Results from opensource.com Annual Reader Survey 2013

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The opensource.com Annual Reader Survey had 59 respondents this year. If you didn't get a chance to give us your thoughts this time around, we'll be sending out a short poll to our mailing list about user experience soon. To participate, sign up here.

Our survey asked 20 questions and we got some great responses that are helping us better understand you and what you want from a resource for the open source movement like opensource.com.

Here we've summarized feedback from the survey. Please leave comments with your thoughts or additional input. Thanks for being a part of our community!


How were you introduced to opensource.com? 

  • Many were previously Red Hat Magazine readers.
  • Others find us through search and other news sites.

How are you typically alerted to a new article? 

  • Many read new articles via weekly emails and RSS feeds.
  • Others go directly to our homepage or connect via Twitter.

Have you read one of our free eBooks

  • Most didn't realize eBooks are available.
  • Help us help you: How can we make them more visible for you to access?

Have you ever used opensource.com as a way to help someone better understand open source

Two open-ended questions:

1. Whom would you like to see interviewed on the site?

  • Common answer: Linus Torvalds, Gabriella Coleman, open source project leaders, up-and-comers
  • Outlier answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

2. What additional comments or questions do you have for us?

  • Common answer: Keep up the great work
  • Outlier answer: Don't use logins! (Do you agree?)

See the full results [PDF] and leave us some feedback below.

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Jen leads a team of community managers for the Digital Communities team at Red Hat. She lives in Raleigh with her husband and daughters, June and Jewel.

2 Comments

Very informative report, thank you Jen.

As for feedback, if there is one thing that's been on my mind for a few months now, is a responsive design for opensource.com. It would make reading the articles on a device such as tablet and smartphone a bit easier. I'd be happy to help out, if this would be followed up.

We'll be getting a responsive design when we upgrade to Drupal 7. We're in the early planning stages for that.

Jason

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