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Australia is a community and volunteer-run organisation.</span><span
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In order to better understand and meet the needs and aspirations
of our 3000-strong member community, the Council wishes to
design and administer a member survey. The resulting analysis
and recommended actions would input into the organisation’s
strategic agenda for the next few years, strengthening our
organisation and our membership base. </span><br>
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We'd very much welcome your input into the survey design and
approach, and our initial thoughts on the survey approach are
listed below for your feedback. Feedback may be sent publicly to
this list, or privately to Council (please indicate if you would
like your feedback to remain anonymous and we will not disclose
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Is our approach right? Do the four phases of the survey make
sense?<br>
Are we asking the right questions or covering the right areas in
the design phase?</p>
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we offer incentives for completion of the survey?<br>
How often should we repeat the survey?</p>
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an engagement that could be done within the community or do you
think we need to engage with a commercial provider to do this?</p>
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you in advance for your feedback, thoughts and reflections,<br>
With kind regards,<br>
Kathy<br>
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survey should be designed according to qualitative and
quantitative best practice methods, enabling statistically valid
data to be captured on areas such as;<br>
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of the community</span></p>
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of the community in Linux Australia’s leadership, vision and
effectiveness</span></p>
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within the community of services and facilities provided by
Linux Australia</span></p>
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within the community of Linux Australia’s priorities and
activities, and identification of whether these need to
change</span></p>
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of unmet community needs</span></p>
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survey should be administered if possible using an open
source-licensed toolset. It may be hosted in the cloud or on
Linux Australia’s infrastructure. If hosted in the cloud, Linux
Australia should be able to retain access to all data captured
for future use. </span></p>
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survey tool, and survey questions, should be able to be re-used
in future years to assist in the identification of key trends
over time. </span></p>
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survey tool should allow only one submission per respondent, and
restrict respondents to current Linux Australia members. Linux
Australia will provide a full membership listing for this
purpose. </span></p>
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engagement also seeks an objective and insightful analysis of
the survey results. The party undertaking the survey will need
to have a thorough understanding of Linux Australia’s history,
the wider political and organisational environment in which it
operates and the broader open source community in order to
effectively deliver here. </span></p>
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analysis should graphically represent recommendations or
conclusions where possible to enhance the readability of the
report. </span></p>
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corrective and initiative action</span></h2>
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or initiative actions should be recommended in the analysis
report to address weaknesses, gap areas or areas of opportunity.
Recommendations should be prioritised for action based on
findings in the survey data. </span></p>
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Kathy Reid
Secretary
Linux Australia
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:secretary@linux.org.au">secretary@linux.org.au</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux.org.au">http://linux.org.au</a>
Linux Australia Inc
GPO Box 4788
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
ABN 56 987 117 479</pre>
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