RE: What Motivates our Community?RE: What Motivates our Community?https://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=119785333&threadId=100441092024-03-29T07:32:07Z2024-03-29T07:32:07ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Corné Aussemshttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=113526492011-11-06T22:14:54Z2011-11-06T22:14:54ZThanks for all information sofar <br />As a start I promised some list of questions aggregated from FOSS studies.<br />I did not make verticals/horizontals as Tomasz suggests or spend any thought on how we should conduct a survey since i have no knowledge on this.<br /><br /><strong>General:</strong><br />What is your;<br />- Nationality<br />- Location<br />- Sex- Age<br />- Education<br />- Profession<br /><br /><strong>Liferay :</strong><br /><em>How long do you know about Liferay ?</em><br /><1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10<br /><br /><em>How did you get to know Liferay ?</em><br />Educational institute, Employer, Customer, Myself, Other<br /><br />How long do you use Liferay ?<br /><1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 years<br /><br />How did you get to use Liferay ?<br />I decided myself to use Liferay, Someone else decided to use Liferay, Me and others decided to use Liferay<br /><br /><em>What ratio of your professional time are you busy on/with Liferay ?</em><br />10-90,20-80,30-40,.....<br /><br /><em>Which Liferay information sources do you use most ?</em><br />Books, LR Forum, LR Wiki, LR Blogs, LR Live, Other Forum, Other Blogs, ...<br /><br /><em>How many Liferay projects did you worked on?</em><br />0,1,2,3,4,....<br /><br /><em>What versions Of Liferay did you use;</em><br />1.7.5, ..., 6<br /><br /><em>What is your Liferay Projects CE / EE ratio</em><br />10-90,20-80,30-40,.....<br /><br /><em>Are you working for a Liferay Partner?</em><br />Yes,No<br /><br /><em>Do you expect Liferay to stay Open source?</em><br />Yes,No<br /><br /><em>Do you expect Liferay to be bought by Oracle?</em><br />Yes,No<br /><br /><strong>Contribution :</strong><br /><em>Do you contribute to the Liferay Community ?</em><br />Yes, No<br /><br /><em>How much time do you spend monthly contributing to other Open Source projects ?</em><br />0,1,2,3,4,....<br /><br /><em>How much time do you spend monthly to community participation ? (School,Sports,Municipality,etc)</em><br />0,1,2,3,4,..<br />..<br /><br /><strong>No I do not contribute</strong><br /><em>Why don't you contribute to Liferay ?</em><br />Not enough knowledge, No time, No interest, No expected benefit, Liferay is no true Open Source project, Liferay inc should do it.<br /><br /><em>When would you contribute?</em><br />Never, When i have more knowledge on Liferay, When i get Liferay recognition, When i get Liferay goodies, When i get Liferay training. When i get special Liferay priviledges.<br /><br /><strong>Yes I do contribute</strong><br /><em>How long do you contribute to the Liferay Community ?</em><br />1,2,3,4,5,6,7 years<br /><br /><em>How do you contribute to the Liferay Community ?\</em><br />No, Forum, Blogs, Bug Squad, Documentation, Wiki, Translation, Fixing bugs, Community Plugins, Sponsored development<br /><br /><em>How much time do you spend monthly contributing to Liferay ?</em><br />0,1,2,3,4,....<br /><br /><em>What is your motivation to contribute to the Liferay Community .</em><br />Giving something back, <br />Learn participating in a group, <br />Build relationships, <br />Recognition, <br />Intellectual challenge,<br />learn and develop new skills,<br />share knowledge and skills,<br />think that software should not be a proprietary good,<br />get help in realizing a good idea for a software product,<br />improve Liferay of other developers,<br />improve my job opportunities,<br />make money<br /><br /><em>How do you value your Liferay Community contribution.</em><br />I give more than, less thank the same as I take<br /><br /><em>How do you value others Liferay Community contribution.</em><br />They give more than, less than, the same as I take<br /><br /><em>Do you think contributing to the Liferay Project improves your chances on the labourmarket</em><br />Yes, No<br /><br /><em>Does your company reward OS contribution by employees.</em><br />No,more salary, better position, provides worktime, provides tools, provides courses, otherCorné Aussems2011-11-06T22:14:54ZRE: What Motivates our Community?James Falknerhttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=111058492011-10-14T17:55:43Z2011-10-14T17:55:43Z<div class="quote-title">Victor Zorin:</div><blockquote>Yes, we have. I'll put out the suggestions this week. As usual, takes longer than expected as new projects kick in...