Perl Survey - Final Days - Please Alert any Stragglers
Thanks to all for the wonderful response rate. At this point we're a little over the 3,000 mark. I'm going to close the survey down at 7:00 am UTC on Thursday the 3rd of June, so if there are people you think still need to answer the survey, please point them at http://survey.perlfoundation.org.
I'll process the data file to make it useful over the weekend, and have a preliminary report ready early next week.
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For what it is worth, when I ran the mod_perl survey with Adam Prime, we spent a couple of months getting the word out. It might be worth holding it open another couple of weeks to get the stragglers who represent a large demographic of perl programmers but aren't plugged into blogs, pm groups, etc. I've forwarded the link to my PM group, the mod_perl list, and have posted it a few other places.
In one sense I agree with you. However, I've got a large sample together very quickly. There's enough demographic (personal and perl related) information in the survey for me to be able to partition out activist versus non-activist programmers quite nicely. With a large population, I only really need a sample of 30 to 100 uncommitted programmers to be able to make meaningful comparisons and estimate the properties of the non-respondents.
Thanks for handing invitations to participate to so many people!
I had a couple people from the mod_perl list email saying they just missed it, so if you open it up again for another round please give a shout.
Nice number of responses, great work there.