Calum Morrell

…system to create online surveys with?

Well the answer is simple: absolutely no clue! I am, however, doing some research into this at present, so have this afternoon created a free account on Survey Monkey, a commercial hosted provider. It would be greatly appreciated if you could all follow this link right here (CLICK ME!!) and complete my very short survey. I need 100 hundred responses, as that’s the maximum Survey Monkey allow per survey on a free account.

Anyone with prior experience creating online surveys, please feel free to leave your thoughts on Survey Monkey and any others you’ve used in the comments box for this article.

aKademy 2007 ended last Saturday afternoon and as part of the local team I left for the last time at 10:03pm on the Sunday. So approximately a week and a half of observing my first FLOSS conference while doing whatever was needed of me. I even got to talk to a few of the attendees and will hopefully be keeping in touch with a couple of them.

The most obvious point from it all was the level of effort Kenny Duffus put in to ensure things went as smoothly as possible. Certainly the efforts of all but a couple of the local team were very much appreciated and absolutely necessary through the conference, but it was the dedication of Kenny that kept things running and who was called on constantly by attendees and team alike whenever some non-trivial problem occurred. (more…)