[Insight-developers] SimpleITK Community Survey Draft

[Gabe Hart]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the feedback!  I'll work on putting these edits in place asap.

-Gabe

On 09/16/2010 01:50 AM, Dan Mueller wrote:
> Hi Gabe,
>
> Thanks for creating the survey. Some thoughts:
>
> Page 1, "ITK is being significantly revamped for the upcoming version 4 release"
> Consider adding the expected release date in brackets.
>
> Page 1, "One of the most important pieces of feedback from our users
> has been that ITK's power comes with a steep learning curve and makes
> many less-complicated tasks more difficult than necessary."
> This sentence is a bit wordy. People are busy, consider shortening it.
> For example:
> "Previous user feedback has indicated ITK's power comes with a steep
> learning curve, sometimes over-complicating simple tasks."
>
> Page 1, "The goal of this survey is to collect your thoughts on what
> the most important features of ITK's new simple layer should be."
> Again, perhaps a bit wordy. Consider:
> "The aim of this survey is to determine the most important features to
> include in the new ITK simple layer."
>
> Page 2, question 5 "Which of the following best describes your why you
> write code?"
> Typo: remove "your".
>
> Page 2, question 8. What operating systems do you use for image analysis work?
> Do we need an "other" free-text field?
>
> Page 2, questions 10,11,12: First time I read these questions, I
> thought they were the same on (a typo). Is it possible to underline
> "understandable", "easy", "useful" to clearly show the difference? Do
> we really need to ask all three?
>
> Page 3, question 9. What types of devices would you like to be able to
> use SimpleITK on?
> Do we need an "other" free-text field? Mobile device?
>
> Page 4, question 3. How important is it to you for SimpleITK to use a
> pipeline system similar to the one in ITK?
> Can this question be included in question 2 above?
> For example:
> Simple image filters (eg. Gaussian filter)
> Pipeline of image filters (eg. Gaussian then Sigmoid filter)
>
> HTH
>
> Cheers, Dan
>
> On 15 September 2010 23:14, Gabe Hart<gabe.hart at kitware.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is the link to the first draft of the SimpleITK community survey:
>>
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SimpleITKCommunitySurvey
>>
>> If anyone has feedback on changes (new questions, rewording, order, etc...),
>> please let me know and I'll make the appropriate adjustments.  Also, an
>> initial list of target communities has been compiled at
>>
>> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/SimpleITK/Survey_1#Target_Audience
>>
>> If anyone knows of other communities that should be added, please put them
>> up on the wiki. Our goal is to find someone who is already involved in each
>> of these groups to publish the surveys, so if you or someone you know would
>> be a good liaison, please put that on the wiki as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Gabe
>>
>>