</blockquote><br /><br /><br />Friendly ping <img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/happy.gif" > Any chance you could put out your suggestions in the next 11 days? We have our <a href="http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/11105801">quarterly community leadership team meeting coming up on October 25</a> and it'd be nice to talk about this and move it to the next step during that call.James Falkner2011-10-14T17:55:43ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Victor Zorinhttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=109103702011-09-27T05:31:14Z2011-09-27T05:31:14ZYes, we have. I'll put out the suggestions this week. As usual, takes longer than expected as new projects kick in...Victor Zorin2011-09-27T05:31:14ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Corné Aussemshttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=109026042011-09-26T14:55:00Z2011-09-26T14:55:00ZI started 2 weeks ago with summing up a list of questions.<br />Until today i did not have time finish.<br />Hope to find some time this week if there is still need for some input.<br /><br />Otherwise I focus on translations which are also way due. <img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/sad.gif" >Corné Aussems2011-09-26T14:55:00ZRE: What Motivates our Community?James Falknerhttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=109016792011-09-26T14:35:23Z2011-09-26T14:35:23ZYeah, I just came here to bump this thread and find out if Victor & Co. have had a chance to work on the survey! <img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/happy.gif" >James Falkner2011-09-26T14:35:23ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Hitoshi Ozawahttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=105851652011-08-26T12:25:22Z2011-08-26T12:25:22ZAnother question is how many are using JAM (JBoss + Apache + MySQL). JBoss is popular in Japan because of EJB, but I think that is<br />most other countries, Tomcat is being used more because it lighter.Hitoshi Ozawa2011-08-26T12:25:22ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Hitoshi Ozawahttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=105805722011-08-26T01:21:23Z2011-08-26T01:21:23ZVictor referred me to this thread to get a question in a survey. From the posts, I'm not too sure if the content is right for the upcoming here.<br /><br />I'm just wondering how many are using the OLA (OpenAM + Liferay + Alfresco) combination set.<br /><br />http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/10580564Hitoshi Ozawa2011-08-26T01:21:23ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Drew Blessinghttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=105000002011-08-18T12:20:33Z2011-08-18T12:20:33Z<div class="quote-title">David García González:</div><blockquote>2.- I like the idea of award the users with badges and prizes. A user that gives a good answer and receive good votes must gain more points that users that only make open questions but never gives good answers.</blockquote><br /><br />This kind of sounds like a Google +1 or Facebook Like. <img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/happy.gif" > I kind of like this model, though. It does increase the rank of those who contribute answers rather than just ask questions or just give generic unhelpful answers.Drew Blessing2011-08-18T12:20:33ZRE: What motivates community members in contributing!Victor Zorinhttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104976492011-08-18T08:48:57Z2011-08-18T08:48:57Z<div class="quote-title">James Falkner:</div><blockquote><br />surveys...<br />Oh, I knew you were going to volunteer your services here..., but using CE for a Community survey sounds more inviting and fun :-)</blockquote><br />A brief note: I have asked our Team Leader, Rhys, to commence mapping the survey structure, based on your and Tomas input and Alfresco sample. <br />Survey should be coming up for discussions soon (subject to other workload...), hopefully by the end of next week. <br />Rhys will join Liferay forum and will continue this conversation when ready.Victor Zorin2011-08-18T08:48:57ZRE: What Motivates our Community?David Gonzálezhttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104967572011-08-18T07:42:15Z2011-08-18T07:42:15ZHi all,<br /><br />I think that Liferay forum should be similar to <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">www.stackoverflow.com</a><br /><br /><br />This portal brought 2 revolucionary ideas to the old forum sites:<br /><br />1.- Mark answers as "Responded" (this is also implemented now but It is not widely used) and <strong>vote the answer</strong>, this is very useful because you can avoid reading all the posts and read only the good answer discarding the others.<br /><br />2.- I like the idea of award the users with badges and prizes. A user that gives a good answer and receive good votes must gain more points that users that only make open questions but never gives good answers.<br /><br />Perhaps with this 2 new ideas users answer more questions and are motivated to do it.