[OSM-talk] OSMF 2021 Survey is activated: please take the survey!

[Christoph Hormann]

On Sunday 17 January 2021, Allan Mustard wrote:
> The 2021 OSMF Survey of the OSM community has been activated.  It
> will be open for participation until February 14th.  Please surf to
> the following URLs to register for the survey.  You will receive an
> email in return with a single-use token that can be used to take the
> survey.

For those who want to see the full survey beforehand - and for future 
reference when discussing answers, here is the survey in English as it 
appears on firefox to me:

https://imagico.de/files/survey_osmfboard_2021.png

I did not do the same for all the other languages.  Doing this via 
screenshot and pro forma answering the questions which require 
answering to continue is just too annoying for me to do on unpaid time 
more than once. ;-)

I think though it is essential for any analysis of survey results to 
have an accurate picture of how the survey presented itself to the 
respondents - especially since no translation will be semantically 
identical so someone filling out the survey in German will answer 
different questions than someone doing it in English (as discussed this 
problem could be mitigated by using simple language and avoiding 
subtext, external references and culture specific terminology - 
although it can never be fully eliminated this way).

And I hate to sound like a broken record, but once again: Privacy policy 
anyone?  Even after Brexit the OSMF cannot just ignore the GDPR.

I can see that a lot of work went into the survey so independent of the 
outcome thanks for that.  I will probably comment on the survey design 
and framing separately later.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
https://www.imagico.de/