One more slogan for the list:

Firebird: The Professionals Choice

Sorry, couldn't resist...
Anyway, there's a polling system somewhere underneath
firebird.sourceforge.net - why not do the survey there?

Nige.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of paulruizendaal
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:11 PM
> To: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Firebird-general] Re: Summarising the slogan list
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> > > Because the complete list of slogans can easily grow more
> that 100
> > > (or 200) it will be hard for a slogan to gain the majority.
> > > Probably the vote itself is better to be divided on two phases:
> > > First phase is to vote for "slogan theme" and [...] after we can
> > > start on voting about concrete slogan
> >
> > Disagreed. Just vote for everything, or make a "5 votes,
> give points
> > from 1 .. 10). After that, make it "vote phase 2" - the 10
> or 20 best
> > slogans are to be voted on again.
>
> The first is simpler to do, the second might be better.
> Perhaps everybody should get 10 points, and distribute these
> 10 over the preferred slogans (i.e give 1 slogan 10 points or
> 2 slogans 5 points,
> etc.) Perhaps people should also vote on "most disliked" in
> parallel, to have an idea if a slogan is controversial. The
> problem is: who will write the software for such a
> complicated voting system? How will we provide an audit log,
> so that everybody can check the outcome, if so desired?
>
> The problem may be less than 100 or 200 entries, because I
> think -- with 1 month of reflection behind us -- many
> proposals on this list will not be put forward for the vote.
>
> Also, "getting a majority" may not be the relevant issue.
> What we need is a list of 2..4 slogans that have substantial
> support and that we can test with a wider audience. Something
> that works for us may not work for the people that we are
> trying to reach. Commercial marketeers would use a "focus
> group" for such testing.
>
> Does anybody have a bright idea how to organise this for open
> source projects? Would it be possible to ask FrontRange if
> some of their resellers would be willing to participate in an
> online focus group?
>
> Paul
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