<br /><br />What do you think?David González2011-08-18T07:42:15ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Jelmer Kuperushttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104844292011-08-17T11:40:14Z2011-08-17T11:40:14Z<html><head></head><body><blockquote>After working on this project for the past 9 months, we deployed the community edition to approximately 3,000 users</blockquote><br><br><pre><code>I haven't seen any bugs that were show stoppers</code></pre><br><br>All i can say is good luck to you. I just launched a site based on liferay 6.0.6 ce which is pretty straightforward. (blog, messageboard, asset publisher) This is the list of patches we had to backport in order to make it work reasonably well.<br><br>LPS-11916<br>LPS-12012<br>LPS-12103<br>LPS-12163<br>LPS-12916<br>LPS-13526<br>LPS-13835<br>LPS-14081<br>LPS-14331<br>LPS-14475<br>LPS-15515<br>LPS-16004<br>LPS-16352<br>LPS-16478<br>LPS-16975<br>LPS-16994<br>LPS-16996<br>LPS-17026<br>LPS-16993<br>LPS-17037<br>LPS-17126<br>LPS-18043<br>LPS-18181<br>LPS-19231<br>LPS-19870<br><br>And i am pretty sure i am missing some issues here because in some cases i opted to completely replace broken functionality, rather than to apply a patch or i fixed it in a jsp hook<br><br>Mind you I am using the 6.0.6 release that supersedes the 6.0.5 release that was on the site for many months. That release allegedly fixed the most critical bugs in liferay 6.0.5 so all the issues i mention where deemed less critical than any of the many fixes that where in the 6.0.6 release. <br><br>The community edition is just not intended to be used in production. There are many vendors, that sell premium support, that make this claim but for liferay it actually holds true.</body></html>Jelmer Kuperus2011-08-17T11:40:14ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Drew Blessinghttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104742712011-08-17T00:35:39Z2011-08-17T00:35:39Z<div class="quote-title">jelmer kuperus:</div><blockquote>Like many opensource projects Liferay is not very well documented and many new features and best practices are discussed in the forum or on the blogs long before they make it to the official documentation.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />I think Liferay's documentation is pretty good, and improving. I also expect that I will need to be a little more involved in an open-source project and dive in to really figure out what I need. If I expected enterprise support I would certainly purchase a license and get help from the experts.<br /><br /><div class="quote-title">jelmer kuperus:</div><blockquote><br />For me to consider sticking around Liferay would have to be<br /><br />1) Fun to develop on. Yet the codebase is ugly, buggy, untestable and undocumented. Development is strictly controlled by a single corporate entity. As far as I am aware there are no outside committers. There is no developer mailinglist you can follow and Jira tickets with patches linger in jira for months on end. <br /></blockquote><br /><br />I love developing on Liferay. I'm not a Java developer but even with my little bit of Java knowledge I have written some fairly complex portlets. I guess it may not meet your development needs. With regard to outside committers and patches hanging out in JIRA for a length of time, I can somewhat understand the problem. I have heard that Liferay's lead architects are very strict about code format, etc., and I completely understand that. It takes time to make sure patches conform to these strict guidelines and to test the patches to make sure they are solid.<br /><br /><div class="quote-title">jelmer kuperus:</div><blockquote><br />2) A useful tool in my toolbox that i would consider using ever again and as such is worth investing in. But It's not. The community edition has so many bugs that it is unusable for just about any purpose, so i would not be able to use it for any of my pet projects without significant patching. And many of our customers seem to shy away for recurring license fees.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />After working on this project for the past 9 months, we deployed the community edition to approximately 3,000 users over the past week and will expand to almost 60,000 over the next year. I haven't seen any bugs that were show stoppers. When I do find a bug, I report it in JIRA and have had amazingly fast response.