🚀 go-pugleaf

In <glenn.710398074@chuditch> glenn@cs.uwa.oz.au (Glenn Huxtable) writes:

>In <9218811.16133@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> ggr@corowa.acci.com.au (Greg Rose) writes:

>>In article <1992Jul5.042230.17804@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:
>>>>Total Votes Received:	109
>>>
>>>It's almost like only the candidates voted (0.25 :-))

>this is an interesting figure - very close to the number of people who 
>responded to my informal survey of aus.auug readers. does this mean that we
>should pay as much attention to aus.auug as we do to the election of the
>committee? ( there are arguments that aus.auug represents a (noisy) minority 
>view ).


I did do an informal survey of 'aus.auug' readers a while back. Next time I
try this (RSN:-) I will ask more direct questions :-)

The question I asked was something like 

	"are you an auug member and do you read aus.auug?"

a common answer was 'yes' :-(

anyway, the informal results of my informal poll were:

	101 responses

	76 said they were aus.auug members (or were known by me to be).
	 7 didn't make it clear.
	18 said they were not aus.auug members.


The purpose of the poll was to try to get an idea of what percentage of
our membership we can reach through aus.auug. Likewise a search of our
membership database should turn up a figure for how many members we can
conveniently keep in touch with via email and perhaps FAX (for specific 
announcements). My point is not to disadvantage members without aus.auug or 
email access, but to see if it is worth the effort to make particular use of 
these facilities, and to gain a measure of how representative the 'discussion' 
in aus.auug is of our total membership (numbers).

As I said, the returns on the recent election totalled a rather interesting 
number in light of my poll. The election *should* be as representative of the 
membership as we can get (yes, I'd like to live in an ideal world too :-) 
Does this mean that aus.auug is only slightly less representative of auug
members than the actual voting membership?

I'm afraid the informal poll was perhaps too informal to provide much quality 
information. At the risk of boring people, I intend to make another slightly
more informative poll (one which askes more direct questions) in the near 
future.

glenn
-- 
Email  - glenn@cs.uwa.edu.au	  ,-_|\ 			 glenn huxtable
phone  - +61 9 380 2878 	 /     \ 	       dept of computer science
fax    - +61 9 380 1089   	 *_,-._/	university of western australia
                                      v