13:53:36 CEST 2010

2010/9/30 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+> Agreed. Surveys are a nuisance anyway.
+> 1. A large part of survey participants do not tell the truth.
+> 2. A large part of users do not participate so you will not get any
+> real information anyway.
+> 3. If something is wrong with the project, the distribution, user
+> satisfaction or whatever you will know it by user postings in the
+> forums earlier than by surveys.
+>
+> So, at the end of the day,
+> What do you get by surveys to take away?
+> More work to implement and to read them, that's all.
+I mean what wobo has written. Besides, forum posts are more effective
+way to track users opinions about distro and applications. I always
+hated this survey thing on Mandriva. Also it feels something like a
+registration to a propierty application or validate a windows install.
+Many users in Mandriva Turkiye community asked me if they *must* fill
+survey and register their e-mails. Most of them were new to GNU Linux.
+
+I think we should decide if we will implement a Welcome Center/Kaptan
+to distro and if it is an informative screen or basic configuration
+tool or both for newbies. I' m not interested in filling the blanks on
+a survey. Also a survey would be introduced in main web site. Any
+interested user should fill it.
+