<br /><br />I'm sorry you've had some poor experiences with Liferay. I love the community and am much happier contributing here than in some of our other open-source projects.Drew Blessing2011-08-17T00:35:39ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Mika Koivistohttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104730982011-08-16T23:31:56Z2011-08-16T23:31:56Z<div class="quote-title">jelmer kuperus:</div><blockquote><br />1) Fun to develop on. Yet the codebase is ugly, buggy, untestable and undocumented. Development is strictly controlled by a single corporate entity. As far as I am aware there are no outside committers. There is no developer mailinglist you can follow and Jira tickets with patches linger in jira for months on end. </blockquote><br /><br />I don't know the current situation but we've had outside committers in the past. I was one of them. I guess the problem is that we keep recruiting active community members.<br /><br /><div class="quote-title">jelmer kuperus:</div><blockquote><br />In the end I really don't think liferay inc wants a community, they want paying customers. </blockquote><br /><br />I have to disagree with that. If I felt that was true I don't think I could work for Liferay. True we need paying customers to pay for our employees. The more we have paying customers the better the quality is also for our community.Mika Koivisto2011-08-16T23:31:56ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Gaurang Ghttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104585582011-08-16T05:22:24Z2011-08-16T05:22:24ZWhat I can say on my part, what motivates us is to help others find their way / Appreciation / to be known across the community and finally the sense of challenge.<br />To increase participation I very much like the idea of a Free training / certificates.<br /><br />Another option would be Group meetups (location based, hardly find so many of them outside europe / us), members from distant locations have started doing a lot in recent times.<br /><br />Approach people who have already registered (perhaps with a community newsletter), with the most intereting newbie questions<br />since people who don't get back to community might be tempted once they see a good question that they could answer.<br /><br />"Tell us simplest solution how would you solve it?" another very interesting approach by Tomáš <br /><br />If we are looking for people to get motivated, incentive is not such a bad idea.However a more simpler approach might help. People who work on Liferay for real projects encounter quite a number of custom requirements, some of which require digging into Liferay's implementation and extending / implementing some new logic. There is <strong>keen desire </strong>to share the knowledge and perhaps help others who encounter similar requirements. But for this I really miss some place on liferay itself where this can be shared (may be that's why we so many blogs on other hosting with liferay tricks). Perhaps open access to blogs or wiki or create something like a 'newbie blog place' where all such 'innovations' can be shared and perhaps monitored and appreciated.Gaurang G2011-08-16T05:22:24ZRE: What Motivates our Community?James Falknerhttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104579412011-08-16T01:09:10Z2011-08-16T01:09:10Z<div class="quote-title">jelmer kuperus:</div><blockquote>Ok here's my 5 cents<br /><br />I think i can safely say that I fall in the B category but my motivation for participating in the community is quite different. My prime motivation for participating is that i feel it is a necessity for being able to do my job well. Like many opensource projects Liferay is not very well documented and many new features and best practices are discussed in the forum or on the blogs long before they make it to the official documentation. Being active in the community makes sure I stay on top of things<br /> <br />I am not saying that this is my only motivation but it is my prime motivation and I really can't see myself sticking around once i am assigned to a project that does not involve Liferay.<br /></blockquote><br />This is one of Liferay's biggest goals now - we have gotten a lot of momentum and want to use it to create a cohesive software package/platform that people would choose to invest in and use for their own personal projects where they are investing their personal time and effort. <br /><blockquote><br />For me to consider sticking around Liferay would have to be<br /><br />1) Fun to develop on. Yet the codebase is ugly, buggy, untestable and undocumented. Development is strictly controlled by a single corporate entity. As far as I am aware there are no outside committers. There is no developer mailinglist you can follow and Jira tickets with patches linger in jira for months on end. <br /></blockquote><br />If you subscribe to the developer/core developer forum, it's sort of like a mailinglist <img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/happy.gif" > But Liferay has historically not used traditional email-based mailinglists. I believe we are improving on our patch "linger" ratio with things like the 100PC program and bugsquad. We have a couple of engineers whose sole job is to take contributed patches from those projects and integrate them in for 6.1. We never really had this before. So I think you will see improvement if you give it another look. However, it's not all rosy and fixed, of course. We have more work to do (as a community). <br /><br /><blockquote><br />2) A useful tool in my toolbox that i would consider using ever again and as such is worth investing in. But It's not. The community edition has so many bugs that it is unusable for just about any purpose, so i would not be able to use it for any of my pet projects without significant patching. And many of our customers seem to shy away for recurring license fees.