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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks, Klaus,</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I'd love to do that...I
am not a software developer so don't have a clue as to how to
integrate that into LimeSurvey. Perhaps you could video
conference with me so we could discuss--I would not know where
to begin, and don't want to do something that cripples the
survey in the middle of it! LimeSurvey doesn't have a built in
list of countries--we looked--but it does have the map function
so the best we could do with the built-in capability was to ask
respondents to click anywhere in their countries of residence,
since the country is all we really want. LimeSurvey collects
those lat-long coordinates, and Jean-Marc has built a reverse
geocoder so we can turn the coordinates into the name of the
country.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Now, what you propose
would be great to incorporate into future surveys, and I would
be very keen to work on that with you. Not having to convert
lat-long coordinates would be a relief.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Regarding creating a
table of participants for mass mailings, we can only do that
with Foundation members, not with the general public--there are
some legal issues in certain countries. We examined the idea of
emailing Foundation members, but were concerned that this could
lead to selection bias. We are thus publicizing the survey
through social media, the talk lists, and whatever networks we
can reach. I have posted a notice on the main page of the wiki,
in the calendar, and we have submitted a pull request for a
banner on osm.org. I ask that everybody continue to help
publicize the survey. It is especially important to publicize
it in other languages than English, in communications channels
local communities use.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Please PM me if you're
willing to video conference with me about your idea--I'd like to
pursue it.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">cheers,<br>
apm</font></p>
On 1/22/2021 4:16 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:k127@gmx.de">k127@gmx.de</a> wrote:<br>
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<div class="">Allan, thank you for the feedback on some metrics,
which inspired me make a modest proposal:</div>
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<div class="">Since question D5 mentions that "no exact location
is required", perhaps a drop-down field to select only the
country instead of asking for an exact location on the map could
improve acceptance.</div>
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<span class="">I can offer a question "Which country do you
currently live in?" with this drop-down list. The question and
country list has already been translated into the following
languages: ar, bn, bs, de, el, en (base language), es,
fa, fi, fr, hi, hu, id, it, ja, ko, mr, nl, pa, pl,
pt, pt-BR, ro, ru, sv, swh, ta, te, tr, uk, ur, vi,
yo, zh-Hans (thanks to Translators without Borders).<br
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<div class="">If you think this might help, you can find the file
here: <a
href="https://www.mapplications.org/limesurvey_question_123.lsq.gz"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.mapplications.org/limesurvey_question_123.lsq.gz</a> (for
at least one month)</div>
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<div class="">Another thought regarding the volume of
participation: the survey is anonymous and therefore no
participant data is linked to the responses. Is there a
restriction that prevents the authors from creating a table of
participants with the email addresses of all OSM users and
sending out invitations to participate?</div>
<div class="">E.g. question D3 "Optional Demographic: How long
have you been involved in the OSM project?" could thus be
pre-filled based on the registration date.</div>
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<div class="">Best</div>
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<div class="">Klaus</div>
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<div class="">Am 22.01.2021 um 20:19 schrieb Allan Mustard
<<a href="mailto:allan.mustard@osmfoundation.org"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">allan.mustard@osmfoundation.org</a>>:</div>
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<div class=""> <font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Thank you all for spreading the word on
the OSMF 2021 survey. </font><font class=""
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font class=""
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">At the moment,
after 5-1/2 days, we have 1496 responses, of which
1116 are "full", meaning they included demographic
data that will allow us to do some cross-sectional
analysis </font> (almost 29% of respondents decline
to provide demographic data). But keep spreading the
word. We have 16 languages available: (English,
Chinese (Traditional; Taiwan), French, German,
Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian,
Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish,
Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese). If you know of a
group that needs another language and can link me with
someone to translate the questionnaire, please do so!
I have become adept at copying and pasting languages I
don't understand into Lime Survey.</font>
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<p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">We needed 1067 respondents to
achieve a 3% error term at the 95% confidence
level, but now I'd like for us to push for a 2%
error term. As you all know, the larger the
sample, the more accurate the estimates, and the
wider we cast our net, the less the selection
bias. For that we need 4160 respondents. We
have three weeks left in the survey so it is
possible if we continue to spread the word.
Please help! The URL is <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://osmf.limequery.org/281662"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://osmf.limequery.org/281662</a>
Please spread the word in whatever other
languages you can, please encourage OSMers to
participate, please use all available
communication channels to reach as many corners
of the OSMverse as you can!<br class="">
</font></p>
<p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Many thanks again for your support.</font></p>
<p class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">cheers,<br class="">
apm<br class="">
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<font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">-------<br
class="">
<i class="">Allan Mustard, Chairperson</i><br
class="">
<i class="">Board of Directors</i><br class="">
<i class="">OpenStreetMap Foundation</i></font></p>
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<i>Allan Mustard, Chairperson</i><br>
<i>Board of Directors</i><br>
<i>OpenStreetMap Foundation</i></div>
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