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LTR usage survey

April 2, 2020 QGIS Project blog

Back in 2018, we asked QGIS users how often they use QGIS and how often they upgrade. Today, we want to find out more about how different user groups and organisations use QGIS and particularly the LTR. You may be aware of ongoing discussions concerning potentially extending the LTR period and other potential steps to further improve user experience.

To better understand the needs of our QGIS community, we therefore invite you to our new LTR usage survey:

https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/single/::nKmWHGWv

Update as posted on the mailing list: 

Thanks to all respondents, we’ve collected over 1,600 responses to this questionnaire!

Some interesting tidbits:

  1. The LTR concept seems to be well accepted: 50% of respondents use 3.10 LTR, 38% use 3.12, and 16% use 3.4 LTR.
  2. Most respondents install patch versions but 27% do so less often than every 6 months.
  3. Most respondents install .0 releases but 17% wait until .3 or longer
  4. 6% of respondents work in organizations with more than >100 users. It will be interesting to look at those responses separately.
  5. 7% say that they still need 32bit installers

You can find the raw survey responses here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lECEhusQcpDpb50MSMYP_5BDfEl4jXeV

by underdark at 9:15 AM under ltr , qgis community , user question of the month

Results of the user questionnaire from Sep’19

October 28, 2019 QGIS Project blog

Last month’s user question focused on QGIS documentation. More specifically, we asked how you learn how to use QGIS. And many of you answered our call. Indeed we collected 824 responses over a period of two weeks:

The answers to the first question show that the top three first sources of information on how to use QGIS features or solve problems are: 1. search engines, 2. Stack Exchange, and 3. the QGIS User Manual:

The answers to the second question show that most respondents look for information around 2-3 times a week:

The third question asked specifically about the official QGIS documentation and answers revealed that most users sometimes or often find answers there:

Overall respondents use the official documentation rather rarely:

Finally, there was an open ended question:

You can download the full responses if you’re interested in the details.

The results and lessons we can learn from the responses are currently being discussed on the community mailing list.

by underdark at 7:57 PM under documentation , user question of the month

User question of the Month – Sep’19

September 28, 2019 QGIS Project blog

After the summer break, we’re back with a new user question.

This month, we want to focus on documentation. Specifically, we’d like to know how you learn how to use QGIS.

The survey is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Ukrainian, and Indonesian. If you want to help us translate user questions into more languages, please get in touch on the community mailing list!

by underdark at 11:44 AM under user question of the month

User question of the Month – Feb’19 & answers from Jan

February 5, 2019 QGIS Project blog

In January, we wanted to learn more about if and how QGIS users contribute back to the project. We received 299 responses from all over the world:

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55% of responders have contributed to the project in the past:

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Responders who stated that they had contributed to QGIS were asked to specify what kind of contributions they had provided. This question was multiple-choice. Time contributions are generally more common than financial contributions. 30% of responders helped by creating reproducible bug reports and 24% implemented improvements themselves. The most common financial contribution are personal donations to QGIS.ORG at 17%.

Membership in user groups, contracting developers / documentation writers / translators, or having a support contract with a QGIS support provider are less common amongst responders:

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Responders who stated that they had not contributed to QGIS most commonly stated that they didn’t know how to contribute (26%), while lacking financial resources were only raised by 10% of responders:

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New question

This month, we’d like to know which plugins you think should be advertised as “featured” on the official QGIS plugin repository.

The survey is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Ukrainian, Danish, and Japanese. If you want to help us translate user questions in more languages, please get in touch!

by underdark at 6:22 PM under uncategorized , user question of the month

User question of the Month – Jan19 & answers from Dec

January 7, 2019 QGIS Project blog

In December, we wanted to know what QGIS.ORG should focus on in 2019.

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Based on these results, in today’s PSC meeting, we’ve decided that the 2019 grant programme will be focusing on bug fixing and polishing existing features. So thanks to everyone who provided feedback!

New question

This month, we’d like to know if you have ever contributed to improving QGIS and – if yes – how. As you’ll see, there are many different ways to contribute to QGIS, so please go ahead and take the survey.

The survey is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Ukrainian, and Danish. If you want to help us translate user questions in more languages, please get in touch!

by underdark at 9:03 PM under user question of the month

User question of the Month – Dec 18 & answers from Nov

December 3, 2018 QGIS Project blog

It’s December and that means it is time to plan for the next year. Planning also means preparing a budget and to do so, we would like to learn more about what you think QGIS.ORG should focus on: features or bug fixing and polishing? Therefore, we invite you to our QGIS user question of December 2018.

We also have localized translated versions of this questionnaire for our French-speaking and Portuguese-speaking users.

Your answers in November

In November, we wanted to know which version of QGIS you use.

by underdark at 9:00 PM under qgis community , user question of the month

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