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />I personally feel we are improving on our bug management, as a community and as a company. However I don't have any hard evidence (yet) that this is the case, because we have rudimentary reporting tools in JIRA that I'm trying to improve on (through upgrades and some custom plugins). I hope to have more metrics here, but we are constantly aware of bugs, and do our best to track and resolve them. Part of the "no VC money" that Liferay is proud of is also not being able to hire person-power as fast as the community and user base is growing. THat's beyond my pay grade though <img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/happy.gif" > But rest assured the point is not lost on us.<br /><br />BTW, do those customers shy away because they don't think Liferay is worth it? Or they just don't want to pay for support and/or service calls?<br /><br /><blockquote><br />In the end I really don't think liferay inc wants a community, they want paying customers. Which is honestly fine with me, it seems to work for them. But I just don't see why anyone would voluntarily invest any of his / her own time with there being a premium edition out there and there only being a crippled community edition out there for the rest of us.</blockquote><br /><br />I don't agree that we only want customers and no community. Liferay gets <strike>many</strike>most of its EE customers because they use CE and want additional features or support. CE is EE's biggest competitor. Many of the features in Liferay were dreamt up by the community, and co-developed with Liferay, Inc. employees. Liferay would be foolish to turn its back on what made it in the first place.James Falkner2011-08-16T01:09:10ZRE: What motivates community members in contributing!James Falknerhttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104579152011-08-16T00:54:38Z2011-08-16T00:54:38Z<div class="quote-title">Victor Zorin:</div><blockquote>I was suggesting to use liferay-based survey portlet on one of own sites. Over the last 2 years it was used many times for corporate surveys on Liferay5.2.3 and 6.1. There is not much fun to use someone-else's online capability for needs of a world-leading portal (<img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/smile.gif" >). <br /><br />I think even the fact of using native Liferay survey portlet may also attract more participants. Seeing real-time OOTB and custom applications ticking on Liferay6.1 CE could be another part of community motivation.<br /><br />I have not used surveymonkey, so it would be hard for me to understand effort involved in setting Liferay community survey on it. May be someone else has surveymonkey expertise?</blockquote><br /><br />Oh, I knew you were going to volunteer your services here <img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/happy.gif" > And I wholeheartedly accept <img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/happy.gif" > We (Liferay) have a surveymonkey account where you can create surveys and embed them elsewhere, I was just offering to use that (I've used it a couple of times before), but using CE for a Community survey sounds more inviting and fun :-)James Falkner2011-08-16T00:54:38ZRE: What motivates community members in contributing!Victor Zorinhttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104575412011-08-15T22:38:14Z2011-08-15T22:38:14ZI was suggesting to use liferay-based survey portlet on one of own sites. Over the last 2 years it was used many times for corporate surveys on Liferay5.2.3 and 6.1. There is not much fun to use someone-else's online capability for needs of a world-leading portal (<img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/smile.gif" >). <br /><br />I think even the fact of using native Liferay survey portlet may also attract more participants. Seeing real-time OOTB and custom applications ticking on Liferay6.1 CE could be another part of community motivation.<br /><br />I have not used surveymonkey, so it would be hard for me to understand effort involved in setting Liferay community survey on it. May be someone else has surveymonkey expertise?Victor Zorin2011-08-15T22:38:14ZRE: What motivates community members in contributing!James Falknerhttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104558092011-08-15T20:26:01Z2011-08-15T20:26:01Z<div class="quote-title">Victor Zorin:</div><blockquote>Ok, let's do it (survey), sounds like we have plenty of questions to ask and analyze.