From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:12:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Advertising the Git User's Survey 2011
Message-ID: <20100922191207.GD4711@vfa-6z.perlninja.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim1mLhQnJPT9KiinR4L3C=O9L=V9M3X9x7Cr+oC@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:57:35 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 13:38, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Currenly the survey has more than 5000 responses (in a not whole month)
> 
> That seems somewhat low, but maybe people just aren't that interested
> in taking surveys.
> 
> This may have to do with advertising however. Have you contacted sites
> like GitHub, Gitorious etc. asking them to advertise it? Is there
> maybe a list of people that have been contacted somewhere?

You mean, this?

http://github.com/blog/717-git-user-survey-2010

> 
> I bet if we could get e.g. GitHub to advertise it in their regular
> news distribution system we could raise that number of 5000
> respondents significantly.

-- 
Jacob Helwig