FreeBSD evidently found last year’s Community Survey so useful that they’re turning it into an annual event.
The FreeBSD Core Team and the FreeBSD Foundation have a few questions it would like to ask its users.
What this means is that it’s survey time at FreeBSD… again. In other words, 2024’s user survey turns out not to have been the one-off we thought it was, and the FreeBSD Community Survey is looking like it’s going to become an annual event. This year’s survey was announced on Friday will run through May 7. Taking it won’t take much time — 15 minutes the organization says on its website — and the information gleaned from the results will be key for keeping the project on track.
The foundation says that last year’s survey was used to help it determine the project’s priorities — which can change from year to year — as well as a guide for its development efforts and community engagement strategies for the upcoming year and beyond. The surveys are helpful for identifying user needs, assessing satisfaction levels, and highlighting areas requiring improvement, such as hardware support, documentation, and contribution processes.
The way I figure it, if you use FreeBSD — or you use a BSD at all for that matter — you’re in a pretty small ecosphere, so you might as well take the survey to let the folks who develop and maintain it know what they’re doing right, where they could use improvement, and what they’re not doing that you wish they would do.
Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
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