<br />By the end of next week we'll put an initial survey based on the above questions and mentioned Alfresco poll. <br /><br />I expect it to be fairly large and people may not be able to answer it in a single go, so based on our experience of doing similar setup, I would suggest to have 2 types of survey initiation: <br />1) Half-anonymous: Participant requests login by supplying email address with subsequent log ins & log outs. Password is generated and emailed. On every login the user will be automatically directed to a last visited section of survey<br />2) Fully-anonymous: Participant starts survey, types answers, then if can not complete entire survey in one go - clicks 'Suspend Survey'. Encrypted file is generated and it shall be saved on participant's desktop/memory stick. To 'Resume' survey, this file shall be uploaded back to survey portlet.<br /><br />It is also very likely that we will have sections and subsections (and may be sub-subsections), I would suggest that we would allow participants to jump from section to section freely.<br /><br />Anyway, I'll post a link when it is ready for commenting on survey design. James, you may want to open a separate thread to discuss structure of survey. This thread is too important to be polluted by technicalities.<br /><br />PS. We'll also put a real-time dashboard for each question that could be charted, even for incomplete surveys.</blockquote><br /><br />Hey Victor, what software and/or site will you use for the survey? It sounds like you have one in mind <img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/happy.gif" > I've also volunteered to use SurveyMonkey.<br /><br />In any case, be aware that really long surveys tend to be ignored too <img alt="emoticon" src="@theme_images_path@/emoticons/happy.gif" > So if it takes an hour to complete, that might be a problem. But let's see what kind of question we can come up with. If you already have an idea of where to host the survey, then we can wait until you get an initial skeleton up and then discuss in a separate thread (feel free to open one once you have something we can all look at and discuss).James Falkner2011-08-15T20:26:01ZRE: What motivates community members in contributing!Victor Zorinhttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104484362011-08-15T06:10:16Z2011-08-15T06:10:16ZOk, let's do it (survey), sounds like we have plenty of questions to ask and analyze.<br />By the end of next week we'll put an initial survey based on the above questions and mentioned Alfresco poll. <br /><br />I expect it to be fairly large and people may not be able to answer it in a single go, so based on our experience of doing similar setup, I would suggest to have 2 types of survey initiation: <br />1) Half-anonymous: Participant requests login by supplying email address with subsequent log ins & log outs. Password is generated and emailed. On every login the user will be automatically directed to a last visited section of survey<br />2) Fully-anonymous: Participant starts survey, types answers, then if can not complete entire survey in one go - clicks 'Suspend Survey'. Encrypted file is generated and it shall be saved on participant's desktop/memory stick. To 'Resume' survey, this file shall be uploaded back to survey portlet.<br /><br />It is also very likely that we will have sections and subsections (and may be sub-subsections), I would suggest that we would allow participants to jump from section to section freely.<br /><br />Anyway, I'll post a link when it is ready for commenting on survey design. James, you may want to open a separate thread to discuss structure of survey. This thread is too important to be polluted by technicalities.<br /><br />PS. We'll also put a real-time dashboard for each question that could be charted, even for incomplete surveys.Victor Zorin2011-08-15T06:10:16ZRE: What Motivates our Community?Jelmer Kuperushttps://liferay.dev/en/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785333&messageId=104422352011-08-13T22:25:00Z2011-08-13T22:25:00ZOk here's my 5 cents<br /><br />I think i can safely say that I fall in the B category but my motivation for participating in the community is quite different. My prime motivation for participating is that i feel it is a necessity for being able to do my job well. Like many opensource projects Liferay is not very well documented and many new features and best practices are discussed in the forum or on the blogs long before they make it to the official documentation. Being active in the community makes sure I stay on top of things<br /> <br />I am not saying that this is my only motivation but it is my prime motivation and I really can't see myself sticking around once i am assigned to